Search "Reading Status" in Library

Bobby Bosler

I know that there are ways to search for specific columns in your library (and thus to filter collections by these) using the parameters in the Wiki, but I have not seen nor been able to figure out the attribute by which to search for "Reading Status" in my library. To clarify, I mean the circle with the visual representation of how much I've read. (e.g., "You've read 19% of this resource.")

I would imagine that a search field exists for this, because if I click on the column header "Reading Status", it groups them according to "Reading", "Finished", and "Unread." I searched the wiki for the attribute name, but could find nothing on it. Perhaps it does not exist?

I'd like to create a Collection using those parameters, to help keep track of what I'd like to read and what I have read already, but I don't know the syntax of the search to move forward with this idea. Can anyone help me?

MJ. Smith

I believe that you can sort on the field and select the groups and save as a collection. It is not dynamic. You'll have to keep it up manually.

Bobby Bosler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813470#Comment_813470

Ah, so at this point, there is no Library Filter Field for reading status. I was really hoping for something dynamic.

I've tried a dozen variations (mystatus, status, readstatus, readingstatus, etc.), but none work. Perhaps a FL employee can verify that such a field does not exist, lest I continue to stab at the dark in vain.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813472#Comment_813472

Bobby Bosler said:

Perhaps a FL employee can verify that such a field does not exist, lest I continue to stab at the dark in vain.

Perhaps, but the purpose of the forums is for users to help users. You may check Library Filter Fields in Help to confirm the field does not exist as a filterable item.

You could search the forums and find the following post on the topic TIP of the day: Library filters

Or you can hope that a Faithlife employee confirms the information above.

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813484#Comment_813484

Hi Bobby, I don't know of a way to use reading status as a collection rule either. I wonder, however, if your goal is to keep track of what you have read or are reading, why sorting the library according to reading status does not do the trick for you. When you sort it and get finished, reading, or unread, you can look under each category what titles it contains. Is that not sufficient to keep track of what one has read?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/813488#Comment_813488

Or a common solution is to tag books as read, unread, and to be read.

GregW

I just searched to see how to filter on Reading Status for a Collection rule, and in case anyone else finds this thread in future, you can now do it. There are details here: https://app.logos.com/books/LLS%3ALOGOS4HELP_VERBUM/headwords/Print%20Library%20Catalog?headwordLanguage=en

If you want the short version, use {ReadingStatus x} where x can be New, Unread, Reading, or Finished. So my Collection rule for reading for 2025 is:

MyTag:2025-reading AND MyTag:#ReadLater -{ReadingStatus Finished}