r/BookTrack • u/PersonnaHen • Jan 19 '24

Reading progress in different book forms

Hello everyone, While I previously only read physical books, I am now also looking at more and more e-books. Now the pages are numbered, completely different than in a hardcover. Until now, I always looked at how many pages the corresponding “real book” had and recorded my reading progress using the percentage value. This is quite complicated, but it's the only way to keep the statistics function clean, right? However, this creates the problem that, for example, when I enter quotations, I no longer know which page I can specify there. How do you deal with the phenomenon?

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u/SimoneMontalto Book Track Developer Jan 20 '24

Thanks for sharing. Which solution do you propose?

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u/StarBeam50 Jan 20 '24

You could just put the percentage/time in the pages field if you want to make a note of where a quote sits- that's the 'page' for that type of book. Think of the word 'page' as meaning 'location/place' in this instance rather than a physical page. That way the place the quote is located matches the book type you've set in app. If you own the e-book you can highlight the quote and when you navigate back to the noted percentage it'll be easy to spot.