I love the StoryGraph and the stats are the best. However, I really hate this stat. I wish I could turn it off. (It looks ok now but by December the number will be much higher.)
Enchanted_Bibliophile Same! I read multiple books at a time, and sometimes I neglect one for months before finally finishing it. And then that stat tells me it took me 2 weeks to finish 1 book 🤯 4d
BookNAround @Enchanted_Bibliophile You can apparently pause books now so that stat won‘t get skewed by a book you abandon and come back to. Not sure how you do it, but I like that it‘s a possibility now. 4d
BarbaraJean Ugh, yes. One thing that has helped me is discovering their option to “pause” a book. I‘ve had several books for a class that we‘ll read one chapter and then go 2-3 months without picking it back up. Now I will put a book on pause when I‘m not actively reading it. It‘s helpful to not see 11 books in my currently reading slot, but it helps this statistic as well! 4d
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ravenlee @BookNAround it‘s on the same tab where you can “finish,” so now one of the options there is “pause.” 4d
BarbaraJean @BookNAround Hahaha… great minds think alike! Apparently you commented while I was typing 😆 The option is in the same drop-down as the “currently reading” and “read” (etc.) options. Then you can just change it back to “currently reading” when you want to pick it back up. 4d
Sace @BookNAround I do take advantage of the pause feature, but my reading habits just makes it look like I take forever to read. I probably shouldn‘t read so many books at once AND I should make more time for reading. 4d
Enchanted_Bibliophile Thanks @BookNAround , I'll look into this as an option and hopefully get my stats more in-line 4d
5feet.of.fury As someone who was doing up until recently a bunch of chapter a day reads… I completely understand 😂😂 each A Song of Ice and Fire book took 2 and a half months 😭 completely skewed my stat 4d
Butterfinger I am like you, Sace, I read multiple books at the same time. And, it has also been bothering me because it doesn't feel like a week. 4d
Hooked_on_books I really dislike this stat as well, even with the pause option. I was thinking of reaching out to them to see if there‘s a way to opt out of it. 4d
Sace @Hooked_on_books I reached out to them when it first came out. At the time they said there were no plans to have a toggle off button. Maybe if enough people request it? 4d
Sace @Butterfinger and @5feet.of.fury I think my brain can‘t handle any sort of reading for quantity and/or speed. I then start picking books for how fast I can‘t read them (so I can say I read more books or read books faster). I am comfortable with my slow pace and trying to read more complex books, but I don‘t like to be reminded of my slow pace 😂 4d
vlwelser Same. As a multibook reader this stat looks really gross by the end of the year 4d
Lindy Sara, this stat gave me pause during the first six months that I was using Storygraph, because I finish one or two books every day. But I have now embraced it as the reality of reading multiple books at one time. 3d
Sace @Lindy I don‘t read fast enough to finish a book or two every day 😂 3d
Lindy @Sace But I have the same stat as you in StoryGraph: average time for me to finish a book is 7 days. 2d
Bookzombie This doesn‘t display for me, but that‘s probably because I don‘t add my currently reading or mark a start date when I add books. Obviously not helpful if you want to do that. Right now now, I think if I did do that, my number would bother me too. 2d
Sace @Lindy touché but at the same time I know that my chapter a day reading of Villette will hurt that number ?. 2d
Sace @Bookzombie exactly. And I do like to keep track of when I start and finish but I do it for the memories, not as some sort of speed test. 2d
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