Detailed festest/slowest stats & faster book duplication

[cosmobooker]

I have a few suggestions for OpenReads.

1. More Accurate "Fastest/Slowest Read Book" Statistic

I think it would make more sense to take this measurement from the number of pages read per day rather than the shortest number of days to read a book.

For instance, if I read two books in a single day, the first being 50 pages and the second being 150 pages, OpenReads only marks whichever book was completed first as the "fastest" book read. Just the same if I read a 500 page book in two days vs a 100 page book in one day, OpenReads would say the 100 page book was read "faster".

You could add a new statistic of "Most Pages Read per Day" or something if you didn't want to replace the existing statistic.

2. Default "owned" Tag

The default "owned" tag doesn't seem necessary. I don't think it makes sense to have it automatically added to each book entry I create as I'll often add books that I plan to read and thus have to manually remove this tag each time.

3. Ability to Replicate Books from Edit Menu

It would be convenient to be able to replicate/duplicate a book entry from the pencil edit menu (long-press to select, pencil, duplicate).

4. Add a Field for Purchase Price

Since this app operates as a de facto personal library management app, it seems useful to have a field for each entry that tracks the purchase date and price for each book. This could tie into the statistics page and show users data on how much they've spent on books this year or in total, for example.

Thanks for all that you do, this app is very useful to a lot of people.

[mateusz-bak]

Hello @cosmobooker thanks for the ideas!

1. Yeah that could be implemented as a more detailed statistic.
2. You can remove it in app's setttings
3. I think it could work - if one book is selected then the duplicate button is showed.
4. This will be possible as a custom value as proposed in Add custom values #709

[cosmobooker]

For no. 2, I'm unable to find anything in the Settings menu related to tags. Am I just blind/dumb?

[ikanakova]

Settings - Books section - Default tags for new books (Openreads version 2.11.0).

[cosmobooker]

Settings - Books section - Default tags for new books (Openreads version 2.11.0).

Ahh, I'm still on 2.10, I'll update. Thanks!

[cosmobooker]

F-Droid failed to auto-update me to 2.11, but I was able to do it manually, weird. Anyway, I didn't realize the app had changed so much. I do have a new suggestion though:

5. Swipe Between Book List Pages

When presented with the new layout for 2.11.0, I instinctively tried swiping between the different pages but this did not work. I think this would be a good feature as the swipe action isn't being used for any other reason that I can see.

[mateusz-bak]

Thanks, this is proposed already in #826 . In short it was removed when the tabs were redesigned but will be restored as the feature is missed.

If you have more ideas please open another discussion so we can focus one topic per one discussion.