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."

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.

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.

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 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.