As a fan of longer books / series's's's quite often when I return and login to sol again, I'll click on my username under the home button/title to view what I was last reading. If it's been too long I go to the history button to see what I read last. These don't however take me to whatever chapter I was reading last, just taking me to the last story. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks,
T.
Yes. SOL places a cookie on your computer containing the necessary information. If you have cookies enabled and your browser is not configured to delete cookies, you will be returned to the place in the story's chapter where you were at the time you exited the chapter.
These don't however take me to whatever chapter I was reading last, just taking me to the last story. Is there a way to do this?
The site remembers what position you reached in every story/file in a local storage on your computer/phone, but it's erased if you clear the site's data from your device.
The site remembers the chapter progress for bookmarked stories.
So whenever you start reading a serial, add it to your library and the site will remember the chapter for you.
When I close down my browser (Firefox), it nukes all cookies. However it remembers recent links. So when I get to a story's homepage, the links to chapters I've already accessed are shown differently to those I haven't.
AJ
While I don't nuke cookies when ever I open this site all the stories I access and all the chapters I read are in red.
Oh, all history and cookies are nuked each time I close the browser, I guess that's my problem. I guess I wondered if the site could remember for me instead of the cookies doing all the work.
each time I close the browser
Most browsers can be configured to retain history and cookies, if you wish to do so.
REP
I guess I wondered if the site could remember for me instead of the cookies doing all the work.
I'm willing to bet that if the site could do this it would take up more data space then all the stories. Having a cookie save the data on your system is minor but to have the server save the data for you and every user of the site that has just got to add up.
Little off topic, but I don't think the data space is the problem. Rather transmitting that data to the server.
Since the Library already saves what chapter you're on, all it would have to do would be to also save the scroll position in that chapter. That's a byte-sized numerical and not a problem at all.
BUT! Since you can never know when a user closes the page, you have to update that scroll position every time the reader scrolls down, WHILE the user scrolls down (or at least as soon as the user stops scrolling). That's no problem in a cookie... the browser can just do that on its own without communicating with the server. But if you want to save that in the library, you'd have to continuously transmit that value to the server, basically DDoS-ing yourself.
I wondered if the site could remember for me instead of the cookies doing all the work.
You responded to everybody but me. Yes, the site can remember for you without cookies. You just have to bookmark the story.
You responded to everybody but me.
You're just the webmaster and responsible for making sure everything on here works properly. What the heck do you know? :)
That's how I feel when someone tells me they asked their sister's friend about the best way to sell a house, because they watch HGTV a lot. Don't actually bother to ask someone that does it for a living and is a professional at it. I ran into that when selling cars. The customer would make all sorts of disparaging remarks about how I was just a salesman, so I didn't know anything. Then I'd slip in that I spent 15 years working at the factory BUILDING them. I have had people leave rather than admit they were wrong.
Thanks Lazeez, your fix works! I just had to wait for it to occur again. It took me right back to the chapter I was on. You're a superstar! My biggest gripe solved! Now if you could get more authors to write do-overs, that'd be super, thanks! 😂
Now if you could get more authors to write do-overs, that'd be super
Or the system can position you at the previous chapter so you read it again (do-over LOL).
