audiobooks: reading progression indicator / icon on cover image in library? #1769
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Currently, we don't have a progression indicator on ebook covers in the library view. I assume that adding a progression indicator for audiobooks should be done at the same time. Let's keep this issue open until we decide to do both. |
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Note that with audiobooks, the “current reading location” which is used to restore the exact audio file + time stamp when a publication is open, can be used to show a global percentage progress overlay on top of the audiobook cover. all the data is here already. with “text” books, global position (or global percentage progression) is not implemented yet (i.e. arbitrary sectioning of html reading order chapters, based on number of bytes per file) |
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also, the most recently recorded “current reading location” for a text book does not necessarily represent the global progress, for example in scholar / scientific papers, or educational textbooks. |
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True. Still, many reading apps give such an information (just checked the Kobo iOS app, where it is expressed as a % ("15% LU")). So your take is that we have the data for audiobooks, but not ebooks at the moment. What we can do: |
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i added a progress indicator in publication Info Dialog only for audiobooks |
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Note: this PR #930 |
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Follow-up to PR #938
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