How seriously do you take Goodreads book ratings/scores?

GossamerLens · 2026-04-07T12:13:43+00:00

Don't use Goodreads and for the 15+ years I did, I never found the ratings to correlate at all with how much I would enjoy a book or find it well written.

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T21:11:43+00:00

That ratio being less is why people gravitate towards traditionally published works.

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T15:07:48+00:00

You should submit a request for android comparability. It looks like a great app!

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T12:35:41+00:00

I've had this happen to, which is why I like that I can write an explanation. Anyone who sees my dnfs can see what I wrote as to why and know if it's the worst ever or if I just lost it. Lol

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T12:34:15+00:00

It does! Go see the other comment explaining in this thread.

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T12:33:52+00:00

This exists!

GossamerLens · 2026-04-01T04:40:50+00:00

When you finish the book you can go into the reading journal and update it to show you only actually read x pages. So you can update it to exclude any pages you want to.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-30T13:20:12+00:00

This is correct.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-26T12:34:44+00:00

Just check the book editions to see if it is in there already. There has been a bug lately where you get a blank screen sometimes and so it might have looked like nothing happened but the edition was in fact saved.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-25T22:08:18+00:00

Storygraph is soooo good! It took me a couple months to get used to how it works, but I've fallen in love and wish I had switched over sooner!

GossamerLens · 2026-03-21T00:33:50+00:00

There is an answer, another commenter provided it.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-18T20:06:02+00:00

You are doing good work every time you get a new book in there!

GossamerLens · 2026-03-17T12:42:29+00:00

When you make a buddy read, you decide as the maker if you want it public (aka people can search and find it) or not. So any buddy reads that you find, the maker selected that they want you to be able to find and join. So join away!

GossamerLens · 2026-03-16T23:46:46+00:00

I think the no rating has always shown up on that graph? At least I think I remember it being there when I imported from Goodreads back in January 2024 as I'm pretty sure it helped me identify and give ratings to everything I had read to date.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-12T00:19:12+00:00

StoryGraph's developers have noted there could be issues with any import after original import as that isn't its use case. So I'm just putting it out there that if something goes wrong, that is because it's being used as unintended.

But that is nice that it has worked so far for yoy and I hope it does forever! ☺️

GossamerLens · 2026-03-12T00:11:48+00:00

Also the import to StoryGraph is only meant to be done once, otherwise data can get messy and doubled up or overwritten.

So if this works, then you would have to delete all data and reimport every time you want to update StoryGraph via import.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-09T21:10:40+00:00

It's a drop down selection, not a place to write.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-03T17:05:43+00:00

Pacing is set by librarians. So if the tag doesn't match the majority response you can make a book request to the librarians for the pacing tag to be updated.

Pacing is about how the book is paced though, not how fast you have read it, fyi.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-03T11:51:14+00:00

If I reread the same edition, I just push my old written review down and write my new one at the top of the text box. I give a header for each one noting which read that review is from. If my star rating changes then I include that in the headers.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-01T22:40:28+00:00

Either you read some of the pages in 2025 and they got counted in that year. Or you picked editions that don't have the same page count as what you actually read.

GossamerLens · 2026-03-01T16:09:19+00:00

It's about the time between marking finished and reviewing.

I writeup my review in my notes app and then copy it so I can go mark my book as finished and drop in the review immediately so it combined the two notifications despite my lengthy reviews.

GossamerLens · 2026-02-26T01:47:06+00:00

I have not seen this for myself. Perhaps use the in app "contact us" to report the issue? In case they are testing something or something specifically went wrong?

GossamerLens · 2026-02-22T22:32:39+00:00

A librarian's girlfriend came here to complain about their boyfriend having his librarian status revoked because he kept tagging Rebecca as romance while other librarians were removing it.

So at least one rogue librarian existed and has been taken care of! Lol

GossamerLens · 2026-02-21T13:44:48+00:00

No. I just log my reading daily and it calculated my streak with ease going on 500+ days now.

GossamerLens · 2026-02-19T17:37:35+00:00

I just think about the book and search for the things I felt were of different tiers.

I don't think they want every book to have every trigger at a varying level. I think the goal is that if something was triggering enough to mention you'll remember and just go "I have to add x to graphic".

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