I used to not count DNF’d books as completed, but recently changed my mind a bit. I feel like if you actively decide not to finish you’ve already completed it in some way. Also allows me to rate and review on goodreads for example. What do you guys do? Do you count them? Is there a certain amount you have to read before you consider a DNF book completed? Or do you not think of them completed at all?
It depends on what my goal is. I don’t care about # of books per year, the only place I log that is on the app I’m using to log book. On that app I do log my DNF books. I use Storygraph and it allows me to rate and comment on a book that is marked DNF.
When it comes to my other goals I don’t usually count a DNF book, there are a few exceptions.
I’ve never counted books. If someone asked me if I read a book I never finished I’d just say I started it but never finished.
It really doesn’t matter what you or anyone else does. On the list of books I keep, I also mark ones that I put down before the end.
No, I only count books I fuck. /s
Counting a DNF as completed is literally nonsensical.
Not LITERALLY nonsensical. Depends on how you look at it. If I eat half of a pizza at lunch at 3/4 of another at dinner I still count that I ate two meals that day.
If you ask me what I read in 2023 I’ll tell you about that book I didn’t finish, so it does count in a way, I read it. But yeah in my kindle I don’t mark them as Read.
I get what you’re saying, but that pizza analogy really makes no sense at all. Like, completely unrelated
A pizza isn’t a meal. If you ate half of 7 different pizzas in a week, why would you say “I ate 7 pizzas this week”? Makes no sense.
So if you read half the book today and the second half tomorrow, you read two books?
I don’t usually count them because if I DNF a book it will usually be a very early decision. I still rate and review on Goodreads, and click it as ‘read’ - but don’t put in a ‘completed’ date, so it doesn’t count towards my yearly total.
I like the Goodreads yearly self-challenge, because otherwise I might waste time and not read as much as I would like.
I add them on goodreads and I considered them read even though I know haven t completely read them. But if they were that bad that I dnf ed then I don t need to know more
Yes, if I read it enough to get the gist of the book.
Only if I read at least 50% of it. Otherwise no.
Depend how much of the book I have read.
If it’s super early on then no (although I have just now realised that Goodreads is still counting them) but if have read half or 2/3 of the book, chances are I still skimmed the rest of it just to know how it ended and so yes.
It’s not common for me to DNF a book though, it has to be really bad for me to abandon it, and usually I try to read the first 100 pages to see if it improves.
I log it as a DNF in my reading journal and note how many pages I read. I don’t rate it, but I do write why I decided not to finish it.
This is a good method. I like the idea of adding a note on why I didn’t finish a book.
Sometimes I pick up a book that was DNF originally, and then the second attempt I try reading it, and it hooks me.
Sometimes books aren’t meant for me at the time.
I don’t. If you literally didn’t finish, it is not completed. You can track it if you like, but it should be tracked as DNF, and it shouldn’t count as a book read.
No. I hold dear to my principles. That’s cheating to me. Cheating myself. I’d feel like a fraud saying I read it and not doing so.
I don’t count books at all. Seems pointless.
No, I only count books as read if I’ve read them.