I started using the Loan Manager on the Web interface as a way of tracking what I ‘loaned out’ to myself for reading. (This was an improvement over using an “Out for Reading” tag, since the Mobile only lets you either add a Tag or remove all Tags, unlike the Web interface which lets you selectively Remove one tag. I use tags for other purposes, so this isn’t a great option it turns out.)
I was surprised to find the Mobile app does not support using Loan Manager.
Requesting either Loan Manager added to Mobile, or a suggestion of an alternate approach to tracking that doesn’t involve tags. What do other people use, if anything?
Mobile app doesn’t have a loan manager. It has been asked before for books/music/movies, but for games/comics we don’t see a lot of users using it anyway.
But… let’s take a few steps back, I think you’re rather looking for something that marks a comic as “you’re reading it now”? (let’s not build a loan manager in CLZ Comics Mobile so it can be used for “status: reading” or something )
How come tags aren’t a great option? Can you be a bit more specific about that so I can understand and maybe think of something else?
I can’t remove just one tag, and I don’t know what other tags may be applied without checking each one.
I can remove just one tag at a time by editing each issue in turn, but bulk editing of tags on mobile doesn’t have the same level of control as on the web, where I can specify removing a tag during bulk edits.
So, I’m back to doing the task on the web interface, at which point I can use the Loan Manager anyway.
Tags would be useful for this task (and many more I wager) if the bulk editing capability were brought in line with the web interface.
Honestly, I figured that adding the Loan Manager would be the least intrusive out of the choices of that, reworking the tags bulk editor on Mobile to make it easy to navigate on the smaller screen with less precise tap targets, or adding an all-new ‘Reading’ field.
… or… heh. Make Read a three-value field, of No, Reading, Yes instead of a simple boolean…
I leave it to the good folks there to decide how to implement it, I’m out of wacky ideas. XD
I see. Yeah to do it on the web interface is your best bet.
We do have it on our ideas list, and probably it will happen to:
have those same edit multiple options on Web to be on Mobile too
to expand the “read it” field into “reading” or “how many times read” or even more information (who read it, which page are you at (although I would recommend using an actual bookmark in your book ) etc.
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