AliceSki Does the view you are saying in the "about novel" or it's the valid reads?
The valid reads is where you click write, click your books, at the top right corner, there are small bar. Touch that bar, and look for calid reads. That's the reader's count that you can at least trust. Even collection has bot but, it's not as exaggerated as the readers bot. Collection bot only a 1 to 3 different from the original.
Last 6ear, we have comments bot, funny, because every new author is panicking. But, the bot has not runn amok after a week and the story has become a history.