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Conversation starters in buddy reads and book clubs?

What would get you talking more in a buddy read or book club?

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Do you like the pills under the tabs, or do they take too much space?

Do the pills under the tabs help you get around, or do they take too much space? Keep them, make them smaller, or hide them?

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A I Personalized reading preferences

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying it. We're looking at a note on the book page showing how a book lines up with your own ratings and the books you've finished. No AI: it would show you exactly which of your books it's based on, so you can see why.

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Better experience

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks for thinking about the travel case. Most of the app already works without signal: logging progress, changing a book's status, shelves, tags, notes, reviews and settings are saved on your phone and sent once you're back online, and covers you've already seen stay available. The "What works" button on the offline banner lists it all. Adding a book by hand is the part that still needs a connection, because we check it against the catalogue first so you don't end up with a copy of a book we already have. We're keeping this open and watching for other readers who want it.

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Would you want a Simple mode that hides parts of the app?

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks everyone, your replies shaped this. Simple mode is built: a switch in Settings, under Appearance. Turn it on and the book page drops the extras: the Next tab, and Info sections like characters, FAQs, awards and contributors, plus some of the My Book details. You can also hide the Community tab, community notifications, the badge and quiz cards, and the Series, Authors and Lists tabs in your Library. Each part can be brought back one at a time, and nothing is deleted. Home switches to a short layout with your current book, today's reading and what's next. If you only want to track your reading, one "Tracking only" button hides everything social and makes your profile private. We also simplified the Info page for everyone, whatever this setting is. Characters, awards, FAQs and the like now sit in closed rows with a one-line hint of what's inside, so you open only what you want and don't hit spoilers by accident. The page is about a third shorter. This starts rolling out soon.

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Sync isn't updating pages read when book is finished

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks for the report, Joe. We found the cause. Your reader sent 100%, but we held it back until a second update confirmed it, and a finished book never sends one. We're releasing a fix now. Once it's live, Dark Matter will move to 100% on its own and you don't need to do anything.

Open Idea 0

Put your own books in order on a shelf

We're considering two changes to custom shelves, so a shelf like "2026 reads" can hold your books in the order you want: - Drag books into any order you like, and the shelf keeps it. - Sort a custom shelf by "Date read", the way the Read shelf already can. Today a shelf sorts by the day a book joined your library, not the day you put it on that shelf, so a hand-built order can shuffle itself. Would you use either of these? Vote and tell us in the replies which one you'd reach for, and how you'd use it.

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What's the logic for books moving from want to read, or in queue to reading?

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks for asking. Finishing a book never moves other books on its own, so this was a bug on our side, not something you did. The Great Gatsby and The Epic of Gilgamesh both had a small saved spot from your e-reader back in September. An hourly check on our end used that spot to put them back on Reading, even after you had moved them to Want to read. Your queue shifted up as a result. We've fixed it so that check no longer touches a book's shelf. It goes live with our next server update. Sorry for the shuffle, and you now choose what sits on Reading.

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Signed Copy Editions

Sabri Ben Chaabane: You can now add the jacket ISBN to an existing edition. Open the edition, suggest a correction, and enter the jacket ISBN as an alternate ISBN. Once it's accepted, searching or scanning either ISBN finds the same book, and the edition shows "Also found under" with the extra one.

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Reading Goals - Chapter

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Chapter goals are live. Open your daily goal, choose Chapters next to minutes and pages, and pick how many a day. The goal card counts the chapters you move past. It works for books that have a contents list.

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TBR

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Hi Lindsey, thanks for the suggestion! Could you tell us a bit more about what you picture by a monthly TBR? For example, is it a list of the books you plan to read this month, separate from your main to-read shelf, that you can look back on at the end of the month to see what you actually finished? Or something closer to a monthly goal, or a card you can share? And how do you keep one today, if you do (a shelf you rename each month, notes, somewhere else)? Knowing how you use it will help us work out the right way to build it. Thank you!

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Reading pace doesn't update when using koreader plugin

Sabri Ben Chaabane: The fix is live, Simon. Reading you sync from KOReader now counts toward your Reading pace, so the widget updates from your e-reader sessions as well. Pace needs a few sessions with both pages and minutes before it shows a number, so give it a few reading sessions.

