Kobo Reading Stats Visualisation

I read almost exclusively on my Kobo e-reader. The reader captures some stats about your reading progress, but they don’t really tell you about your reading as a whole. However, the databases that the kobo uses to track progress are accessible when you plug the device into a computer (they’re just in a hidden folder).

Out of curiousity, I built a simple script and web app that downloads the data from the database, dumps it into a csv file and then has d3.js produce a simple web-page of progress.

The visualisation is pretty basic at present but the data is accumulating. I’d like to build another version with some slightly more original visuals and some more advanced filtering.