I use many book tracking apps, including StoryGraph, and it would be great if you could have the option to opt into a more customizable style for indicating a books page count similar to that of Margins, where you can put in the duration of an audiobook and the total pages yourself as as the reader. This would be helpful for books that don’t include Roman numerals or if the user wants to add or exclude front or back matter contact. Right now the only option we have is to add a new addition, but it would be great if we could have the option to customers our own metrics or stats (pages/duration) for each book.

I'd love if there was a status option of "do not read" for books that we know we do not want to read. Sometimes I hear about a book and decide that it's not for me, but I worry that one day I will run into it again and forget that I didn't want to read it. It would be nice to have a way to remind ourselves of the earlier choice. Maybe it could even be synced with recommendations so that the system will know NOT to recommend it?

When scrolling through my list of books or looking at a book page, it's impossible to tell at a glance whether I've left any written notes about the book, either as a public review or a private journal. In general, I can't find a way to see which books I've reviewed.

It would be nice to have a visual indicator that there are some notes about the book hidden in the menus. (I imagine something like the librarian notes icon, for reference)

I would love to have colour-coded ratings, so it's easier see at a glance which books I liked when browsing my reading journal. I imagine something like green stars for >3.5, red for <2.5, and yellow or gray for the middle.

Maybe there could be a couple of themes that users can choose from, like colourful, black and white, and current yellow, so people can personalize their experience a bit.

So sometimes long running series end up having author suggested or even fan suggested reading orders.

Currently, publication order seems to be the order the books appear in StoryGraph, which works in most cases.

However, I would love a way to crowdsource that information and let users create a suggested reading order based on the books in the series. I'd like it to have these features:

• Thumbs up/Thumbs down options so community can see which one is most recommended
• Each list must be unique so you don't wind up with a bunch of options
• No comments, I worry that people would add spoilers intentionally or unintentionally
• Ability to select an alternative reading order that appears in the series when you view books in that series.

When I mark a Paused book as Currently Reading, it shows up in the News Feed as "[user] started reading:". I would expect it to say "resumed reading" or something like that.

I'd love a way to help keep TSG clean of scammers and AI slop accounts like this, who are clearly created to promote one author's books or AI-generated crap:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/debbie_does_books

This one is sending out random friend requests to reach more users.

Maybe there could be a way to submit the accounts for inspection, or there could be a flagging system where a certain number of flags leads to consequences?

I find that the Personalized AI blurb tends to tell me a book isn't for me for various factors, it's rare the analysis is a positive slam dunk. Maybe it's negatively biased. Regardless, if the recommendation is that it's not a great fit for me, then recommend a better book on the subject than the one I'm analyzing and tell me why it's a better fit

Hi, congrats on the Integration between Kobo and StoryGraph. That’s a huge thing! 🎉

I wanted to share the idea of potentially creating an integration between Tolino (German E-Reader Company) and StoryGraph. Tolino has done a lot of work to essentially become the German version of Kobo. To my knowledge the hardware and software is essentially the same. So I thought it might be possible to apply the code and ideas you used for Kobo to Tolino as well.

Don’t feel pressured to think about this anytime soon but I just wanted to share it, so that attention is brought to it. ☺️

With more people looking for alternatives to scrolling, puzzle books, brain teasers, and activity books are gaining popularity. Would StoryGraph consider adding a Puzzle & Activity Books genre so readers can properly categorize and track these books?

For some nonfiction (especially textbooks) you wouldn't necessarily read in order, so it's hard to log those. It would be nice if each book had something like a checklist with each chapter and how many pages it is. You check one off when you complete any section and it calculates the total number of pages you've read so far. I have to read a lot in textbooks and it would be nice to be able to include that towards my page count more easily!

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While the buddy reads & readalongs are amazing features for less crowded book talk, it would be great to have a forum for each book, so people could exchange more broadly.

There could also be a mandatory progress label for us to fill before commenting in the main forum, as to avoid spoilers.

As a budding book collector, I would love an option where I can save a book I am looking to buy, regardless of whether I want to read it or not. Often, I have read it already, but am looking to buy a nicer bound version, for example. Similarly to "owned books", maybe there could be an option for such a list? Or just the option to have a custom book list of you choosing?

