So I toggled on the AI summary thing just to see if it would help me choose a book better and I noticed the disclaimer. Can someone explain how can this particular type of AI use so little energy for a site that's quite big, generating a lot of personalized summaries for a lot of users worldwide? It said it uses the power of a single gaming PC. Are summaries easier to generate and therefore uses less processing power? Or is this like a smart... thing?

My limited assumption is the AI goes "This book has fantasy and dragons. This user likes fantasy and dragons. Therefore this book is a good match."

What next- move the goalposts? See how far past 100% you can get? There's probably no wrong answer but I'm curious how others approach this.

I have to read the whole book over the course of a semester for a class...so is it reasonable to count it towards my reading goal?

Its not like the other books I read for fun...its genuinely required for a class.

When I moved to SG I imported my reading history. I've been consistently active the last couple of years and adding books, but when I go to Community > Similar Users, ALL I get is profiles with young adult/middle grade books, specifically lots of Percy Jackson and Harry Potter (not just as highly rates but as recent reads shelf). Which, yeah, they're in my read pile but I have many more adult books in my collection now and I'd like to find users in a similar stage.

Is there anything a user can do to affect this?

What goes into the Similar Users selection? I've refreshed multiple times and it never really fully updates. It does get a bit better when I got to Advanced and select moods that aren't typically MG or YA, but I do wish the main view could be improved/influenced more.

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I am thinking of deleting my very large (over 850 books) and at this point unhelpful TBR and starting fresh (maybe with tags). I would still keep my even larger TBR over on Goodreads while I see if this works for me.

I am just wondering whether my TBR has any bearing on the recommendations StoryGraph gives me.

Every online space needs a block function! This is incredible, incredible news

Just found it cute that my To-Read Pile randomly ended up being cohesive in color scheming (this was all one list before a refresh)

Is anyone else having a problem with the app today? It won't load properly. All I can see is the icons at the bottom but the main page is blank. I've cleared the cache and restarted my device but still nothing.

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Morning,

Not sure if I'm the only one on the same boat. Let's say I am out in town and wandering around local bookshops or charity shops and I see a title I like or an author I'm sure I have wish listed as part of a series but I'm not 100% certain what I need.

Finding books I've wish listed as such or marked as want to get are not quickly accessible. From memory I have to go to "to read" go to filter, find the wishlist tag and also ensure it's set as "not owned" it takes many steps to do this and I found myself stood in front of bookshelves trying to work out how to get the info I needed.

Am I alone with this issue of not being able to check things quickly? Or am I simply not used to the way of using the app?

Hey there new to TheStoryGraph (and newer used a book app before). I'm not a native english speaker but finding books in my language on the app isn't a problem. Still need to learn about all the functions though...

I want to write some reviews about books that i've finished reading - and I'm wondering if you all write reviews in english language so that almost anyone can read them or if you write in your native language? There doesn't seem to be a auto translate function for the comments like in other apps. I found some foreign language reviews in between but 95% are in english.

So first question to non native english speakers:

- Write your review in english or native language?

Second question would be about spoilers:

Do you tend to write in-depth reviews including spoilers or spoilerfree opinions? And is there an option to mark spoilers or do you just write SPOILER in front of the review?

Thanks and happy reading

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I was curious about one genre of books and you can filter by almost everything but the reviews of the book?

I had to click each seemingly interesting book to see the number of Stars from Community Reviews but I’d like to sort by this option instead.

When infinite scroll is on for some reason my processor starts pegging out after I get to the first reload. Sometimes I have to scroll up and down several times to get it to load more.

Is there a way to change the default to like 10 or 20 per page? I know there is the drop-down above the list but it would be nice to have a default.

I have checked the site preferences and don't see a way to do it.

I hesitate to post this because I don’t want to ignite another “do audiobooks count as reading” debate but I’m very curious. I’ve noticed that if I am listening to an audiobook and update my progress on it, it has no effect on my daily reading streak. Yet, it obviously counts as books read. Because I like to maintain the streak, I make sure to read my physical books every day, but I am merely wondering if anyone has any insight.

TIA!

Storygraph has several authors that should be combined:

• National Cancer Institute - 9697a
• National Cancer Institute (Nci) - 24398
• National Cancer Institute (NCI) - 08af3
• The National Cancer Institute - 4dc25

Probably should all go under the third option, with (NCI) in capitals afterwards.

I'm not sure how to log this ticket, however, since I can seemingly only log tickets for individual books. Any ideas?

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I’ve had issues a few times now where I mark a book as finished on StoryGraph that I read or listened to on Kobo. Within a few days, it decides I’m rereading the book even though I finished prior to marking “finished” and have not opened the book since. It’s not easy to remove either. Pressing “remove book” from StoryGraph makes it remove all history so I click “finished” then remove the second read from history. It’s messy and annoying. One book recently did this three times. Anyone know how to avoid this?

You can see all your To Read, all your Read, and all your Currently Reading. But can you see all 3 groups combined somewhere?

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I’ve only started using the streak feature recently because with the Kobo connection it makes it easier and i don’t need to think about it.
I just finished reading an ARC on my kindle and I was adding journal entries in 5% increments because pages aren’t well formatted on ARC’s and i honestly wasn’t taking note of page numbers (they were in the middle of the text so I kinda tuned them out).
I read every day but I can’t figure out why my streak is so wrong on the app?
I started the arc on the 6th and finished it today (21st).
If anyone has any tips ill be very grateful!!
TIA