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Old 10-05-2016, 07:52 PM   #800
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Originally Posted by Corpsegoddess View Post
Also, can somebody PLEASE suggest to Kobo that when you mark a book as finished using the menu, it updates in your reading count--at least for the first time?
Speaking only for myself, I would strongly dislike such a feature. Sometimes I find it useful to put books I've already finished onto my device, and it is logical that I would mark them as "finished" immediately thereafter. I don't want my read count going up in that circumstance - and if I do, the "open and skip to the end" method gives me a way to do so. I can therefore choose whether a book gets "read" or not in both contexts. Changing the software so that "mark finished bumps read count" would lock me out of those options and artificially inflate my read count whether I like it or not.

My general working principle is that, whenever conflicting use cases exist, there should be a relatively easy way to handle all of them. In this situation, we already have that.
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