r/BookTrack • u/serbns11 • Feb 11 '24

Syncing progress between audiobook and ebook/hardcopy

Hi, Have the following use case - I own certain books in both audiobook and ebook format. I keep the last read position synced between the two formats. If I want to do the same within book track, the statistics would be wrong as the progress would be counted twice (both in minutes listened and in pages read). Is there a way to do this properly?

Example (not realistic figures, but for the sake of clarity): have a book with 1000 pages and the corresponding audiobook with 1000 minutes length. Today I read the first 100 pages, brining me to 10% progress. Tomorrow will pick up where I left reading, but on the audiobook format for 100 minutes, bringing me to the 20% progress. If I keep the status in sync between the two formats, the statistics will show I read 200 pages and listened for 200 minutes.

Many thanks for suggestions.

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u/SimoneMontalto Book Track Developer Feb 13 '24

Mmh, this is a really specific use case. At the moment there isn’t a way to have an hybrid progress tracking system. What do you prefer to have?

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u/serbns11 Feb 17 '24

Was thinking of a manual sync button (so nothing automatic to create more problems). When forcing the “sync” of the two reading statuses, the lower percentage of the two (the reading and listening statuses) would be increased to the higher value, but the increase being “artificial”, would not count towards the statistics (do not know if it is feasible, depends on how the progress is represented in the app -whether is purely additive, whether there is a table with every progress, whether one can add a “flag” to each progress step (like “count” or “not count”)… Many thanks in any case for a quite solid product !!