A couple things!

1. Even though I'm logging a book as private, I don't mind if people see my review. As firefairy214 mentioned, I assumed it would show up as "Private User"

2. The ability to switch from private to public would be nice, if not too difficult - especially if item #1 above isn't possible. For example, Is tarted a book, marked it as private and HATED it. I wanted to DNF and share the explanation, but that wouldn't be public. So I deleted the book and recreated all the journal entries in order for my review to show up. Also, some books that I thought would be a little - odd - turned out not to be so, but I left them as private because recreating the journal entries (to not ruin my streak) would have been too time consuming.

Overall, loving it so far! Thank you, Nadia!

I assumed my reviews of privated books would show up as "Private User" in reviews, but my reviews aren't showing up at all

A way to mark books as private from the list view without having to go to the book page itself. Right now it takes a lot longer to mark multiple books private. (This is on desktop)

I like the look of the "Make Private" button when you are on the book page! Maybe that same button could be added under the "mark as owned"/"owned" button on the list view?

May be my fault for not having instagram, but I'd like documentation. E.g. un-privating a book does not push an "old" review to friends feed. How about the "top authors" page, is that different for others than for me? Are private reviews just never shown or are trigger warnings at least aggregated to the public ones?

I’d really like a way to allow certain friends to see private books.

Maybe like a close friends group and then the option to make books private for everyone including close friends or private to everyone except close friends.

And I don't know if this is possible but if there was any way private books weren't incorporated into future recommendations. Sometimes I don't add a book simply because I dont want similar books recommended in future just because im reading this one now.

I second some way of seeing at a glance what ive marked private, eg on the current reads home page. And a way of filtering them.

Another idea - to be able to run stats on private books only, as well as a way to identify private books in the regular stats charts. For example, I’d like to know what genres of books I mark as private.

I know it’s been discussed that having a private icon on the cover isn’t preferable. But it’d be good to have some way to easily identify private books in lists such as shelves, tags, etc. Maybe by having the private status clearly identified in the short list of options next to a book when it appears in list view?