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Count pages towards goal without adding book
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ahousemanDec 18, 2022
Don’t know if this is technically possible, but it would be great to have the option of adding pages towards the pages goal, without having to add the book and then DNF-ing eg if I’m reading an essay from a collection, but not reading or re-reading the whole book, it would be great to add those x amount of pages towards the goal
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Super helpful for anthologies and textbook reading as well. I don't want to 'DNF' the book, and I don't want to count it toward my stats as completed because I didn't read the whole book, but maybe if there was a status for 'Partial' or something similar for books we've partially read but did not read every single page of?
In this case I usually want to log that I've read pages 13-28, 37-44, 86-93, 106-143, 197-199, 209-213, etc.
Maybe a solution to this would be allowing us to add reading journal entries to books we have not marked as 'Read' and we can go in and update the page range? Not sure...
This would also be very useful for the following use case:
I read audiobooks together with my partner over speakers. Sometimes my mind drifts while I am listening and I want to re-read a chapter we've already listened to with my eyes. Currently, I have to "start reading" a different edition, log the pages, and then mark the digital edition as DNF. This leads to me having a bunch of things erroneously in my DNF list once I finish listening to the audiobook, since I only want the book counted as "read" once. This workflow is also clunky for the exact reason mentioned here, which is that it is very cumbersome to log "I read pages 100-150" without also logging the previous 100 pages into the journal.
jaina8851 I have a similar use case! Sometimes I’ll switch between the audio and digital version of a book depending on what else is going on at the time. I usually just log it as whichever version I used for the majority of the book, but it would be cool to be able to more precisely log which format I used when (while still only getting credit for reading it one time)