[Feature request] NovelList, local database to register what we read, locally

[Palloxin]

Describe your suggested feature

Premise: the novel subject is vast, and no website encompasses it fully. Novel Updates accepts only asian novels, no western, not even from RoyalRoad, nor real books.

Add a way to record down what we read, in a somehow comfortable way.
It has to be just bare-bone, very very low maintenance, and no shiny sub-feature:

1. + button to add novels specs (use Edit Novel screen window, recycle)
2. A way to add read chapters manually. Also the score from 1 to 100
3. Basic filters to sort and stuff, already present in the app, recycle it.
4. Way to backup it

(maybe this, just as ispiration)

Why

The premise.

Also tier list sharing. In the novel community it's a frequent and popular custom to rec stuff to newbies. But it's roughly made; they don't have a place to record them all (see premise), and frankly... they often forget what they read, especially 'veterans':

It's somehow common.

Other details

A little spark is enough to attract, one day, a dev that likes it, and develop this feature further.
For example, making the local database a secondary library, with entries, covers and all, but without chapters (maybe only with favored chapters saved)

Acknowledgements

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• If this is an issue with a source, I should be opening an issue in the sources repository.
• I have updated the app to version 2.0.0.
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[Palloxin]

I found a funny discord channel where users record their reading progress. Maybe it's that bad.

YouCut_20250124_164712700.mp4

[CD-Z]

I really don't see the point of this. It feels just like redundancy. Why would you want save your progress and novels again parallel to the actual novel and progress?

[Palloxin]

Myanimelist, anilist and many others exist. NU accepts only asian stuff, many other novels missing. And can only rate 1-5.

Yes the app can keep the progress, but it needs an entry and a plugin (or imported epub). Novelist is just little text easily backup-able.

Cab you imagine the flood of entries just to keep the progress as a "marked as read" like on myanimelist?

NovelList can accept anything. The Bible? sure, Mobydick? Your uncle secret book he shared with 4 people? we got it. Every, single, novel.

[CD-Z]

Still I think there aren't many people who would use this inside of LNReader. It would be better to just extend what already exists.

[Palloxin]

NovelList can be added and then extend what already exists into it. Like an automatic infor retrieve from an entry to NovelList, but that is for a future after NovelList implementation