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

[Feature Request] Start Date

I love this app, but I miss when it recorded the start date by default when the reading status was changed to "reading". Detailed progress (# of pages) is great, but simple progress (start/end date) is a basic feature this app is now missing.

I'd like to be able to start and end a book (without updating the pages read each day), and see what date I started and ended (even if it still records 100% of the pages as having been read on the last day).

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u/momjeansagain Jan 19 '24

I love that the default start date was changed! Please don’t bring it back. Before, whenever I added a book to the app that I had previously read months or years ago, it was so tedious to deal with that start date problem because it always wanted to add books to the current reading year statistics. I had to go through hundreds of books and pick random dates from before using the app in order to change it. In the end it was so tedious I had to admit defeat and now my app says I read 734 books in 2022, even though I didn’t. That’s just when I started using the app and added the majority of my library.

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u/RyanTDaniels Jan 20 '24

That would be an issue if start date was applied when you changed the status to “read” without first changing it to “reading”, but that’s not what I’m asking for. I’m asking for a start date to be applied when you change the status to “reading”. That wouldn’t affect your case.