Feature Request: Allow users to upload highlights from store-bought books selectively

[KlfJoat]

I have an interesting situation. At least 4 of my purchased books are no longer available on the Kobo site under the ID that I purchased them. Let's just talk about one as an example.

This means that, in my web browser, I see the book on Kobo.com's online Books list. I can even use "Read Now" to read the book online. But if I try to View Details of the book, it gives me a 404 error. I searched for the book and it's there--but it has a different URL now (the number at the end of the URL has incremented from 6 to 9; nice) and a different cover image. But the ISBN listed is the same.

Whatever they've done behind the scenes has the effect that the Readwise Kobo sync doesn't see the book for syncing highlights. And October ignores the book because it's store-bought since the October store-bought option is all-or-nothing.

So my only current option seems to be to 'liberate' the DRMed book from Kobo, hope the highlights stay, and use October to sync it.

However, that's a lot of extra work. And I would like to keep the book as 'native' as possible. I'd like to be able to use October to select one or more store-bought books INDIVIDUALLY for highlight syncing. That way I won't run into duplicate highlights.

I'm sure that other users may find syncing highlights from individual store-bought books to be useful as well. So while it's a niche problem that is prompting this feature request, the feature itself would be applicable to more than just me.

[marcus-crane]

Heya,

Thanks for the feedback! I'd consider this as part of #45 (but solving a different issue) which requires a bit of a UI rework so it's marked for an eventual v2.

I imagine there'd be a sort of basic and advanced mode where the UI defaults to a similar view as how October currently works but then allows dropping down into more manual handling of titles (particularly for error fixing as currently titles are batched and one failure means the whole thing doesn't work)

[KlfJoat]

Ah. I promised I looked for an existing Issue. But I was focused on store-bought books. :-)

I agree, something that lets users select across all books on the device would be perfect. Bonus if you could separate them. I envision a tree list with 2 top categories--store-bought and side-loaded. When we switch over from Basic to Advanced it reflects the settings as they currently are. Then a user could check a box next to "Store Bought" to select all store-bought (or side-loaded) and unselect individual books; or vise versa.

I guess you can close this one and I'll subscribe to #45.

[marcus-crane]

No worries, when I wrote that original issue, I don't think there was even a distinction between store-bought and side-loaded books.

That pretty much sounds like what I had in mind (and hopefully it doesn't turn into a mess of complexity haha).

I'll close this issue and add more info to the existing one