Would it be possible to move the compare stats button somewhere else on desktop? Whenever I adjust the dropdowns, my brain keeps reading it as an "okay" button that I need to click to confirm my choices. The page auto-updates after clicking out of a dropdown, but I keep hitting the "compare stats" button like it's a confirmation, which takes me to a new page, and hitting the back button just takes me back to the default stats page, so I have to set the dropdowns again (and remember not to hit the "compare stats" button this time). I think just not having it centered under the stats dropdown would help a lot. Alternatively, I think I would actually LIKE having a confirm button so the page isn't updating as I realize I've selected the wrong month, etc. and I have to wait a sec to fix it.
This is a very small thing that nonetheless keeps getting me.

Whenever I go to create a new custom chart these days I end up discovering that what I want isn't possible. Very often, I want to combine different tags when creating a chart.

Example:
How many of the books I've read have a female main character (tag 1) written by a male (tag 2) vs. female author (tag 3) compared to male main character (tag 4) written by a male (tag 2) vs. female author (tag 3).

I'd like this to be a bar chart with these 4 bars:
tag 1 + tag 2
tag 1 + tag 3
tag 4 + tag 2
tag 4 + tag 3

(Ideally I'd then also love to compare this with rating information, e.g. to see which of the four combinations I rate highest (so a bar showing the number of books for each combination that have a rating higher than 3), but that would probably make it too complicated because it would be basically two charts in one).

Ability to distinguish these common book world terms in our stats as well

Split DNF option into 2 types (not in the dropdown)
More of select DNF option and then select between soft or hard DNF

Plus with the ability in settings to turn off this multiple choice option and just have the regular DNF option only without asking to further dissect it.

I usually go back and forth between audiobook and physical since I listen to audiobooks when I'm driving for work.

I've been starting a book as a/p/h then switching to different edition as in format a/p/h before entering my progress in percentage or pages. However I noticed the "switched to this edition" does not appear in journal entries.

It would be more convenient for this to be possible than to notate every progress update if it was audiobook, paperback, or hardback for that portion as it could be hours later before I have time after work or the weekend to update.

Of course, theres still the option to ignore or delete that entry for those who use it differently than this.

Hello! Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I would love to filter out and find the "Not a book" entries I want to read. I can see that it's possible to filter by type (Fiction vs Non-Fiction) or only show by books you own or don't own, but I am really missing the "Not a book" option. It could be used to make sure you can read through your not a book's or to remove any errant entries from your TBR.

I frequently encounter the same book appearing multiple times on the To Read > Suggestions page.

For example, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is suggested for both "you've previously enjoyed this author's work" and "a user with similar taste...."

I would find the Suggestions more useful if this double-dipping wasn't allowed and a book could only be used once across all categories.

Currently when removing something from owned list, it just makes it like it was never on the list.
I think it would be good to have an option to have it on a got-rid-of list(or a nicer term for it).

That means you can keep track and not accidently rebuy books you have already decluttered and your friends wont got go thought you would like this book and you dont one to here is it as a gift (when the reason you dont own it anymore is you got rid of it)

I have just added all my books to my owned list, but I found I had duplicated some (note sure how). Having a warning when adding a book with something like
'you already have another edition of this book marked as owned would you like to -cancel adding this edition, -replace the edition on your list for this one or -add this edition anyway.'
With each hyphen being a button. This could help prevent accidental re-adds while still allowing it to happen (i have multiple copies of the same book, so I know some people will need that)

Sometimes I edit my reviews and the last edited date is changed. I would love it if we could sort the reviews we wrote (or on someone else's profile) by read date.

I don't really like just rating my books, mainly because even if I love two books, i can't give them both 5, or 4 stars, they need relationship to each other at the 5 or 4 star mark, but decimal point a are garbage as you may have hundreds of 4 star books. This is wher I think a tier list supported rating system would be interesting, allow users to create a tier list of their books, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, DNF; this would also create a very interesting system for recommendations. For example, my 5 star books could make a hash, all similar hashes that fall in the same bucket within a expected range, probably have a book that i would be interested in.

I love the suggestions page for deciding on my next book, but at times I will have put in my TBR a book that hasn't been published yet. I would like the suggestions to not include these since it is impossible for me to read them next.