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Feb 28, 2021
Users are very keen to know more about the authors they are reading: where they're from, how they identify across a range of dimensions, including race and sexuality.
We need to do more planning and research before we roll out something like this. It's very likely that the first stage will be more information-rich, highly-curated author pages, built up by our volunteer librarians.
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I wonder if an mvp of this could be allowing users to tag authors in a similar way that we can tag books. I’d love to tag authors to help myself and others not have to look up nationality, sexuality, and other details because I’ve forgotten. Then this info could be used help users trying to read own voices books and to help build the author pages mentioned
I'm a huge fan of this idea!
This would be awesome!
Very neat! As a work around, I actually created a challenge to this. https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading_challenges/3a91e110-c5a9-48c1-a589-35f0aa63c0fd
IIn general I think author pages will open up the option for a lot of interesting features, so I'm looking forward to this.
One of the features I would like is the ability to mark an author as incorrect, even if the name is right. For example, sometimes when I click on an author's name, I get books I know they didn't write. (I think when books are added it is hard to pick the 'right' author if it is a common name. ) So if users could flag problem authors for the librarians to go through, that might be useful.
YES. I really want to track how diverse the authors I am reading are and be able to find more local Authors.
I am very very excited about this potential feature!