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Group reviews together

I tend to forget to review books after reading and my poor mutuals on my Community feed then are subjected to scrolling through 5-20 reviews from me. Would it be possible to put them together like "xyz just reviewed some books" and then it's a carousal of the covers and our friends could see the rating that way. It could be processed in a way that "You reviewed all these books in 5 minutes" and groups them together?

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Filter That indicates Read Vs Own another Version

I often listen to audio books, when I want to buy a physical copy I would like to be able to filter on the read that indicate Read/Own another Version so that I don't double buy books. I often track the audio book itself but scan the physical books into my owns and they dont often sync.

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Quick Star Rating

99% of the time, I am not interested in completing a full review. If there was a quick way to just leave or adjust a star-rating on a book, without having to load the full review form, that would be ideal.

I recently went through my history of Read books that didn't have ratings and it was a pain to just add a star rating to each item and reload the whole Read books list in between each review.

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filter book-specific challenges

In the book club I'm running, it came up that people would like to be able to search for book names in book-specific challenges and they would like to filter for "to-read" books, too.

I created a challenge with all the books the club has read so far, since 2008, and it's ... well, a lot of books. XD So being able to see which ones someone would still have to read, would be super helpful.

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Personalized previews that don't always tell me I'll love every book

I find the personalized previews feature to have a lot of potential, but as it is right now, I've stopped reading them, because they tend to all be fairly similar. They seem to think I will always like every book, and recommend I read them. I've tried to explicitly find books that don't sound interesting to me, and it will say "As a fan of X, Y, & Z, you likely be drawn to this..." where those three books seem utterly unrelated. It even does this in books I've read and given a 1.0 because I did not like them at all, and yet the preview tells me all the reasons I will like it.

It would be good to have some sort of configurability to how these are generated, or for them to be a bit more critical. I actually really want it to point out when a book likely isn't up my alley, rather than basically telling me why I'd like every book ever written.

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Simple table option for pages read/minutes read

I love both the streaks graph and the new monthly calendar wrap up. But I would also love a simple table with just the date and pages/minutes. The graph is difficult to see actual numbers on mobile, and the monthly graph takes a second to generate each time.

I like to pull the pages/minutes I read for other tracking and having it more accessible would be great!

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Owned books page more accessible

I'd really like to have the owned books page more accessible. Right now you have to first navigate to your profile, then scroll down to find your Owned book page. I'd like to see it more visible, maybe on the home page somewhere as another section? I buy and sell a lot of books and use that page quite often.

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Sort challenges by newest created when browsing challenges
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Sort owned books by last read date or rating

I like to mix re-reads in to my TBR and being able to easily see which books I own but haven't read in a while or rated really high would be so helpful!

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Pages read in past month on Streaks page

I would love to see a data point on the streaks page to see how much I've read in the past month, a Total number and an average. I read a minimum of a page per day, so I would love to see a real value for how much I read on average and total, compared to the previous period! I feel like this would look great in the new design style, like the reading challenges and reviews section!

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An option of tracking different page numbers for digital editions without adding a new one

Currently it's accepted behaviour to add a duplicate digital edition with a different page count in order to track it accurately according to user's device. This leads to multiple books in the family with 'user-added' tags that are not merged (according to the handbook) even if the book only has 1 official digital edition.

As a user it makes it confusing for me when selecting the right edition (I mostly read digital and don't track pages, but want to pick the right edition) as I need to check if more than one digital edition exists and which one I have.

I don't know the best way to do it as I understand that some people want to track their pages with the highest accuracy, but perhaps adding a hidden/personal page counter for the corresponding digital edition would work.

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Ability to pin tags

I would love to have the ability to pin my favorite tags in the tag menu since there are a lot of tags I like to refer to often.

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Remove red/green from stats comparison

The monthly stats are awesome, but I really hate the "down =red" "up =green" of the "compared to last month" stats. It sends a very clear signal that reading less (or, fewer books, for the pedants) is bad, reading more is good. Offering at least the option to simply have the comparison offered neutrally, without the current traffic light judgment system would be an improvement.

