I'd love to be able to review books that I did not finish, as well as being able to read why other people decided to start but not finish the book. It doesn't have to be a full review with a star rating etc... even a limited kind would suffice
I would love to get some data on which imprints/publishers are publishing the books I've loved most in the last couple of years, based on my ratings.
This would help me identify which catalogues to follow closely, because clearly they have a similar editorial taste to me!
In general, though, it'd be really interesting to get a sense of how widely or narrowly my reading activity spreads across different houses
Love the new preference option for sharing the books you own to others, including those who don't have a Storygraph account.
A tweak to this (and apologies if this is already possible and I've just missed it) - would be the ability to share the Books I don't own (specifically those that are on my To Read).
This could also be called the List of Books You Can Safely Gift Me ;)
Right now you have to be on the book page to add it to a reading challenge. Would be cool if you could add it from your Read, TBR or Owned lists without having to open the book page. Also assuming that this would then allow you to see that it was added to a reading challenge from those lists, as you cannot see this now.
When browsing for new recommendations, I was wondering if it was possible to have a drop-down tab that lets you read the summary without having to open a new tab or click away from the list?
Add a 'Clear' option next to the two date lines in the challenges. This allows for quicker setup; 'Clear' is particularly useful when setting up an open challenge, reducing the process to just two clicks instead of changing six different drop-downs.
The attached picture also displays a 'set to today' option. Initially, I added this, thinking it could be convenient for a quick reset if you clear or change the dates. Maybe not necessary, but could consider including both for added flexibility?
*Also to be noted for clarification that my picture shows the date fields cleared but when you setup a challenge those a filled in with that days date.
It would be nice and much less time-consuming if, when you initially set up a challenge, you could select the total number of prompts you want to have in that challenge—let's say 10. It would then automatically create 10 prompts that you could fill in to start with. If you later wanted to add more or remove them, you could do so manually, as you can now.
Would be nice to be able to filter my TBR or read to find all the titles I added that at the time did not have a cover out so that they could be added/updated.
Could be nice to be able to just filter by any missing info such as cover, blurb, pub date etc.
It would be nice to see which date the current streak began.
Adding the ability on the book details page to add or tag the location the story is set in. Would be nice to say the country as well as city and or state (US). Maybe even more details like the year it's set in?
Update edition from stats page or a easier way to do it without having to go into the books page
Add star rating to a book from stats menu without having to go into the full review page
The "Content to avoid" is an elegant way to stay clear of certain content without getting spoiled and I already love it a lot. I'm aware it's still in Beta, so maybe something like this is already planned, but I would love to have an option to avoid only graphic descriptions of something. Often, the little warning triangle shows up next to a book, and when I check the user-submitted content warnings, I see that the content is either moderate/minor or submitted by so few users that it could be a mistake. An option to only exclude graphic descriptions of that content in the preferences would be very helpful in some of those cases. Alternatively, it would already really help to see the severity of the content on the book page without having to open all content warnings and getting potentially spoiled.
I’m at at least one challenge which is ongoing reading of award winners (Hugo). I’m not sure if the current owner is still active on the site, as the 2023 winners have not been added to the challenge. I’d like a way to nudge or offered to cohost a challenge.
The exact same feature that already exists on a book's review section, but for users profiles.
I sometimes read a really good review and would like to know what else the user has written, but often find that they mostly leave empty, star-only ones.
I'd like to be able to put together a list of books that my friend (a buddy for buddy reads!) can also add books to. We have a monthly reading list and want to jointly choose books and remember the ones we both are interested in.
Would be a nice option to be able to gift someone 1 - 12 months of plus rather than just a full year as it is currently.
I created a yearly challenge for 2023. If I, or anybody else, want to repeat it in 2024, 25 etc., we would have to create a copy of that challenge. This means manually copying everything, and we would loose the books already added.
Instead, I would like to add another timeframe to an existing challenge, that matches the original timeframe. That way I could do a yearly challenge several times, others could do it in a year that suits them and we could still see all the books that have been added in previous years.
I'd love a feature that gives exportable html of your book review text like Goodreads does. That's basically the only feature I still use on GR so having it here would free me completely. 😍
I envision:
And maybe checkbox options to include or remove other info like rating, moods, genre, pacing etc that you can add to reviews.
In my monthly stats, sometimes I have pages tracked but no books finished in that time frame, and it would be cool if I could see where those pages came from without having to search through my journal entries to see what I was reading at the time.
Maybe at the top of the monthly stats page, under "Read", similar to how you can click the number of books, the number of pages could be clickable as well and take you to a page showing which books had pages tracked during that month.
Even further, if there was a way to show the total pages for a book that were tracked in that month, I'm always so curious what percentage of my pages came from what book in the month!
It would also be cool if the plot points on monthly page line graphs were clickable with links to journal entries for that day. (On the yearly line graph of pages/books read, it would be awesome if the books plot point took you to the list of books read and the pages plot point took you to stats for that month, but maybe that's a wholly different request haha)
Thanks and have a wonderful day! I love the StoryGraph so much and appreciate all you do to keep making it even better!!
I started tagging my books, but I decided to start over when the list became unwieldy at over 200 tags. I realized now I have to individually delete all the tags, instead of marking the ones I want to delete and clearing them all at once. Could this be a feature? Thanks!! This site is great!!
The recommendation feature is amazing on this website, however there is one problem; if you have a book in your to-read (or even currently reading) list, it shouldn't show up in your recommendations list. I think the feature would be better if it recommended books you haven't added whatsoever, to help you find new and interesting books to read.
Now that we have readalongs it would be nice to have them promoted so they are easier to find and join. For example seeing in the community page whenever a friend joins a readalong or when a readalong is created for a book in your tbr.
It would be good to see if there is an active readalong going of a book when you're going to mark it as currently reading.
I love the "up next" feature, but as a chronic mood reader who is usually reading 10+ books, I find that I'm always going off the rails. It would be cool to be able to mark books as high, medium, or low priority. Then it could be a sorting criteria when looking for a new book to read in my massive TBR. That way I could differentiate between books that I'm extremely interested in reading vs stuff I'd like to read if I get around to it.