I would like a more intuitive way to add or correct older data in my reading history.
Currently, my reading journal is a mix of books with daily/weekly updates, books with start and end dates only or other books with only end dates.
This is mainly due to transferring my data from outside Storygraph so older data is not as good as newer data added to Storygraph. I’ve tried going back through my data and manually fixing start and end dates, but I stopped because I don’t feel like I have good visibility on what effect my changes are having. In particular, on reading stats (yearly/monthly) and streaks.
I can of course go check my stats and recalculate streaks after each change to see but I feel like there could be a better way.
If I had a few tools like:
- Ability to see/edit reading journal entries across selected dates.
- Access to a graph that show pages/books read on selected dates.
- Ability to add journal entries for books read a decade ago.
- If we know our reading pace this could allow users to smooth out their streaks (daily/weekly etc.)
- Allowing data points on the graph to be clicked to see the book/page data underneath.
- Allow easy refreshing of these tools so as not to lose “place” or context.
- Add some documentation on what counts as pages read (100% vs page count vs page number and how they interact).
- And documentation on how to manage/curate your reading history using these tools.
Hopefully, this makes sense on what I’d like to see. Let me know if I can add clarification.
I'd add having the ability to import mass tag updates. For example if I wanted to start keeping track of publisher info via tags it would be much easier to do it via a csv file instead of having to go through manually for each and every book. I do know we can currently do this but it's not recommended as the upload overwrites the current data. So you have to go though and remove anything you don't want overwritten. Also csv files require that you tweak the isbn number format before importing which is a bit of a pain. I only have over 850 books but I know others have thousands so having a simplistic way to do this would be great.
Thank you for your post. This is quite a broad one but I suspect it'll naturally be addressed over time. Some of these things are already on the roadmap/todo list.