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Originally Posted by Gripweed
Now that I have List view with Collections, I think I found a bug. If you look at the percentage read at the bottom of what you are reading and then go back to the list of books in that book's Collection. The percentage shown in the Collection display for the book you are reading is always 1% less than what it shows in the book. In other words, the book says 20% and the Collection says 19%. That didn't happening in my last version, 5.14.1.1. I said it was a bug, I didn't say it was a big bug.
It does mess me up since I read 4 books in a circuitous order, 10% at a time for each book. I know, weird, but it works for me to keep my interest up. I've never been one to read a book start to finish. I guess I'll just have to learn to ignore the Collection display.
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On Kindle, it is computed from ‘locations’, which is the arbitrary, algorithmic method they came up with to sync reading position between the different devices supported on Kindle platform since the very first Kindle. It tries to reflect the ‘amount of reading’ you have done, and has nothing to do with how the pages are laid out in a given book, which can vary depending on the device.
The percentage shown in the book is always the current location divided by total locations times 100, rounded to the nearest whole percentage number. If the fractional value is 41.51%, it will say 42% in the book.
Meanwhile, back in Library view, it takes a dimmer view of your so called progress. It is not going to round up. You ain’t there yet, any more than you are 38 a week short of your 38th birthday. It just truncates. That 42% becomes 41%.
The two numbers agree whenever the fractional percentage is less than .5. If you are at 41.49% then both contexts will show 41%. But secretly, you are nearly half the way to the next whole percentage.
I see no difference when viewed inside a collection vs not in a collection. There should not be any.
I don’t have any way to check, but I don’t think this has changed with the update. But when there’s a big design change, it is normal to ‘notice more’.
Note that the Kindle apps don’t use the same computation for percentage, using ‘locations’. In fact, it’s not always possible to see what the current location is, or navigate to a specific location number (if the book has ‘real page numbers’). I think percentage is probably based on which (display) page you are on out of the total number of (display) pages, but have not checked this.