I think it would be really cool if the team used the existing robust metadata database and infrastructure to support LMS features comparable to something like Libib.

Libib is a physical library cataloging application that allows you to scan your books in and keep track of them digitally. There are a lot of cool features that branch from this, like tracking who you lend books to.

I know that currently you can already mark books as owned, so I think that leaning more into this LMS featureset would be really awesome.

When you click on the reviews by other users on a book, it would be nice to see the cover of the edition each user is reviewing.

This is particularly relevant to classics that are popular enough to have multiple translations for major languages (Homer, Dante, etc). Some translations are better regarded than others!

Right now unless the reviewer mentions which edition they reviewed, all you can see is a link that says "against another edition" which is useful but it requires clicking through to each link to see which edition they reviewed if they didn't mention it in the text.

Something similar to the thumbnails you see when you click on the Your Reviews page on your own profile would be great I think! I realise its a slightly niche request but I think it would be both useful to some users and makes the review page a little nicer too.

Thanks for considering!

I would love to be able to categorize and/or sort my TBR! I know there is an “up next” option but that limits me to only 5 books and sometimes I don’t want my TBR sorting to be on the community feed.

Inside the preferences page on mobile, users can already choose between a compact or a detailed view for their current reads layout. I'd like if there was a similar option also for the book page where we can choose between the previous layout (more compact and small) and the newest one (bigger). One day this option could be extended to apply changes to all the buttons and texts on the platform as an accessibility feature, but for now it would make both who likes the new sizing and who doesn't happy.

I've found that recently the personalized AI recs are just comparing the book to my recent reads. It will simply say whether the book is like or unlike the last 15 or so books I read and ask if I'm still in that mood. I feel like I could very easily figure that out for myself. I really preferred the older version of the feature where it compared it to other books you have previously shelved, even from years back, from a similar genre/topic and tells you whether this book might be a good fit based on those parameters instead. Not sure if this is something that can even be changed, but I figured I'd ask!

An optional feature where reading past your reading goal builds up a surplus that counts towards your next streak interval (day, week, etc.)

For example: If my daily reading goal is 50 pages and I read 70, then the next day carries the 20 surplus and I only have to read the remaining 30. If I instead read 150 pages in a day, then the current and the next two days’ streaks will have been completed.

This way reading past your reading goal feels meaningful.

Please create more than one onboarding challenge a year for new features, using tags, using random, creating a challenge or joining one, participating in the community, etc.

When I compare stats (say across 2 years) the scaling used for the No. of books read in the charts for Genre, Tags, Authors, and Star Rating do not match. For example if I read a lot more books in 2024, the x-axis may extend to 6, but the x-axis for 2025 only extends to 4.

This makes it hard to visually compare stats based on the length of the bars. 3 books in 2024 would be the same length bar as 4 books in 2025, making it appear based on a glance that I read the same amount both years.

Would love to be able to search just my friends and followers to find a specific user quickly. Right now, you can view all but have to scroll to find a specific users. Would love a search feature when I select view all that only searches my friends and the people I’m following.

When I'm filtering by moods or genres, I'd really love it if there was a way to say that one filter is required while others are optional. For example, making adventurous required, while making lighthearted and mysterious optional would bring up books that were adventurous and mysterious, adventurous and lighthearted, or all three, but no books that were just mysterious or lighthearted.
Or for genres, being able to select romance as required, but historical or fantasy as optional to bring up historical or fantasy romance, but not contemporary romance or non-romance fantasy.

As someone with a huge TBR, it would be really cool if the app had the ability to help me pick a book. I know that there's already a randomizer thing but it just picks (I think 5?) random books. It would be great if I could use the filter to pick what type of book I want to read and then the app could pick a book from within that criteria.

Option to stop recommendations from showing books if their genre list does not include one or more preferred genres

For example, if I want to see more MM Romance, there should be a way to simply tell the algorithm to exclude books if they are not marked as LGBTQIA+

Currently the only workaround is to go into Advanced filters, but that feels like I need to put in extra work while my Recommendations list remains mostly irrelevant

When comparing stats (for plus users), I can only see SG's stats. I'd love to also be able to compare my custom charts.

