Hi! I love the Reading Challenges feature in Storygraph and use it constantly! I love to join other people's (or Storygraph's) Challenges to get inspired to read things outside of my comfort zone or even to help me narrow down what to read off my vast TBR.

Sometimes those challenges have really specific prompts for genres that I'm not familiar with or call for books that aren't already on my TBR. Or sometimes they call for such a specific trope/characteristic/setting/element internal to the story that I don't know any applicable books off the top of my head. In those cases, I love to browse the books other users added to the prompt to get inspo!

The problem is that there is no real organization to the Books Other Users Added page and I've found that often users will include books that don't really fit or that I would never use for the prompt. This is where my ask comes from!

I would love to be able to sort and/or filter the books other users added to the challenge to get inspired and find the ones I'm most excited for! I think I would be most interested in the following sort/filter functions:

• Sort by Most Added to the prompt
• Sort by Most Relevant To You (is this possible with Storygraph's AI? Would LOVE)
• Filter by Owned
• Filter by TBR/status
• Filter by Genre
• Filter by Tag (I have a "Priority TBR" tag to help me narrow down my endless blacklist 😅)

These options would really help me maximize Challenges!

It would be useful to have filtering options based on prompt status within a reading challenge. For example, only show the incomplete prompts.
This would particularly useful for larger challenges with more prompts. Or challenges that are almost complete, where the ability to filter would save scrolling to try and find the one prompt that isn't complete.

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 wanted to check all the unfinished series that I’ve read and realised that while you get them to show books that aren’t part of a series, you can’t show only books that are part of a series. I thought some people might want that option as well.

It would be great if we could have a page that gives other people suggestions of what books to buy us.

Maybe it could be made up of a mix of our recommendations and TBR sections, but subtract all the books we already own so people don't buy us duplicates.

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!

Hey!

At this time, it seems each book can only have one language. It would be great to be able to include all the languages present in a book. I read any number of bilingual editions and/or books that just feature multiple languages.

I like to join challenges, but sometimes I don't have a book in mind for a particular prompt and go look at what other users have added to it for inspiration. That results in a list that's sometimes incredibly long and not ordered in any way. I'd like to be able to sort those results by genre so I can see, for example, all the fantasy suggestions while skipping the non-fiction or romance.

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.