This post has been merged into Buddy read comment page numbers changing
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Buddy read pages are always wrong
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inaliterarymood

When I add a new comment to my buddy read with the page number, it always shows up wrong in the actual comment. For example, I wanted to comment on something from page 61 of a book but it put page 63. This has been happening for awhile.

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Nadia
Apr 3, 2023

Merging into this post, which explains what is happening: https://roadmap.thestorygraph.com/bugs/posts/buddy-read-comment-page-numbers-changing

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inaliterarymood
Apr 3, 2023

Nadia my friend and I are both reading the same edition of the book. We had this same issue when we read Bloodmarked back in November.

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Nadia
Apr 3, 2023

inaliterarymood Yes, the page numbers being out of sync will still happen because of this part of my response in the other thread:

"Despite all this, the pages shown are meant to be an approximate guideline for the comment. When you input a page number, we don't store the page because people read different editions/switch editions, etc., so we store the percentage only and translate it back into a page number. Depending on how big a book is, given you can't have fractional pages, a particular percent can represent a range of pages."

I'm not sure whether we want to start storing the actual page number input against a buddy read comment — that will come with its own complications, including if people make mistakes, switch editions mid buddy read, which people do regularly, etc. — but it's something we're considering.

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