When adding books on StoryGraph, I often run into issues with user added editions that already claim an ISBN but contain inaccurate or low quality data. Common problems include incorrect page counts, poorly chosen or low resolution cover images, or metadata that does not accurately reflect the actual edition.

Once an ISBN is associated with one of these user added editions, it becomes effectively locked. If a better or more accurate version of that same edition exists, there is no way for another user to correct it, clone it, or create an improved version using the same ISBN. This prevents proper edition tracking and results in long term data quality issues.

Feature Request

Please consider adding one or more of the following capabilities:

Allow trusted users or moderators to reassign an ISBN to a corrected edition.
Allow users to clone an existing user added edition and improve metadata, then submit it for review.
Allow ISBN recognition across editions so a corrected version can replace a poorly created one.
Add a flag or review process for inaccurate user added editions, especially when core metadata like cover image or page count is incorrect.

Value

This would significantly improve edition accuracy, reduce frustration for users who care about correct metadata, and improve overall data quality across the platform. It would also prevent early, low quality user submissions from permanently blocking accurate editions tied to the same ISBN.

Yay, I just saw the Question Bank is in Beta! Thank you ❤️

Once we're able to answer book Questions, I would love to be able to get a notification when a question is asked about a book I've read.

Alternatively, a book I own? Not sure about specifics, but I'd love to be part of the crowdsourcing.

Maybe we could also get an opportunity to answer questions immediately upon finishing a book!

I think it could be helpful - especially for longer challenges or ones with multiple prompts, to be able to pull a CSV of the challenge. When on the go, I find it easier to scan a list, versus going into each individual prompt to when trying to decide which to do next.

I'd love it if we can revisit the possibility of having display names for our user profiles. I have a number of irl friends who started using Storygraph and I find it hard to remember all of their usernames. I've had to keep a list in my notes app of which usernames correspond to which friends lol. I THINK I have them all correct, but I honestly don't know... So it would be cool if we had the option to add a display name. I've been using the bio feature as a substitute for my display name, but I'd like it if it were separate too.

Would love to have a graph to track most listened to VA in addition to authors.

I would like to request improvements to the recommendation system, specifically how it connects recommendations to a user’s actual reading activity. At the moment, the books being recommended to me do not appear to meaningfully relate to the books I have already read, recently finished, rated, or even added to my TBR.

Even after completing the preference survey and actively maintaining my reading data, the recommendations feel disconnected from my demonstrated tastes. They do not seem to reflect patterns from my reading history, my recent reads, or the types of books I intentionally save to my TBR. As a result, the recommendations often feel random rather than personalized.

Because of this, I no longer rely on the recommendation feature and instead use reading challenges as a workaround to discover books, by exploring what other titles appear within those challenges. While that approach works to some extent, it highlights that the recommendation system itself is not functioning effectively for my use case.

It would greatly improve the experience if recommendations more clearly accounted for recent reads, highly rated books, recurring genres or tropes, and intentional TBR additions. Right now, there feels like a missing connection between my reading data and what is being suggested.

I wish we had a way to put in the cost of the book. I know we can do it with a tag, but I would love to have a way to track how much I’m saving yearly by renting from the library/ kindle unlimited/ Spotify/ audible subscription….etc. I saw another person mention she tracks in google sheets! This would be fantastic.

I know comparisons are odious, but I recently discovered this reading app called Margins and I loved its aesthetic, but no app compares to Storygraph.

My request would be that the app's aesthetics and presentation be changed to something more visually appealing. Something more decorative and less minimalist.

I sometimes read different editions of books and will have unread edition in my tbr. I would like to be able to filter/exclude if I have read a different edition of the book in my tbr list. Similar how I can search/exclude if I already own the book in my tbr.

If possible, would love a monthly/yearly stat for the number of books that I've finished reading that were apart of (or I added to) challenges I elected to participate in for a given month or year.

