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DO YOU COUNT YOUR DNF AS READ?
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Feb 04, 2024 11:47PM
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I do and I don't. I have a DNF shelf that I've made like the Read, Want to read and Currently Reading shelfs. Depending on how far I've gotten I count it on my own spreadsheet.
It depends for me. Mostly based on how painful it was for me to get to where I got before I decided to DNF. If I was truly struggling and just couldn't force myself to get through it, then I count it because I know I couldn't do any more than that. If I could have finished and just decided not to, I won't count it. Not sure if that makes sense.
I do not DNF any books plodding to finish books sometimes over years but do not put any book as read till I've completed it.
no if I didn't finish reading something then it's not been fully read
absolutely bc i usually don’t dnf until at least a little over half way so then im counting it for wasting my time haha
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I do, but I don't count it toward my yearly reading goal
I rarely dnf a book because I just have a need to see it through no matter how badly I wanna quit but if i do I only count it as read if I am at least 60% through. it has to be more than half read for me to count it because I already spent time reading it.
Nope. I just delete it from my shelves.
If I don’t complete a book, I don’t count it as read.
I don't count them, but I like the idea of making a shelf. I do track the pages I read in my book journal though.
Not unless it’s a dnf at like 85% or more.
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nahh its cuz i didnt finish so i never considered that i read that book
but also, i can’t ever just dnf a book, i just have to finish it. 😭😭😭
Boy, if only this theory applied to everything...Yeah, ran a marathon yesterday...well, actually it was about ten feet...but hey l'm counting it. :)
Wow, that was a long week at work (but you only work part time, two days a week, four hours a day, from home in your pajamas). ;)
Read, means from beginning to end in my book.
this only ever happened to me once. I read 68% of the book and gave up on it. I did rate it and wrote a review bc it might help someone decide if they want to read it or not but I don't count it as read
No, of course not. They literally haven't been read. If someone told me they read a book and I found out they bailed at page 30... I'd have difficulty trusting anything they said. I mean... that's literally, "I have NOT read".I have created two shelves, for this.
One is "back-burnered", for the books that I couldn't read, right now, but know I'll eventually come back to. The other is "could-not-finish".
Putting them in either of these categories removes them from my "currently reading".
I do nottttt! End up selling them or giving them away honestly lol
Depending on how far I got into it. I'll count if I'm usually half way and just not finish.
No. I have been known to skim-read particularly graphic passages, but other than that I only count as read books I have completed (including skimming the notes in non-fiction works).
That's a kind of self-cheat, isn't it? I have a DNF shelf, and that's where those eventually go. I feel each one as a self-defeat so I very rarely fail to finish a book. Sometimes I'll put one aside but leave it in my library stash where I can see it, and I'll read something lighter in the interim, then go back to finish. These are usually dense non-fiction works which I try to read as every 5th book or so; sometimes ya just gotta cave to the need for escapism--it serves a worthy purpose in these anxious times. Most often, the escape allows me to return to the grind.
Dee wrote: "I feel each one as a self-defeat so I very rarely fail to finish a book"I used to feel that way. Until the day I thought about how many unread books I own, and how many I'd like to own... and how I'll never get to read all the books I want to read...
At that point, I found it incredibly easy to DNF a book. There are too many more deserving of my time, to read the ones that aren't.
Only if I get through 75% or more of it and I get a general idea of how it's probably going to end
No, but it is really, really, really rare for me to not finish a book. In the last 20 years I maybe DNF one or two books.
Yes but only because (unlike storygraph) there’s no way to count the data I did finish towards my end goal. Rating and review those books though? Different story. I most likely, unless it’s an ARC, won’t rate and will just say why I didn’t finish.
i dont it js feels like lying to myself tbh
Lol Istg I didn't write that 697 it's just my keyboard
