Progress and history

Summary

The Reader’s progress indicator describes your route through the story, not how far you have scrolled down the page.

Steps

1. Open a story and use its Reader progress indicator to see your position along the narrative route or preview, as labeled.
2. In a branching story, follow a choice and note that your route can differ from another reader’s route through the same work.
3. Use Continue Reading or the Library to return to saved progress where account sync or the current device has a usable record.
4. For a data copy, use Account’s export flow; optional story metrics are separate and contain aggregate event counts only.

What to expect

• Route progress is not a scroll percentage and does not represent every possible branch in an interactive story.
• Your reading progress is account or device data used to resume reading; it is distinct from analytics and is not used to rank Explore recommendations.
• If optional metrics are available, they count public-story opens, starts, chapter reads, and completions by story/day after consent and deployment enablement.

Troubleshooting

• If the progress label and your current passage disagree, reload the story and continue from the visible chapter or segment.
• If progress is missing, confirm the account and browser storage you used previously, then check the Library for the same story.
• For a repeated mismatch, send reading support the story URL, the label shown, and the chapter—never a password or private token.