I sometimes have a book in my collection, that when I go to read it - I find it so incredably boring (or whatever thing is wrong with it) that I just can’t finish reading it.
I would love to see a radio button added to the ‘Read it’ section so that you could choose, Y, N or DNF.
When I have one of these books I always have to think about how far I got through the book - was it less than half? was it more than half? If it was less than half - did I still spend a considerable amount of time TRYING to read it???
Clicking on the currently available options (yes or no) is too binary for this kind of situation. Neither is exactly true - nor are they exactly false!
Because I also keep track of how many books I read in a year (and how many pages that adds up to each year) I usually end up clicking yes - but I think a DNF radio button would adress the issue quite nicely!
Yeah I like this idea. We are playing around with the idea of multiple read it (and seen it) dates… or for books start date/end date so you can track how long you’ve taken to read it, stuff like that.
So glad you like it! I like tracking how long it takes to read. That would be a fun stat to have. Though to be honest, I don’t know if I would use that feature because that would mean adding a start date, end date (and possibly a read date?). Or I guess the end date would be the read date? Though if this feature were available maybe when I am retired (10+ years) this would be something fun to track in my dotage.
But ooh… what do you mean by seen it date? I see my books every day! Not sure I want to track that
This sounds great to me as well. There are some books that I go back to because I can’t decide on what I want to read next. Would love to have multiple Read It dates.
Please add me to the group that favor a “DNF” radio button.
Or possibly a “slider” that would display a rough percentage of the portion read? The “slider” default value would be zero; any increase would force the DNF button to “YES” until the slider is set to 100, which would then force the DNF button to “NO.” The radio button could be used independently of the “slider,” although setting the button to “YES” would have to correspondingly set the “slider” to at least “1” for consistency.
This business about a radio button to indicate “Did Not Finish” got me thinking about the many volumes in my collection that aren’t really meant to be read cover-to-cover, in the normal sense of the term “read.” These would be the Reference books – true reference items like dictionaries or travel guides or encyclopedias – but also books which are not written in standard prose style but rather sort of tabulate information about the general subject: almost dictionaries, but not quite.
A radio button identify this sort of thing would, I think, be quite useful. Yes, one might achieve the desired result by manipulating the values of “GENRE” or “SUBJECT” but since would be rather like mixing the apples with the oranges, it could compromise the value of those fields. Also, establishing a value in TAGS to represent a book of this type might work, but a TAG setting would not necessarily be displayed with or near the valued for “READ” and “READ DATE.”
I’m not sure about percentage read - but like which page you stopped, comparing to how many page a book has would be cool.
Also for “read it yes/no” I definitely do think a “did not finish” or “dropped” indeed has a place on the ideas list (it is there) and I’ve taken note of your comments.
As for reference books I’m inclined to stick with the tag solution that it is a reference book - not a new “read it: no because it is a reference book” option to be honest (it feels like that would just be too many options for a read it field - but again, I’ve taken note of your idea).
As to the reference book thing, I track my books in tags for Novel, Anthology, Omnibus, etc. It displays 3 lines down from Read It under Personal Details.
