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Mark authors/books as "will not read"
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booksthatburnApr 5, 2021
There are certain authors who might fit my usual genres/styles which I enjoy but which I am purposefully not reading for various reasons. I'd like to be able to preemptively exclude them so they won't be recommended to me. If possible, having them show up in searches but have a flag that on the book listing to indicate they're on my do-not-read list would be nice. Right now I'm making due with using a tag, but it means that I have tagged some books I don't want to ever read.
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This is so useful! I definitely have authors I choose to stick far away from for various reasons so having a "will not read" category and a reason would be incredible!
I'd also like to have the option to give an explanation to either the author as a whole or an individual book. Similar to how we are able to add explanations to why we did not finish a book. In a year or so, I might not remember what exactly an author was doing that caused me to avoid them in the first place. And I'd also like that information to be public for my friends who might be considering reading that title/author.
It looks like @booksthatburn wants to do it preemptively, so they never show up in the first place!
We'll probably have an interface to do this in the future!
Hello! You can do this either for a specific book or for an author by clicking the 'x' when they show up in your Recommendations (see screenshot attached!). This tells us you don't want to see either that particular book or any book by that particular author ever again, and they won't show up in your Recs. :-)