Sometimes life — or a library due date — can get in the way of reading, and that's okay! Especially because you can now officially pause books on StoryGraph! 🎉

The paused status option is now available on any books that you've got marked as currently reading and selecting it moves them to a collapsed section on the Currently Reading page.

Not only does this help you focus on the books you're actively reading, paused periods will be excluded when it comes to calculating your average reading time stats!

You can backdate a pause and also add a private note in your journal entry about why you're taking a break.

When you're ready to go back to a paused book, simply toggle it back to currently reading.

We hope this new feature — something that only exists because it was posted on our roadmap some years ago and is the most upvoted request ever — helps you take your reading tracking to the next level by reducing the pressure of having too many active books and increasing the accuracy of your stats! ✨