This post has been merged into Pagination for book lists: paged view instead of infinite scroll
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Filter by first letter of title
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hookerkittyNov 9, 2024
So we can filter our to-read list alphabetically from A-Z or Z-A, but if you have a huge to-read list (like me), it would take AGES to get to titles that start with a specific letter, which can be a pain when you're trying to complete an A-Z challenge. I don't expect to be able to do this for all the books, but it would be really helpful if we could at least apply it for our to-read pile.
(and it'd be even cooler if we could filter for books with a question mark [or maybe any symbol?], as one of my book bingo challenge prompts for this year was "a book whose title is a question")
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Merged this into a relevant "paged view" post for now.
Actually having the option for pages would work too! I still have my goodreads account and discovered they have the option to switch to pages instead of infinite scroll (at least on my laptop anyway, and you can choose how many books per page), which made it MUCH easier. Yeah it doesn't take me directly to what letters I wanted to look at, but I can still get to where I need quicker. Plus I'm guessing that would be WAY less coding for you haha
hookerkitty It's never about what's less coding though. Only about what the best option is for our users! :-D
hookerkitty And as a hack on StoryGraph (app.thestorygraph.com) on your laptop add "?page=x" at the end of your TBR page link and change 'x' to what page you'd like!
Thank you for the suggestion. This pain point — getting to the middle of your list, especially given one of the prompts in our onboarding reading challenge this year, re reading a book that starts with the first letter of your name — has come up a few times. We may switch to pages, instead of infinite scroll for certain views, which will help make this easier, though I recognise that's not specifically what you've asked for!