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Old 10-22-2015, 06:39 AM   #1247
John F
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
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For this sort of thing, there has to be a decision made in the design of the application on what to do. Kobo made it in a fashion you don't like. From a usability point of view, I believe this way works better. Reopening the book is treated as starting to read it. If that isn't what is happening, you mark it as finished when you close the book. Otherwise, you would need some other mechanism to indicate the reread.
Or you could get rid of the "automatic" marked as finished (which isn't very reliable) and "reading" and make it clearer to the user by changing the "finished" to a check box and leave it up to the user what they want.

Having to go in and continuously having to mark a "finished" book as finished seems very poor from a usability point of view.
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