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.

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.