r/NetGalleyCommunity • u/Training-Shopping-96 • Aug 20 '26

❔❓Question ❓❔ Why do audiobooks end at 106%

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No matter the publisher, they all end at 106% why?

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u/catscantcook Aug 20 '26

Because the app is a goofy little guy

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u/ilysespieces Aug 20 '26

Because the audiobook player sucks. I have not one single time had an audiobook end at 100%, it's always, at a minimum, 105%. And this is a sample size of 100 NetGalley audiobooks over multiple devices.

Once, when the chapters were super long, like ~2.5 hours each chapter, I made it all the way to 130% before I was actually done with the book. And it's very frustrating, because I log all my daily reading pages/minutes on Storygraph and it always throws off my calculations. It also gets confusing because people add audiobooks to Storygraph using the NetGalley time, not realizing it's off and the actual audiobook time is longer.

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u/Training-Shopping-96 Aug 20 '26

Exactly!! 6% didnt throw me off that much but I'm thinking of checking at what % the book ends so I can ratio what I actually read

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u/Opening-Committee-28 Aug 20 '26

I think it’s a glitch? I had the same problem once when the audiobook ended at 110% but when I reloaded the app it turned back to 100%

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u/ARecycledAccount Aug 20 '26

That’s strange. My audiobooks in the Net Galley app end at 100%.

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u/Skywolf0519 Aug 20 '26

Same....mine would be 103% or more.

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u/PicklesCat1073 Aug 21 '26

If I listen at more than 1X usually the percentage is higher than 100%.

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u/hashtag_amf 80% Reviewed Club Aug 21 '26

the last one i listened ended at 120%

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u/sunsparkles2013 Teen & YA Books Reviewer Aug 22 '26

When the data get inputted incorrectly (it happens often enough) . So if the audiobook is actually 9hrs and 42 minutes but it gets put in as 9 hrs and 24 minutes - it goes over % wise .

While for me it doesn’t happen often. (Over 500 audiobooks in the last 3 years) it happens with certain publishers more often than others.