I was trying to clean up my Paused books and marked one of them as DNF because I realized it's been Paused for months and I'm never going to pick it back up. It set today as the DNF date, which I guess maybe makes sense since today is the day I made the decision, but I expected it to set the DNF date to the date I paused it. More oddly though, it added a Resumed entry and a DNF entry into the journal log, which didn't seem right. Not entirely sure what all the right behavior should be here but it seemed strange so I just wanted to log it.

When adding books to challenge prompts, I can't seem to figure out how to choose the right language version. It always prefers the English-language version of a book, even for books originally written in another language.
Now that I studied it more it is possible on the desktop version, but I would really love for this to be possible a bit more easily.

I just saw that there have been some updates to the book page on mobile and I'm really sad that the Editions picker is now hidden behind a drop-down. I use that button on basically every book I read, because the format that pops up on search is almost never the correct one. Having to tap the drop-down every time I do this now is a disappointing change since it's such a high traffic button for me.

Additionally, I already just exploring one single book accidentally hit the "To Read" button when I meant to hit the new drop-down. An easily rectifiable mistake, but also one I'm sure I will be repeating very often.

I know that space is at a premium on this page, but please reconsider this design choice, because it will make the app so much harder to use for my most common workflows.

When adding a new book manually, the system asks for a full edition publication date (year, month, day). Other sources never cite the full date, just the year, so I end up entering random months and days.
Request: allow entering edition date by year only.

It would be nice if we could reorder the layout/listing of the info page for books. The ability to collapse/uncollapse the review section would also be nice since it's kinda huge.

Like if I wanted content warnings to be the first thing on the list before getting to the recommendations, etc.

Would like to have an optional alternative to the star ratings since I, personally speaking, don't really quantify my reading numerically but rather by how much I felt I enjoyed it.

Something like a binary rating system with at least three options (like/dislike/ambivalent) or the traffic light rating system which is similar to the former but uses colors instead (green = like, red = dislike, yellow = ambivalent).

Star ratings just leaves me trying to guess which number(s) best correlates to how I feel about a book which just ends up with me not rating them at all.

Hello!
I have been looking for new books similar to an author I have read, but all the recommendation in the personalised and non-personalised book recommendations aren't what I'm looking for (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/77a020da-5351-42ff-a144-f34b0b3c32d2/similar)
I was wondering if it would be possible to forsee an option for Rob to develop similar to a chatbot where you could ask questions for new recommendations. I'm specifically thinking questions like "I like this series (URL or click and select) and this series/author. What do they have in common and what does this tell you about my tastes in books (referencing reading history and reading preferences survey)? Based on this info, what books/series/authors do you recommend I read next?

CSV Export for Stats and Reading Journal

I would like to request the ability to export my StoryGraph stats and Reading Journal data in a CSV format that can be used in Excel.

Requested Functionality:
• Export all core reading stats in CSV, including genres, moods, pacing, formats, page counts, and other categories StoryGraph already tracks.
• Export Reading Journal entries: pages read, reading duration, and reading dates.
• Allow users to select a custom date range for the export.
• Allow users to choose which data categories to include in the file.

Why This Matters:
StoryGraph provides monthly charts, but the visuals are limited and not customizable. Being able to export this data would let users create their own charts, graphics, and reading reports in Excel. Since StoryGraph already logs all of this information, users should be able to export their own data in a flexible format for personal analysis and documentation.

I've really loved the switch in most places to having the edition format (paperback, hardback, digital, audio) included in information list, but for some reason it hasn't been done on the book page. I saw the preview of the new format for the book page and noticed it's not there either, so I thought I'd put in a request!

With the new update I was thinking more about the mood chart and I started thinking about how the moods are distinct from each other in the chart, but books usually include more than one. I think it would be really neat to have some way to show how often moods correlate with each other. For example, a book that's funny and lighthearted is pretty different than a book that's funny and dark. Looking at my top two moods, a combination of them accounts for about half of #1 and 2/3 of #2, so it would be interesting to see what the other related moods are. Right now, if we click on a bar, the book list ONLY shows the mood we clicked on and not any of the others that the book has, so it's kind of difficult to see easily.

Ability to remain in current order instead of going back to newest challenge