It would be great if it was possible to have a button or simple process to turn a tag into a book-specific challenge. I have a tag that I use to track which books I'd like to put on my list for the next year. When the book-specific challenges came out I started making it a challenge - which has been great! - but it's a bit of work to set up and since I already have the tag, I'd love an easy way to just turn the tag into a challenge.

I'd like for there to be an easier way for plus members to get to the roadmap from the main storygraph page or account settings.

I would like to be able to make challenges that are private for myself AND selected friends on storygraph. I think this would work well for book clubs as well. While I like public challenges, I don't love that anyone who joins can add books. And that if you don't want a book listed in a challenge you created, it isn't something you can automatically remove.

The idea being that a specific group of people could set a combined reading total.
Reader 1: 5 books
Reader 2: 20 books
Reader 3: 50
Group challenge being the 75 book total. Itd be nice to have a reading group that can help each other read a little more.

It’s a bit disheartening to scroll through the giveaways and find that there are 12,000+ entries for 5 available books. It seems as though a lot of users just enter every single giveaway, while some users enter just for the books we are really interested in. If everyone was given, say, 10 giveaway entries per month, it would force people to only enter for those they really want, and would thus make the odds of winning a little less daunting.

Currently, poetry collections are tagged as fiction/nonfiction in addition to poetry. Fiction and nonfiction are prose genres, distinct from poetry; poetry is neither fiction nor nonfiction.

Personally, this means I don't really track my poetry on the app, as it messes up my stats for fiction and nonfiction.

This also means that works of literary criticism have their genre marked as poetry. In other words, both a collection of poems and a work of prose literary criticism can be marked as nonfiction poetry.

The same also applies for drama pieces. Shakespeare was not a fiction writer; he was a playwright: he wrote neither short stories nor novels; he wrote plays/drama. That should be reflected by the genre when you have read a play.

This would also make for deeper accuracy in the stats and allow better tracking.

Is there a way to convert an existing challenge into another format? Specifically converting an old challenge I made when the only choice was the prompts format into the books format? I don’t want to delete the challenge and start over because other people have joined

I would like a feature where you could keep track of reviews you've liked, and also have the reviews you've liked of a particular book be linked to your own review, kind of like Letterboxd does it. Obviously this is in the potentially distant future, but I wanted to throw it out there!

This feels like a big ask, but dreaming big here!

It would be neat to see suggested reading goals based on the previous years’ data. For instance on 1/1 when I go to set up my reading goals for the year, it might show something like “you average X books/pages a year and last year you read more books than usual. For a challenging goal, you might aim for X books/pages this year.”

Currently, when I go to find similar users, book series with a large number of books are warping the results. Yes, like most people my age, I read all books in the series of unfortunate events... so now I'm getting primarily matched with people who have also read it/favorited it despite having nothing else in common! Not sure how to fix, but it's definitely an issue in trying to find community here.

Any way to let users choose how streak is calculated? Ex: I only consistently log when I finish a book, and don't every make pages-read updates (in fact sometimes I even forget to log start date until I'm logging the finish). I wish the streak wasn't based on whether I've opened the app or logged pages-read on consecutive days. I'd love it if I could set my streak to calculate from last-finish-date-to-next-start-date. That way I only break my streak if I fail to start a new book the day of or day after I finish the last book. I know myself and there's no way I don't read daily, but I don't want to log pages read to "prove" it to the app.

The "View Question Bank" button on book pages can easily be overlooked because it's gray and inert. I think it would generate more interest if the button also showed a bold green number (maybe within a circle) to indicate the current number of questions (if greater than 0).

Use a local model to create a feature on public user's pages to create gift recommendations for someone visiting their page.

For example, if I am a user and I visit YOUR profile, there should be a "Gift me a book" section (maybe integrated with Bookshop and/or Libro.fm?) with recommendations driven by your read and/or to-read lists.

for those, who also read books in different languages - it'd be neat to be able to view the whole series of books in target language, without having to click through each one

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.