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Option to exclude certain books from Stats page
Mar 10, 2021
Add a checkbox to a book's page that would exclude that book from your stats page and the annual book/page challenge. This would be helpful if you don't want to track certain books (such as reference books) but still want to be able to mark them read/review them.
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I think this is still less than ideal. To give an example, I had this idea in response to The StoryGraph Genre Challenge because the challenge requires reading a poetry book and graphic novel. I generally don't read either of these genres which is why I don't want them tracked in my stats or other challenges, but I do want them to count for the Genre Challenge which I don't believe it would without the dates.
Hello! If you don't want a book to show up in your yearly stats, you could just mark it as 'read' without first marking it as currently-reading so that it doesn't get today's date added to it! Alternatively, if it already has a date, you can change it by using the arrows and just hitting the blank box at the top of all three boxes and clicking update (I've attached an image!)
They will still show up in your all-time stats, but not your yearly ones/book challenge :D
Abbie a lack of this feature is preventing me from fully moving to Storygraph because I want to keep track of the year I read xyz picture book but I don't want to include it in my actual goal so currently I just keep a separate list of books read on a separate service.
If it's crazy hard to build I understand but just not including a date read is not a solution.
caitlin_bookchats Hi Caitlin! It's not about it being crazy hard to build (we don't shy away from those in any case) — something like this just hasn't been a priority, but we always keep the feedback of our users in mind when setting the priority list!
Nadia I will second Caitlin on this, though for different reasons. I am in grad school and read multiple books a week for class and research. I would like to be able to track that reading, with dates because that is important data to have. But I do not want work and study reading to be included in my stats or frankly, to influence my algorithm. I might read and perhaps even enjoy some of these books, but I am reading them because they are required and I do not want recommendations based on them.
At the moment, I have to choose between tracking all that separately (as Caitlin does, for admittedly different reasons) or allowing my data to be influenced (which would take away from the use-case of SG for me.)
The larger point being, the checkbox seems like a simple solution that would serve multiple purposes. My (yes, very specific) example being just one.