Finish/improve Reading Timeline

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Finish/improve Reading Timeline

1_Zoe_
Mar 24, 2015, 8:32 am

http://www.librarything.com/lttl/

Again, I can't seem to find a thread about this ancient issue. I'd particularly like to be able to filter by just books read, rather than showing everything I've catalogued as well.

In the current form, there's also a problem with vertical scrolling (i.e., it needs to be done because some items display below the visible region, but there's no way to do it).

But basically the whole thing should be reworked.

2AnnaClaire
Mar 24, 2015, 5:57 pm

I haven't had this work for a while. It gives me popups, first a "Caught exception: TypeError: elmt is undefined" with an <OK>, then the same thing with an additional checkbox.

At one point it was short of wonderful, but at least at that point it wasn't broken. I wouldn't mind seeing this functional again -- it would be even better to make it more useful.

3krazy4katz
Mar 24, 2015, 9:24 pm

Oh yeah! I forgot about that. It was really an interesting idea.

4lorax
Mar 25, 2015, 3:13 pm

It works for me, but I do not use reading dates, so it's just using date entered. It does take a very long time to load, and there are little broken-image icons in the hoverover that are probably supposed to be bookcovers, so it's not wholly un-broken, but not totally broken either.

5norabelle414
Mar 25, 2015, 3:17 pm

It has not worked at all for me since the reading dates were revamped a couple years ago. I get the same error as >2 AnnaClaire: .

6saltmanz
Mar 25, 2015, 3:18 pm

In Win7/Chrome I get two instances of a "Caught exception: TypeError: Cannot read property 'style' of undefined" error, and then a completely blank graph.

But even when it "worked" it was a mess. I could certainly get behind a new-and-improved version.

7Petroglyph
Mar 26, 2015, 10:18 pm

+1

I would love for this feature to become operational!

8kristilabrie
Jun 23, 2015, 4:38 pm

we'll need to look at Reading Dates and get those situated before we can look at this RSI. I've marked this one in my big RSI list, but it's being deferred for now. Keep bugging us about this one in the future!

9_Zoe_
Jun 23, 2015, 4:45 pm

What's happening with reading dates in general?

10bernsad
Edited: Jun 25, 2015, 12:01 am

>9 _Zoe_: Generally they're getting older.

11fvenez
Jul 16, 2021, 7:36 am

Has there been any update with this? I would love to have a nice timeline showing visually my books arranged for reading dates.
For a while there was an (experimental?) page at http://www.librarything.com/lttl/ but now it stopped working. Are there new plans of implementing this feature?