Reading Percentage Circle

Hi,

Is it possible to turn off, or at least hide, the reading percentage circle? This seems to me to be a gimmick. Logos may be able to record how often and how long I have had a resource open. It cannot possibly know if I have read a single word. Many books are surely for reference, not for reading through.

John

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MJ. Smith

I can't find it to discover if I can turn it off although I know I occasionally see a percentage read somewhere...[:$]

John Houseago

Hi,

It is new in the 6.0b release.

It is an optional column in the library, and appears when books in a collection or on the shortcut bar are moused over - but only if that book has been opened.

John

Rosie Perera

Is it possible to turn off, or at least hide, the reading percentage circle?

It is an optional column in the library, and appears when books in a collection or on the shortcut bar are moused over - but only if that book has been opened.

As you've discovered, you can turn off the column in the library. But there is no way to turn it off or hide it in the popup that comes up when you hover over books in collections (it's odd that this popup only comes up there, but not in the library under similar circumstances) or on the shortcut bar. I agree it's probably irrelevant or inaccurate most of the time, but I did at least ascertain that Logos doesn't think I've read an entire book simply after I've paged through the whole thing quickly to skim it and see what it's about so I can tag it appropriately. They must have some algorithm for how long you have a page open before paging to the next page in order to consider that you've "read" that page. Regardless, I'm not likely to find that measure of any interest to me. I do sometimes like Kindle's offer to sync me to the last page read when I open a book on a different device than the one I was last reading it on, but then again in Kindle my opening of books is 95% for the purpose of reading them, where in Logos that percentage is more like 5%.

I think the reading percentage circle is non-intrusive enough that you can ignore it. I hadn't even noticed it in the hover popups until you mentioned them. I hardly ever go around hovering over books on my shortcut bar or in my collections tool anyway.

MJ. Smith

Found it! It also appears on the new tab created by clicking on the + tab. Can't say I find it very intrusive so I see no particular reason to be able to disable something I have trouble finding in the first place. I can see some circumstances it might be useful in telling me whether I've merely opened or at least skimmed sufficient material to have formed an informed rating for a resource.

John Houseago

Thanks, Rosie. You are right to say that it is non-intrusive It does not, however, offer any meaningful information and therefore I ought to be able to turn it off!!!