Thread: Retain reading stats for deleted books
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Old 07-25-2022, 09:23 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by BiliBug View Post
Thanks, David,

I'm more interested in retaining cumulative gross data, which should theoretically be presented in the "All Items" section of Reading Stats:

34 books finished
500 total hours reading

Instead, I'm presented with that data only for books still physically present on the device, which is a bit silly. Does everyone keep finished books on their device, just for the stats?
The stats are for books on the device. If you remove a book, the stats stop being displayed. There might be some stats for the book still in the database, and restoring a book to exactly the same location might reuse these stats, but, I have never checked.

One of the reason for this is that the stats are not synced between devices or the apps logged into your account. The reading status for purchased books is, but, not how long you have read the book. And Kobo make no attempt to backup or sync anything for sideloaded books. That also means if you do a factory reset, then you will lose the stats.

As to keeping finished books on my device, yes I do. But, that's more just not removing them. I have plenty of space on the devices I use, so there is no reason to not have them there. And I do reread or look things up when reading books that are later in the series. In the past, I used the occasions were I needed to do a factory reset as a time to do a cleanup, but, that isn't needed much now.
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