DNF Stats skewed by edition swapping | Requests/Ideas

I really love all of the new stats options that just got added, and I'm particularly intrigued by the DNF stats. Mine are a little bit skewed by the inclusion of what I don't really consider to be "true" DNFs. I have a lot of different scenarios where I swap editions of a book while I'm reading it. Some examples: I started listening to an audiobook and didn't jive with the narrator so I just fully swap to an ebook; I start listening, get a little lost, catch up with the ebook, and then go back to the audiobook after I've caught up; etc. I track these edition switches because I want to get credit for the pages and minutes that I listen to, and then I have to mark the unfinished edition as DNF even though I've finished the book, otherwise it would either languish in Currently Reading or I'd lose credit for the pages/minutes I logged. To me, a DNF is a book that I start, regardless of edition, and decide to abandon and not complete, so it always feels a little odd to mark these editions as DNF and leave in the explanation "didn't finish this one but I did finish a different edition", and now having those mixed in with "true" DNFs feels like it is muddling my stats. I'd love an option for "don't include this in stats", because I imagine that a blanket "don't include a DNF in stats if another edition is Finished" would mess up someone else's desired stats.

Comments

bookcasey

Jun 1, 2023

I agree it could be easier to swap between formats in one read through, but swapping editions seems to work for me, and I’m not getting the issue you seem to be having with currently reading.
I start with one format and use “switch editions” each time I change formats, to get the pages vs. minutes tracking. At the end, whatever format edition I’m currently in, I click “mark as finish” and it finishes as I would expect. I don’t end up with another format left in my current reading.
Are you separately starting two different editions?

jaina8851

Jun 3, 2024

bookcasey This is from a year ago 🙈 and I found this while searching the roadmap posts for something else, but for completion's sake, the reason why I start two editions as that I usually need to re-read a section rather than doing an immersive experience liked you're describing. I'll start an audiobook, get 15% of the way in, and realize "oh crap, I have no idea what is happening." So I'll then start an ebook edition and re-read that same chunk, and I want the pages to count. Then I'll pick back up with the audiobook, and maybe at some point, the same thing will happen again. This is how I end up with two editions that I need to clear out of my "currently reading", because I am actually sort of reading both separately, but I don't want these DNFs to be included in my stats at all.