Magic.
So for example in this thread- look at at my post, then look at the URL box. Now scroll up. You’ll notice that the post count number adjusts. So when you click a thread it brings you to the last post that you saw, and you’ll have to scroll down to read more.
Magic.
Sheesh. How many life minutes have I burned? 
Believe it or not the S/W keeps track of that too. You don’t want to know.
5d read time
and enjoyed every minute!
11 day read time:no_mouth:
My Son moved away and got me playing this silly “battlefield heros” game just to play together, and then he quit. I kept playing.
By the time I quit, I had 6 months play time.
At least here I’m getting a preliminary education in something besides how to blow stuff up in a cartoon.
Not sure if possible for GF to setup in your summary where you stand in relation to your regular status. Just to know if your keeping up or just skirting by reply amounts and likes and such.
what Id’ really like would be a glowforge founder’s model plaque or sticker to affix to mine.
There’s one in every GF. You just have to enable it with the right software and cut it out 
That’s cool 
Apparently I’ve missed some reading somewhere. My status only show 27.6k posts read. And a 6 day read time? Is that a 24hr day?
I’m guessing here but i believe the forum sw calculate a read time for each post. If that post is not on your screen for the minimum read time it doesn’t count that post as read.
might also help to adjust your personal settings so posts older than 2 days aren’t listed as not new?
So what exactly is “read time”? At first I thought it may be total time spent reading on the forum but I’m fairly certain I’ve spent more time than that.
It must count viewing time some how. It’s not calculated per post or per word. I have only read maybe 700 more posts than you but my read time is double yours. (And yes, I should be ashamed of that)
Ashamed? There is absolutely nothing wrong with not speed reading lol. I feel that everyone should slow down and really enjoy all of the information provided, especially when reading a good book.
14k posts read but only have a 3 day read time…doesn’t make sense…Im a fast reader but not that fast I dont think…lol
My wife and I rarely have time to sit and talk. Even more rare is for us to both have time to read the same book and later discuss it.
But, pre-kids we had done so with Wheel of Time and Sword of Truth, both sadly still in production and putting us through year+ waits between books…
Anyway, she can finish a weighty book in a weekend. Most books in a day. I rarely get through a book in under 2 weeks.
But, when we talk about the books… I have so many more insights and theories. She clearly misses many details. But… I cannot STAND to read any book a second time. And she has favorites that she will read every year, always noticing something new.
So yeah… read at your own speed. There is a reason for it, on either end of the spectrum there are benefits.
Wow! Been years since I read those. Somewhere around the 10th(?) one I started to lose interest - seemed to be devolving into more philosophy than action story. Felt preachy and the stories began to drag. When I started reading them I would read them like your wife - finish one in a day or weekend (staying up until 3am if I had to). Then I found I was taking a week or more. Never thought they were still being churned out.
Both series are done. I never kept them straight very well, too many overlaps and too long between releases.
One of them ended nicely, I think that was Wheel of Time. Though that one didn’t end with the original author, he died and passed along notes for someone else to finish.
The other one was a TERRIBLE ending in my opinion, though I don’t remember precisely what I hated about the ending. Pretty sure that had been Sword of Truth, and there were inconsistencies in how they ended (didn’t make use of powers which had been set up in places they would have made sense to use)
Well as you can see marmak3261 this is why I am not a regular I guess. If you look at the original post and the last posting to said post, (not being judgmental…underscore mental in my case) I want info…not a con-flux of roads leading away from original thought, and that seems to happen quite a bit in this blog…so that is my reason for not reading everything. When it’s straight info with some insights, fine, but when it diverges to another conversation altogether…where are we?..lol
Yes. You have a great point about hijacked threads. That is a good reminder to me to resist my urge to be cute and witty rather than contribute something substantial to further the discussion.
As to the original post: a few of the regulars have been discussing collaborating on something like this. I think it would be cool.