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Recommend Books I Own
Mar 6, 2021
Currently in the Your Recommendations section, there's an option to only recommend books I don't own, or books not in my TBR, but would it be possible to add an option to only show books I own? I would love to browse the recommendations section knowing I can go pick up any of the books I see recommended based on the StoryGraph algorithm
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I would love to have an option to view books in my TBR and Owned categories! my goal for 2024 is to read through my physical TBR so I (among many other readers) would benefit massively from this feature! I understand that there are work arounds, but it would be really handy and beneficial to base it on my current reading mood etc as I have books I TBR'ed when I was in my early teens and now I'm approaching 30 and looking for completely different things.
The reason we filter them out is because owned books might show up, but they might not! The books a person owns may not be the best recommendations for someone or may not appear in our recommendation pool. For some people though, they do get a high proportion of recs of books they already own, but they're looking for new books, and so we give them the option to filter them out.
As @lalu says, a good option for now is to filter your TBR pile based on your owned books, or filter your Owned Books pile directly.
We might still be able to offer something like this in the future though, especially as the pool of books we're recommending from continues to grow!
You can click on your TBR pile or on Owned Books and filter them by mood, genre, pace etc.
I know it's not the same as the Recommendations, but pretty close imo.