“I am reading (continued)” is a WordPress plugin to display which book you are currently reading and how far you have already come. It is actually a continuation of the plugin “I am reading”, which stopped working after 15th August 2009, because Amazon implemented a new kind of authentication on that day.
Since the author “mifupa” doesn’t seem to maintain the plugin anymore (both the plugin homepage and his personal one are not available anymore) and I didn’t know how to contact him either, I simply fixed the plugin myself and uploaded it as a new project.
For the end user, only one thing has changed: If you want to use Amazon as data source, you must now enter your “Amazon Secret Key” in addition to your “Access Key”. You can find out your key here.
Update (October 29, 2009)
Good news! The original author of the plugin “I am reading”, Dominik Hanke, has contacted me and asked me if I would like to add my updated version, which I had first uploaded as a new project “I am reading (continued)”, to his original project. That will also make things easier for the many users who still have the old version of the plugin installed – this way they will be notified in the WordPress backend that a new version is available at last.
Thus I recommend everyone who already has installed my “continued” version to download the plugin from here again sooner or later. At the moment, the version there is just the same that you are using now, but any future updates will be published there, so as long as you are using my “continued” version, you will not be informed automatically in the WordPress backend.
I very much apologize for this little chaos, but this way it is definitely better for the future. :)
Update (January 12, 2010)
Further information about the plugin is available here.
Update (August 29, 2011)
Once again, the plugin has been abandoned by all authors. Once again, its website has disappeared from the web, and once again, it’s no longer available on the WordPress plugin page. Hence, I took care of it again and uploaded it under the name of “I am reading (continued)” yet another time.
Further information about the plugin is available here.
22 responses to “I am reading (continued)”
First of all, I love the little progress bar that shows how much of the book has been read. Such a great idea!
Two “wish list” items that would make this plugin even better:
Is there any way to list more than one book at once with this plugin (i.e., I am right now reading 5 books simultaneously).
Also, I would love to see the ability to track completion dates and past books that I’ve read.
Hello!
I’m afraid it’s not possible to display more than one book at once at the moment. On one hand, your suggestions are good and would indeed improve the plugin. But on the other hand, the plugin has originally been written by Dominik Hanke, because he had been looking for a very simple “book reading plugin”, and found that the other ones that were available had more functions than he really wanted and needed. So it would kind of miss the point, if all that stuff would be added. ;)
Then again, he is planning to work on the plugin and add more features. So I will just tell him your suggestions, and we’ll see where it leads. :)
However, there is an addon that might be exactly what you are looking for: Now Reading Reloaded. You can set up a whole library there by entering current books, finished books and planned books.
I am having a problem getting the plug-in to work. I have deleted and installed it four times now and anytime I try to get to the settings page for the plug-in I get the following:
Warning: file_get_contents(http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?AWSAccessKeyId=admin&AssociateTag=&IdType=ISBN&ItemId=9780618391110&Operation=ItemLookup&ResponseGroup=Medium&SearchIndex=Books&Service=AWSECommerceService&Timestamp=2009-11-07T16%3A21%3A51Z&Version=2009-03-31&Signature=eYkhcVr4zVuzsSrSISZuVVmD2JIQ2XlIF3MpCXYAWVI%3D) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden in /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.awsBooks.php on line 118
Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘String could not be parsed as XML’ in /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.awsBooks.php:136 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.awsBooks.php(136): SimpleXMLElement->__construct(”) #1 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.iAmReading.php(393): awsBooks->getBook() #2 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.iAmReading.php(295): iAmReading->setBookCache() #3 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/i-am-reading-admin.php(30): iAmReading->getBook() #4 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-admin/admin.php(105): include(‘/var/www/html/c…’) #5 /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-admin/options-general.php(10): require_once(‘/var/www/html/c…’) #6 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/ca/camelblog.com/wp-content/plugins/i-am-reading/includes/class.awsBooks.php on line 136
Help!!
Sevvy
For some reason, you seem to have entered “admin” as your Amazon Access key. The quickest way to resolve this: Disable the plugin again, then use phpMyAdmin to go into your wordpress database and just DELETE the whole
wp_iar_configtable. Enable the plugin again and start from a fresh installation.This time, take care: If you have set your browser to store passwords, it will again try to fill out the fields with “admin” and a wrong password! Put your Access and Secret Keys here instead.
Thanks SO much for the information. I just realized something – there is no way to have this show up sans sidebar widget is there? My template is not widget enabled, so I want to make sure I am not missing a code that I CAN use.
I’m not sure if I understand you right – you mean you want to put the code directly in your template? If so, try this:
if(function_exists('iar_print_html')) iar_print_html();You are a goddess! Danke.
Hallöchen
Genau dieses Plugin habe ich gesucht :-)
Tja… in den Pluginordner geladen… aktiviert.. und nun…. jetzt wird mir angezeigt:
I am reading: PHP Version 5.2 or higher is required!
Kannst Du mir da jetzt helfen?
Bin aber noch eine Anfängerin .. naja.. ein paar Sachen kann ich schon ;-)
LG.. Kirsten
Also, das bedeutet, daß Dein Webserver im Moment auf einer niedrigeren PHP-Version als 5.2 läuft. Das Plugin benötigt aber mindestens 5.2. Wenn ich das richtig sehe, bist Du bei all-inkl.com? Wenn ja, dann kannst Du das mithilfe einer
.htaccess-Datei ändern, wie es hier beschrieben ist.Danke schön für Deine Hilfe..
Jau.. bin ich … werde mir das sofort angucken und dann versuchen hinzubekommen ;-)
LG… Kirsten