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Have a "To-Read" List of Authors

I would love a way to have a list of authors I'd like to read on Storygraph. Especially useful for authors with a large catalog of books, instead of adding all their books, I'd love to just add an author to a list of TBR authors to refer back to.

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Misleading wording of reader summary

The reader summary on the profile page ("mainly reads...") currently has a skip in logic: mine says I mainly read fiction books that are reflective, informative and challenging, but the moods come from my entire reading history (which is 47% nonfiction) and not the fiction portion only (my top moods for fiction being reflective, dark and mysterious).

My request is to either restrict the moods to the subset of fiction/nonfiction, or change the wording to say eg "fiction books and books that are [moods]."

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Types of owned book shelves

I would love to have a way to shelves books I own to digital, audiobooks, and print

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Select date when comparing Tag stats

It would be wonderful to be able to select a date range when comparing tag stats, similar to when comparing other types of stats.
Sometimes I would like to be able to:

  1. compare 2 tags during a specific time period (instead of over the lifetime, which is the option given now)
  2. Compare the same tag over 2 different years
  3. Compare the same tag over one year versus lifetime
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Steam-style Book Discovery Queue

Similar to the recommendations, but a bit more dynamically on-demand. In the gaming app Steam, it's possible to go through a suggested list of Games, based on previous preferences and some adjustments such as popularity of a game and maybe its release date.

It's interesting because when unsure if to go for something from the to-read list, or something from standard recommendations, the possibility to just browse through a randomized list of suggestions that might match the interests of the reader. It would also help with discovering more new authors and new books, since the most popular books (while super cool as a feature) don't necessarily show the latest releases, and the recommendations don't seem to refresh on a regular basis to take into account newly read books and rating trends for them.

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Option to mark certain charts as required tag

I have some charts that I really want to make sure I have all the books tagged under: for example if the book is a series or a standalone. I would like to know the books I haven't marked so I can go back and tag them under this chart.

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Label tbr by priority

I wish we can label book in our want to read based on priority level. I would love to filter my tbr based on this too

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Filter Similar Books to those on TBR

When I'm on a book page and use the 'Browse Similar Books' button, it would be great if there was an option to show only the similar books already on my TBR list.

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Track Fan Fiction

Okay. Before people get mad hear me out.

I don't think it should include the authors name, story name, etc. But it would be cool to track that reading with your books.

I envision a static fan fiction book you can to your currently reading list. All you do is add to your page number to this item.

Edit: This would be different from "not a book" because you wouldn't have to type out all the details for each fic

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Genre: Children's Picture Books

There is middle grade, childrens, ya, and adult. However, picture books are a very specific type of children's book. Someone looking for a picture book will NOT want anything else. It would be really useful to me to have this filter as a librarian and school teacher. I currently have almost 400 saved in a tag as jpic (Juvinile Picture Books). I know there should be more but I haven't gone though all my "childrens" books yet (a little over 300) to see which of those I should also tag as picture books.

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Follow Interaction Design best practices for bottom tab bar navigation

Currently, when you navigate between the 4 bottom tabs, the app uses a sliding navigation where the next tab slides in from the right.

Animations serve as visual cues for the user's mental model of the app structure. A sliding animation implies that each tab is a child or a deeper section of the previous one.

This animation works well for drill-down navigation, where we are moving deeper into a nested structure (ex. tapping a book to go to a book detail view).

However, the bottom tab bar represents the distinct, high-level sections of the app that are not hierarchically related. When you use a sliding animation, you are implying a structure that does not exist.

I suggest using an instant switch animation on the bottom navigation bar. You can check many other apps to see that this is standard interaction design pattern.

Love the app! Thanks!

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View feature requests/ideas you've submitted

This is possibly a little too meta, but I'd really like to be able to see feature requests/ideas I've submitted so that if I notice something, I can see whether or not I have already submitted it in the past. Sometimes I notice a feature that could be added or improved and have the thought to report it multiple times but can't remember if I've done it before (and don't want to double-report). Thanks!

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