Please stop counting authors as a reader of their own book.

I occasionally stalk my user retention page to see if anybody is currently reading. I keep my progress set to chapter one. Well, I thought I saw a different number than had been on chapter two, so I went to check if anybody was reading at the time. Nobody was there, but when I went back to my user retention page, the number had changed. I got excited thinking someone was reading it now, but realized it was because of my own progress changing. I feel that, especially for smaller authors, the fact that we're registered as a reader can throw off our metrics. Thank you for your consideration.
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