How to disable anchor (jump to last reading location) in NeoReader

Gabriel H

• September 23, 2025 17:52
• Edited

NeoReader app has this feature (which sadly for me has been more like a bug) where this anchor icon appears in a book on the side to 'Jump to last reading location '. It doesn't seem to show up in all books (thankfully), but it seems designed around the idea that all books are novels or non fiction that you read from beginning to end. I have a number of reference books that I read in many different parts and aren't intended to be read from cover to cover. The icon also blocks out text on the side of the screen and is very distracting. It's just been a major pain. I've looked through the settings, tried searching on the Internet and cannot find anyway to disable this dumb anchor. Anybody else crack the code on this yet?

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  BOOX Shop Service

  • September 24, 2025 02:46

  Dear customer,

  We are afraid that it is unable to disable the "jump to last reading position" feature. However, after you jump to the page, the anchor icon will be hidden once you turn more than 3 pages.
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  Samuel A. Kendrick

  • September 24, 2025 19:52

  I too have a reference book that I read several times a day, jumping around based on the time of day. I appreciate the feature and maybe it's good for others, but I would also prefer it to be an optional feature that I can disable.

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  BOOX Shop Service

  • September 25, 2025 02:12

  Dear customer, 
  We apologize for the inconvenience. In this case, we have forwarded your suggestion to the relevant department and will do our best to improve the software on our device in the future. Many thanks for your understanding.

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  Yuji Reda

  • October 31, 2025 09:32
  • Edited

  It is a nice feature but I also find it distracting when I click it by mistake while annotating so I agree making it optional could be helpful.

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  Jakub Narębski

  • March 17, 2026 09:42
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  I agree that it would be nice to have this feature to be optional, to be able to turn it off in the reader settings.

  I have another use case where this "anchor" thing is just annoyance, and not useful at all: I have PDF calendar that I make notes in. Going three pages is three days of annoyance (or more, depending on how it interprets "going three pages" - days, weeks, months are deeply hyperlinked in the PDF calendar that I use with my Onyx Boox tablet).

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