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Originally Posted by davidfor
The way Kobo is counting books finished has changed. It has actually returned to a method used a long time ago. The finished book count is the number of book currently on the device that are in a finished state. The previous was using a different method and counted some stats records that were not removed when you removed a book from the device.
The hours are calculated in the same way as before. So, it should be the total amount of time spent reading using that device.
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How stupid is that? Now I don't know how many books I've read in a certain time span and how long it took me to do so, but I know how many read books I have on my device and for how many hours I've used said device?
If the device had a certain life span measured in hours I could see sense in counting the number of hours read in total, but still the book count wouldn't make sense.
And if I know how many read books are on the device, I can only use this number to calculate how much memory space is wasted.
But none of this is giving me any useful information at all.
And with the KA1 this non-useful information is skewed too. The first bunch of books and/or hours read weren't properly logged because the software was buggy. Remember, it used to show 5 books read for ages.
I don't know what they are smoking at Kobo to come up with such things but they should seriously consider packing some with their devices to make their nonsense and the gazillion of buggy updates bearable.
But thank you, David, for letting me know.