I would like to request improvements to the recommendation system, specifically how it connects recommendations to a user’s actual reading activity. At the moment, the books being recommended to me do not appear to meaningfully relate to the books I have already read, recently finished, rated, or even added to my TBR.

Even after completing the preference survey and actively maintaining my reading data, the recommendations feel disconnected from my demonstrated tastes. They do not seem to reflect patterns from my reading history, my recent reads, or the types of books I intentionally save to my TBR. As a result, the recommendations often feel random rather than personalized.

Because of this, I no longer rely on the recommendation feature and instead use reading challenges as a workaround to discover books, by exploring what other titles appear within those challenges. While that approach works to some extent, it highlights that the recommendation system itself is not functioning effectively for my use case.

It would greatly improve the experience if recommendations more clearly accounted for recent reads, highly rated books, recurring genres or tropes, and intentional TBR additions. Right now, there feels like a missing connection between my reading data and what is being suggested.