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This is where you can see reading updates of the people you follow. There is also a link that will take you to your 'In Progress' collection so that you can quickly update any books that you are currently reading.

The quotes feed is a place where you can be inspired by beautiful quotes from authors using Storylace. If you're an author, this is a great way to promote your book with the Storylace community, simply claim your author profile to get started.

Library

Your library is organized by default into 5 base collections or statuses. Every book that you add to your library needs to have one of these 5 statuses: Under Consideration, To Be Read, In Progress, Abandoned, Read or Being Reread. You can create custom collections in your library and add your books to them. Note that a single book in your library can belong to as many collections as you want. You can also have collections inside collections.

You can also add to your books any tags you want. Your tags are not used as Public Tags for the books, so feel free to use anything you want, they're just for your personal library's organization. Unless your book is private, your tags and collections can be seen by anyone.

Regarding the statuses, what's the difference between UC and TBR? This status separation exists so that you have the option of keeping your TBR clean if you want, filled only with books that you are certainly going to be reading in the near future.

And how is Read different from Being Reread? If you mark a book as Being Reread then it will still count as if you have already read it at least once (for purposes of your stats, quests, and so on).

Art

Theater

We at Storylace have partnered with awesome authors to bring their stories to life through an immersive art experience. The Storylace Theater is where you can enjoy these experiences. Choose any book from our list of Registered Stories. Remember that you can get the book from anywhere you like outside of Storylace.

Book Art & Fanart

Anyone can upload art for any book. Sometimes it's fun to make a creative tribute for a book and share it with a cool community of booklovers. In this page you'll be able to browse through the book-inspired art gallery.

Stats

Here you can see a nice report and graphs drawn from the books that you have in your library. It gets even better when you keep track of both Start Dates and End Dates of your reads, so make sure to fill up those when you start and finish reading a book.

You can see your Stats from All-Time or by year. The years available in the dropdown are based on the Read Dates that there are on your books.

The All-Time reading speed will not show you your all-time reading speed but rather your reading speed based on your last 10 reads. This is calculated using the Read Dates so don't set those in My Book panel. When you are looking at your stats for a specific year, that uses all your reads of that year to calculate your final reading speed of said year.

Quests

Reading books and stories is one of the most amazing ways of growing as a person. It's also a great way to discover more of oneself. The Storylace Quests are a fun way to discover where you've been, where you are and where you're going in your reading journey. They vary in difficulty, and after completing these quests you deserve some rewards. These rewards are simply tokens in the form of crystals, titles, masks, and trophies that we hope will help you remember fondly the epic reading journey you've been through.

The Book Memory Lane is a special kind of quest. Every year you can set a goal of how many books you want to read. Note that rereads on your favorite books count, of course. You can also set the goal as number of pages or hours of audiobooks if you prefer. We hope this quest will help you relive some magical moments and bring back some sweet memories.

How do I import my Book Tracking data from another website?

We currently support importing your book tracking data from Goodreads, LibraryThing and The Storygraph. You can do so in Account Settings. Your entire library will be imported. Note that there is some data that the other platforms do not export, therefore you would have to add it here manually. For example, Goodreads does not export Start Dates of your reads.

How do I add a new book to my library?

You may search for a book edition in the search bar at the top of the page. Once you're on that page, you can use the My Book button to open the My Book panel. There, you can select your status for that book and hit the Save button, that's it. If you want to do it even faster, there's a button with a lightning icon next to My Book which opens the Quick Add menu. Selecting any status will automatically put the book in your library as well.

Note that if you mark a book as 'In Progress', that automatically adds a new read for you with a Start Date of today.

How do I add a book that is not in the Storylace database?

In your library, at the bottom of the page, there is a link that takes you to a form where you can create a new book. This book is not immediately added to the Storylace database, it's first reviewed by a Storylace Librarian. Please fill in as much information about the book as you can to make things easier and get it into the database as soon as possible. Thank you so much for your contributions.

How do I fix incorrect book data?

You can either become a librarian to acquire the ability to fix things immediately yourself, or you use theSuggest an Edit button in the book edition or author's page to send librarians a note of what's wrong.

What are the genres and their definitions?

Please take a look at our Genres page.

Can I add a single book to multiple quests?

Of course! Part of the fun comes from discovering how different books that you've read contributes towards completing multiple quests.

What can I use crystals for?

The crystals obtained through quests are just for fun, a simple token of celebration for your reading achievements! You can see other users' crystal counts to get an instant idea of how many quests they have completed in case you want to browse the books that they have read to complete their favorite quests.

What counts as a reread?

Books that have multiple read dates in My Book will count as rereads.

What generates a notification?

Following someone, liking their reading updates, commenting on their reading updates or liking their comments will send them a notification.

Checking affinities does NOT generate notifications. Upvoting reviews does NOT generate notifications either. In the future we may implement notifications to tell people an aggregate number of upvotes that their reviews have obtained.