diff --git a/components/PageReader.tsx b/components/PageReader.tsx
index 3036e1a..d76efcc 100644
--- a/components/PageReader.tsx
+++ b/components/PageReader.tsx
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ export function PageReader({
     return 1;
   });
   const currentRatioRef = useRef(0);
+  const currentChapterNumRef = useRef(startChapterNumber);
+  const currentPageNumRef = useRef(1);
+  const lastWriteAtRef = useRef(0);
+  // Guards progress writes so an empty session (opened chapter, never
+  // scrolled) doesn't overwrite prior bookmark for a different chapter.
+  const hasScrolledRef = useRef(false);
 
   const imagesRef = useRef(images);
   const chapterMetasRef = useRef(chapterMetas);
@@ -326,9 +332,9 @@ export function PageReader({
     const scrollToResume = () => {
       const el = pageElRef.current.get(pageKey(startChapterNumber, p.page));
       if (!el) return;
-      instantTop(
-        scrollOffsetFromRatio(el.offsetTop, el.offsetHeight, p.ratio)
-      );
+      const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+      const docTop = rect.top + window.scrollY;
+      instantTop(scrollOffsetFromRatio(docTop, rect.height, p.ratio));
     };
     scrollToResume();
     requestAnimationFrame(scrollToResume);
@@ -343,29 +349,37 @@ export function PageReader({
         hiddenByScrollRef.current = true;
         setShowUI(false);
       }
-      // Pick the topmost page whose top edge is above y+80 (top edge of the
-      // content below the sticky header); walking the small intersecting set.
       let bestCh = 0;
       let bestPg = 0;
-      let bestTop = -1;
-      let bestEl: HTMLDivElement | null = null;
+      let bestTop = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY;
+      let bestHeight = 0;
       for (const { chNum, pNum, el } of intersectingPagesRef.current.values()) {
-        const top = el.offsetTop;
+        const rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
+        const top = rect.top + y;
         if (top <= y + 80 && top > bestTop) {
           bestTop = top;
+          bestHeight = rect.height;
           bestCh = chNum;
           bestPg = pNum;
-          bestEl = el;
         }
       }
-      if (!bestEl) return;
-      currentRatioRef.current = calcScrollRatio(
-        y,
-        bestTop,
-        bestEl.offsetHeight
-      );
+      if (bestCh === 0) return;
+      hasScrolledRef.current = true;
+      currentRatioRef.current = calcScrollRatio(y, bestTop, bestHeight);
+      currentChapterNumRef.current = bestCh;
+      currentPageNumRef.current = bestPg;
       setCurrentChapterNum(bestCh);
       setCurrentPageNum(bestPg);
+
+      const now = performance.now();
+      if (now - lastWriteAtRef.current >= 200) {
+        lastWriteAtRef.current = now;
+        writeProgress(mangaSlug, {
+          chapter: bestCh,
+          page: bestPg,
+          ratio: currentRatioRef.current,
+        });
+      }
     };
     const onScroll = () => {
       if (rafId) return;
@@ -376,15 +390,31 @@ export function PageReader({
       window.removeEventListener("scroll", onScroll);
       if (rafId) cancelAnimationFrame(rafId);
     };
-  }, []);
+  }, [mangaSlug]);
 
+  // Flush latest scroll position on pagehide / visibilitychange / unmount
+  // — catches the 0-200ms window between the last throttled tick-write
+  // and tab close / bfcache.
   useEffect(() => {
-    writeProgress(mangaSlug, {
-      chapter: currentChapterNum,
-      page: currentPageNum,
-      ratio: currentRatioRef.current,
-    });
-  }, [mangaSlug, currentChapterNum, currentPageNum]);
+    const flush = () => {
+      if (!hasScrolledRef.current) return;
+      writeProgress(mangaSlug, {
+        chapter: currentChapterNumRef.current,
+        page: currentPageNumRef.current,
+        ratio: currentRatioRef.current,
+      });
+    };
+    const onVisibility = () => {
+      if (document.visibilityState === "hidden") flush();
+    };
+    window.addEventListener("pagehide", flush);
+    document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", onVisibility);
+    return () => {
+      flush();
+      window.removeEventListener("pagehide", flush);
+      document.removeEventListener("visibilitychange", onVisibility);
+    };
+  }, [mangaSlug]);
 
   // Aspect-ratio placeholders stay so layout is preserved; observer
   // re-fetches images on scrollback into an unmounted chapter.