# Odometer reset without cumulative paging

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [January 12, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415 "2015-01-12T18:13:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ghf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@ghf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ghf)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415/1 "2015-01-12T18:13:28Z")

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I finished a book. (A)  
I want to read another book (B) but when I reset the odometer it goes further. (A) +(B)  
How can i reset the odometer and also reset the counter without cumulative paging?

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415/2 "2015-01-12T20:33:29Z")

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Can you point to your goal? By odometer reset you probably mean [beeminder.com/faq#qodo](http://beeminder.com/faq#qodo "FAQ item about Beeminder's odometer reset feature for non-autosumming graphs") but if so I’m confused about why you’d _not_ want it to do that. The y-axis should always be total cumulative number of pages read, right?

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**Author:** ![ghf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@ghf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ghf)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415/3 "2015-01-13T03:37:49Z")

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In other words, like a classic (car trip)odometer, at the end of the journey (book, in our case) you may restart the counter to “0”. Another trip (book, in our case) begins from scratch (greenfield, if you like).  
Conclusion: it might be useful when I finish a book in the **Goal Progress** frame the **START** field and the **NOW** field to reset to “0” without historical pages of all my lifetime readings.  
My goal is to finish reading a book in a certain time horizon and not to count all the pages I have read ever.

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415/4 "2015-01-13T22:19:54Z")

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I see. It might actually be best to start a new goal for each book in that case.

Eventually we’ll finish our [road editor (aka generalized road dial)](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-is-the-generalized-road-dial/352 "Forum post about this, with pointer to our rough spec") and that may make it easy to have the road jump back down to zero for each new book. But it’s not exactly in the spirit of Beeminder, which is all about tracking your cumulative total open-endedly.

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**Author:** ![insti](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/insti/32/545_2.png) [@insti](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/insti)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/odometer-reset-without-cumulative-paging/415/5 "2015-01-13T23:17:36Z")

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I think what @ghf wants can be achieved by slight modifications to the view on the data. By moving and relabling the y axis to match the reset odometer value, you can essentially hide the old books off the bottom of the graph.  
(This is might not be possible yet.)