This is another reason Logos shouldn't automatically track reading progress:
Logos messed up its own index by tracking my act of configuring the Info of books.
So now I have no ability to divide what I'm reading and what I'm not reading.
Also, do we "read" dictionaries like a novel? Other reference books? No, we don't. We reference them.
Why would it track that we are reading them? I go to look at the definition of a word and Logos thinks I'm reading that dictionary?
Each book should have a button that we can toggle on/off the tracking of reading status. We could 'ghost read' something without it being logged as read. Email was given 'mark as unread' probably in like 1980.
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In the book's Info tab we should be able to reset the time track, and count if we've read it or not. It should be a seperate counter, apart from 'favorites', as in "which books have I already read, which ones am I familiar with, and which ones are new to me." Three different possibilities, which are not the same as adding them as a 'favorite' (that's only for efficiency / a bookmark) or a rating. We can't be using the rating system as a history counter, which is actually how I'm being forced to use it currently. This 'personal book experience history' can't be a collection either, because mixing experience with genre is a very bad idea. That is a recipe for confusion.
Also, if we were only on the first page of a book, it's obvious that we were just looking at the book, changing its info etc. not actually reading it. So the tracking should never start until page 2; which would retroactively include the page 1 time if it's triggered. Lots of media platforms give you a threshold of how much is consumed before it marks as read/watched/played. In this case it would be when it starts to track.
In the 'Info' of a book maybe we could set if it always gets tracked, or we have to manually track it, or we could also input a manual amount of how much we've read; being in full control of this measurement and how it's auto-tracked.
