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Separate Reading List/Stats for Manga/Graphic Novels/Comics
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alternate_blueMar 30, 2026
I've been quite hesitant to track my manga/comic/graphic novel reading on SG since I don't want to drown out my goals for reading traditional novels by sheer volume (it's very easy to read multiple volumes of those three formats in a single day in comparison to a fully text novel) so it'd be nice if they could, possibly (if doable), have their own separate reading list, annual goals/streak, and/or stats page.
Or barring that if we could link a secondary account to our main account to view the stats of.
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This will probably be merged into the "don't count books towards my reading goal" body of work. I'm not sure yet if the first/any version will have the ability to say "don't count this genre ever" or more broader settings like that.
Nadia Gotcha.
Though it may be more helpful to classify manga, graphic novels, and comics as a medium/format rather than a genre and then let people exclude the medium/formats they don't want affecting their reading goals? If you do go the exclusion route that is.
I got around this last year by using a tag for everything NOT comics, so I could look at the tag stats at least. But it def was challenging to remember to add the tag to all the books. More broadly I'd love a way to include/exclude books or genres from my stats, either permanently or a way to toggle it.
I struggled with this for a long time too before giving up and just adding them anyway. My stats from 2009-2012 are massively ballooned by the amount of manga I was reading at the time, but that's okay. Recently I started reading more manga again, and currently I just do my best to offset that by increasing the overall reading goal. I hate how much it messes with my stats because I agree, it's so easy to read 2-3 volumes in a day and in one swoop I've knocked 500 pages off of my reading goal, when I didn't intend those books to count toward that. I do wish there were a separate category type for manga, graphic novels, comics, etc. because I consider that just as different of a category of reading as audiobooks.
I wish there were a way to at least exclude certain books from stats. I still track them as read, but don't necessarily want it to impact my reading stats - like manga, comics, textbooks, non-book materials, etc.