[Alexandria-list] Add a feature: "Read at ...."

[Cathal Mc Ginley]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 02:00 +0200, Fatih Arslan wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've installed Alexandria and i like it very much. However there is a 
> feature that i'm missing. I'm reading every 3-4 days on book, and i 
> write the date down when i read that. It is possible to add a small date 
> function next to "Read it?" box. It would be nice to list the books due 
> the read date.

This is a feature releated to "reading management" which has been brought
up before. It's certainly something that's on the to-do list for future
releases (possibly in the 0.7 series) after we get the 0.6.2 release stable.
It will be very useful to have a large set of "use cases" like this to inform
the requirements for the upcoming design phase.

In the mean time, you can always add this kind of information informally
in the Notes section of each book. If you make the note semi-formal,
like "[finished-reading:2007-11-10]" then in the future - if Alexandria
ever does support a 'finished-reading date' - it will be possible to
extract the information from the notes programmatically (by writing a
ruby script) and update your books.

(Obviously, we don't know if any new version of Alexandria will support
a given feature, or how easy it will be to extract information out of
notes - but I can say that it's the kind of thing I'm considering for
forthcoming versions of Alexandria: making it easy to write scripts
which update your books in this kind of way. In any case, you'll at
least have the information stored!)

> 
> Thanks in advance
> Regards Fatih Arslan

I noticed your bug report too, by the way (#15510). I can see *where*
the problem is, but I don't know why it's happening yet. I may have to
ask you to run a couple of test ruby-gnome2 scripts... I'll hack them up
tomorrow.

   -   Cathal.

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