I would like a more intuitive way to add or correct older data in my reading history.
Currently, my reading journal is a mix of books with daily/weekly updates, books with start and end dates only or other books with only end dates.
This is mainly due to transferring my data from outside Storygraph so older data is not as good as newer data added to Storygraph. I’ve tried going back through my data and manually fixing start and end dates, but I stopped because I don’t feel like I have good visibility on what effect my changes are having. In particular, on reading stats (yearly/monthly) and streaks.
I can of course go check my stats and recalculate streaks after each change to see but I feel like there could be a better way.
If I had a few tools like:
- Ability to see/edit reading journal entries across selected dates.
- Access to a graph that show pages/books read on selected dates.
- Ability to add journal entries for books read a decade ago.
- If we know our reading pace this could allow users to smooth out their streaks (daily/weekly etc.)
- Allowing data points on the graph to be clicked to see the book/page data underneath.
- Allow easy refreshing of these tools so as not to lose “place” or context.
- Add some documentation on what counts as pages read (100% vs page count vs page number and how they interact).
- And documentation on how to manage/curate your reading history using these tools.
Hopefully, this makes sense on what I’d like to see. Let me know if I can add clarification.
Thank you for the feedback. This post spans several smaller posts, some of which already exist. It's been noted and will likely be archived as it's not something that's manageable as a post in its own right.