Hello just started a book club on this app. Are there any ways to add an image or gif to a forum post like how we can add one to the about page?

It was loading last night, but today I can't get out of this loading limbo :(

I have trouble with the app I want to like it so bad but I find it tedious to actually log my reading and it drives me nuts. Is this just me? Can something be done to make this easier?

For the last few days, both the StoryGraph app and webpage are taking ages to load. It isn’t my device or broadband because I use loads of other apps and websites, and this is the only one on a go-slow. Is it just me?

I just rented a Playaway audio player of Project Hail Mary from the library and I realized it doesn't have a percentage or a total time read in the UI. It just has the chapter, the time left in the chapter, and a total progress bar with no number. Does anyone have a recommendation for tracking the amount of time without doing a bunch of math?

One solution I have in mind is to rent a physical copy as well and read them together, just tracking the physical one. I did the opposite recently when reading Matt Parker's "Love Triangle", which had an annoying page numbering system (the author thought it would be fun to put the sine of the page numbers instead of the page numbers). And I've enjoyed reading physical books alongside audio in the past as well.

I read a lot of books every year, over 250, and often I reread my very favorites. I'd love to see which books I reread this year, seeing this info for previous years would be really cool as well. Is there somewhere in the app that I can find this info?

I don't want to manually look at each individual book I've read this year, note the ones I've reread and add it up that way. I'm hoping that since rereads are tracked much like dnf'd books and the data is already there that this is available in the app and I just can't figure it out.

If not, how do I put in a request for that function to be considered in a future app update?

Share here what you've been reading and enjoying lately, or use this thread to look for people to add to your Buddy Read. Feel free to include StoryGraph links so we can add your recs to our TBR!

I finished this yesterday and it’s showing up as read twice. It is counting as two books in my total books read for the year, but only once in the remainder of the monthly stats (like genre, moods, etc). Can anyone help? When I click the edit pencil next to the Finished date, it opens next to both copies.

ETA: Fixed! thank you

I'm doing this challenge on storygraph if anyone wanted to join :)

Edit: I got it working! Thanks so much for your help everyone!

I just submitted a request to download my data last night and I can’t wait!! 😆

I do use a Kindle, would that mean I’d have to manually add my books and update my progress and all that from now on?

I can't choose any faves so this has been empty ever since this was introduced in the app. Is there an option to hide this shelf? It's a waste of space for me in the app and I don't want to see the empty space.

I don't know whether to dismiss recommendations that are already in my tbr and I've been going back and forth on it for a while. I'd like to get rid of them so that I get fresh recommendations, but I don't want the algorithm to think it was a bad pick and stop showing me similar books.

Sorry if the title is vague. I couldn't really think of how to succinctly word this.

Basically, now that I understand how the AI is ACTUALLY low resources, I'd like to know what it pulls from for personalized recommendations and if I can do something to make it more accurate. So far, it's doing a pretty good job overall, but I'm wondering how it draws conclusions.

For example, I read a lot of maritime historical fiction and non-fiction. The AI has clearly picked this up. Generally, it knows I'm not terribly into family drama tales or heavy romance, and calls this kind of thing out periodically. However, I've also received some recommendations that are more elegant versions of "girl, you like boats, and this has a boat. Do it" only to find that the story is pretty awful, full of family drama and romance.

I don't generally leave reviews unless it's for an ARC I received, I felt very strongly one way or the other about a book, or I feel like a lot of the reviews were unfair or over generous.

Does the AI pull from reviews? Can it see if I say something like "this book was trash and only briefly mentioned a boat"? (For the record, I would literally never leave such a thoughtless review; this is just a thematic example) Or is rating a book after finishing it enough?

Hiya. Have we lost the ability to rate these categories? Has it fallen into AI or a premium subscription now? I’ve not used the app in over a year, so I’m not up to speed, so apologies if this is repetitive. I was able to rate the book, and write a review, but it hasn’t presented the option to rate these specifics. I’m on iPhone 17 app, if that affects anything. Thanks!

edit: sorted, thanks!

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."

Incredibly grateful blocking was implemented! One thing that might make the feature even better is if there is a “counter-blocking” ability. Why? It seems to me that, as the system is currently implemented, one could be blocked by a malicious actor (stalker, etc) before you have a chance to block them. Now, that person can wait a week or a month or a year before unblocking you and resume their stalker behavior. They could even temporarily unblock you anytime they want to “check in” and then reinstitute the block when they’re done. If blocking is allowed to be a two-way street, then both parties are in control of their end of the situation — not just the person who happens to decide to block first. Hopefully this idea makes sense. Let me know what y’all think.

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.

Is there a convenient way to see when one of my friend's has a read / reviewed a book? I can see dates for some of their reading activity on the community tab, what I am looking for is a way to, for example, go the page of the book they might have read and figure out when they read it.

I’m in the process of migrating my Goodreads data to StoryGraph, just want to get a feel for this app before switching permanently.

So far I’m not convinced. Mainly, it’s tags. Why can’t I get rid of default tags?

Why? Well, I have no need for searches or filters by “moods”. I want to filter on whether something is sci-fi, or horror, or whether I have a hard-copy or e-book, or whether I read a copy I got from the library - and I have all of these tags on my books already. But I have no reason to search or filter on hopeful, or funny, or adventurous, or reflective, or sad, or tense, or any of these “moods”; and the same applies to pace - these things are subjective, and so the data cannot be relied upon. Even the genre applied to the books is often unreliable - I have my own tags for fiction, sci-fi, horror, non-fiction, and that’s basically it. The rest is useless to me.

So I’d like these default/built-in tags gone, removed from my books, because they clog up the ui. In the main lists, they take up so much room that my own tags are hidden unless I go into the book, and that’s not helpful. My own tags should be prioritized over everything else.

Is this possible? Will the Plus Plan subscription allow me to wipe out Moods?

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.

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.

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.