My partner just asked me "when did we read Children of Time?" I knew I obvs had that info in StoryGraph and thought it would be easy to find. Instead, it took me multiple minutes to find the answer. I think this was made more difficult because I currently have a paperback edition of this book Paused, and we had read the audiobook, but I just want to explain all of the steps that I had to go through to find the answer. I put numbers on the screenshots in case they get uploaded out of order.

0. Search for Children of Time. Unsurprisingly, this brought me to the Paused edition, since that was the most recent one that I interacted with.

1. Go to the Editions page for the book.

2. I scrolled down through the editions. Every single one of them says "You've paused reading another edition" despite the fact that I ALSO "have read" another edition. Additionally, all of them say "5.0 ⭐ see review". I scroll to the first audio version, thinking this was the one I had read. I completely missed the fact that the "to read" button was still visible on that edition until I was writing this up.

3. Click through. Nope, this isn't the edition I read, apparently.

4. I decide to filter by Audio to see if that helps. Now, strangely (though helpfully), the repeated "You've paused reading another edition" and "5.0 ⭐ see review" annotations are gone. I still have to scroll down through the list to find what I hope is the edition I actually read.

5. Finally, I have landed on the actual book with my data and I'm able to drill into the menus to find the answer, since I read this book multiple times, and the Finished date isn't the one I was looking for.

This was a LOT of steps, with a lot of confusing and inconsistent UX in the meantime. I just double checked, and the edition that I have paused does say "You have read this book 2 times", but that isn't clickable, and there is no way to get a consolidated view into read dates.

What I really would love, when I do finish the paperback (hopefully before he puts out the next book next month 🤞), is for it to be easy to see all three of these reads in one place. It would be really cool to be able to click "You have read this book 3 times" and see:

Mar 2019 🎧
Dec 2019 🎧
2/2/25-2/5/26 📖

But more generally, I just find the editions page incredibly difficult to use with the recent changes to show everything on every edition. I understand why that change was made, and I know it helps certain use cases, but it makes other ones really difficult.