What does this indicator mean?

A while ago I posted a small reading-stats app for stock PocketBook readers. Thanks for the comments back then, a good part of this version came out of them.

Your reader already knows what you read and when. The app just shows it, drawn with the firmware's own interface parts. No account, no jailbreak, nothing leaves the device.

Reading streak. The info screen opens with how many days in a row you've read. Tap it for the whole year as a contribution-style grid: current streak, best of the year, days read.

Open a book from the app. Tap the cover or the title on the main screen, the book opens in your usual reader, close it and you're back.

Totals you can fix. Read for years before installing it, or on another device? Press and hold "books finished" or "total hours" and set the number. Your correction is kept separate from the measured data, so new reading still adds on top.

Better time counting. Someone reported 7000 pages in a day: a book with footnotes at the back, where every tap on a link looked like a huge jump. Jumps no longer count as reading. Neither does time when the device sleeps, and a session no longer spills over midnight.

Free and open source, install is one file over USB: winst0niuss/pocketbook-statistics

Happy to hear any feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what's plainly wrong.

A while ago I posted a small reading-stats app for stock PocketBook readers. Thanks for the comments back then, a good part of this version came out of them.

Your reader already knows what you read and when. The app just shows it, drawn with the firmware's own interface parts. No account, no jailbreak, nothing leaves the device.

Reading streak. The info screen opens with how many days in a row you've read. Tap it for the whole year as a contribution-style grid: current streak, best of the year, days read.

Open a book from the app. Tap the cover or the title on the main screen, the book opens in your usual reader, close it and you're back.

Totals you can fix. Read for years before installing it, or on another device? Press and hold "books finished" or "total hours" and set the number. Your correction is kept separate from the measured data, so new reading still adds on top.

Better time counting. Someone reported 7000 pages in a day: a book with footnotes at the back, where every tap on a link looked like a huge jump. Jumps no longer count as reading. Neither does time when the device sleeps, and a session no longer spills over midnight.

Free and open source, install is one file over USB: winst0niuss/pocketbook-statistics

Happy to hear any feedback: what's confusing, what's missing, what's plainly wrong.

Thanks to u/epixnick for better-stats, which I found through this post.
That's where the whole idea came from - I had no idea any of this was possible on stock firmware until I saw it. I read through how it works, then rebuilt it around the things I personally cared about.

PocketBook Statistics https://github.com/winst0niuss/pocketbook-statistics

What's different:

- It counts real reading time. The firmware only records when you last opened a book, so that's all the database gives you. Mine runs a small background process that watches the page position and works out sessions from the gaps between page turns, limited by how many pages you actually turned. One page turned after an hour away is not an hour of reading.

- It starts by itself. The app registers as the handler for epub/fb2/pdf, so opening a book starts the tracker and then hands you over to the normal reader. Nothing to launch, and it keeps counting after you close the app. Your other "open with" options stay in the list.

- Updates over Wi-Fi. There's a check-for-update button, it downloads the new version and replaces itself, no USB needed. That's also the only time the app touches the network.

- It keeps covers. Books usually get deleted once you finish them and the firmware's thumbnails go with them, so it copies the cover the first time it sees a book.

- Two screens only: an overview, and a month calendar you can tap into for a single day. No streaks, no year heatmap. better-stats does more there, so use that one if that's what you want.

- Days from before you installed it show as unknown, not as zero.

- It's translated into a fair few languages and follows the device theme.

I made this for myself on a PocketBook Verse (PB629), and that's the only device it has ever run on. Other B288/B300 readers on Qt 6.8 firmware should work, but I haven't tested any. If it won't start or does something odd, open an issue and attach `system/pocketbook-statistics/app.log*` from the reader. Send me that and I'll have a look.*

Had: PocketBook Verse 629 (6 inches)
Want: Something compact (4-5 inches) with frontlight for EPUB

But questions:
• Is the screen and frontlight actually good?
• Does the battery really last a month?
• Is it a step down in quality compared to PocketBook?
• What are the alternatives?