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Book covers should update after changing editions

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks for such a clear write-up, you were right. When you switched a book to another edition, your monthly reading charts, the calendar, the reading timeline and the stats cards (shortest and longest book, audiobooks finished) kept showing the book's original cover. They now use the cover of the edition you picked, and the exported images pick it up too. The fix goes live with our next update, and after that you won't need to do anything. Images you've already exported won't change, so just export them again. If a book still shows the old cover on your shelves after that, tell us which one and we'll look at it.

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Profile Photo Private

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks again for suggesting this, Marina. It's live. In your privacy settings there's now a Profile photo option. Set it to followers only and everyone else sees the default picture, on comments, posts and in clubs. If you don't see it yet, reopen the app to pick up the latest update.

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Koreader sync isn't working. It's stuck at 4 pages even though I've been reading for over an hour.

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Hi! Thanks for reporting this, and congrats on finishing There Is No Antimemetics Division. Your sync is working. Your 81 minutes today came through correctly. The pages are where it went wrong. We only count up to the book's full page count on one read, so a 288-page book can't go past 288. Your Kindle counted about an eighth of the book twice over the past few weeks, which usually happens when you flip back to re-read. Your earlier days had already used up nearly all 288 pages, so today only had 4 left. That's why your pages goal showed as missed on the day you finished the book. That's on us, not you, and we're looking at how to make your daily pages reflect what you actually read that day. About the two rings: that change was on purpose. Having two goals at once confused a lot of readers, so the daily goal is now one target, either minutes or pages, whichever suits you better. Sorry it caught you by surprise. We should have told readers who had both set before we changed it.

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horizontal mode for ipad

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Landscape on iPad is out. Update Seekquel from the App Store, then turn your iPad sideways and the app uses the same wide layout as the website.

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integration with kindle app or amazon account

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks for the suggestion. The Kindle app is closed software and Amazon gives no official way to read a person's reading progress, highlights or library from it, so there is nothing for us to connect to. KOReader is the only way we can sync reading properly, because it is open and our add-on runs inside it. Until then, the reading timer and manual progress work with any app, and you can bring in shelves, ratings and dates from Goodreads, StoryGraph or Hardcover through the import screen.

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Can’t access Seekquel outside the US

Sabri Ben Chaabane: No, you shouldn't need a VPN to use Seekquel while traveling, including syncing from KOReader on your Kobo. I checked access from Tunisia and could reach Seekquel, so this isn't a general US-only restriction. I haven't confirmed what's blocking your connection yet. Could you tell me which country you're visiting, whether the app fails on Wi-Fi, mobile data, or both with the VPN off, and the exact messages shown by the app and KOReader? If possible, also open https://api.seekquel.app/up in your phone's browser with the VPN off and tell me what appears. A screenshot of any error page would help narrow this down.

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Importing a missing edition says the ISBN already exists, but it doesn't appear in the list

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks Simon, you were right: that edition was already in Seekquel, but the edition list wasn't letting you find it. This is fixed on the website. Open The Haunting of Hill House, choose Editions and search for 9780141927541. The Penguin eBook from 2009 now appears with its cover and 256 pages. You can open that copy from the row. The list also loads more editions, and entering an existing ISBN in Add edition now points you to the copy already there. On the app, accept the latest app update first.

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Search page doesn't react to top-level search

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks Henrik, both search boxes should work. This is fixed on the website, and I checked your exact flow: after searching for Darkness of Light, entering Haunting of Hill House in the top search box updates the results and the search box on the page. Going back restores the previous search too. Reload the website, or accept the latest app update if you're using the app.

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Library view suggestions

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks Henrik, list view now shows the format of the copy you're tracking, alongside audiobook length when that length is known. This is available in your shelves and All books on the website; the app needs the latest update. It shows your selected copy's format, rather than every format the catalogue holds for that title. Missing audiobook lengths still need to be added to the edition.

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Book edition view suggestions

Sabri Ben Chaabane: Thanks Henrik, the edition rows have now been updated. Each row shows its ISBN, or its ASIN when there is no ISBN. An edition with a different title leads with that title, with its format and year beneath it. Missing details are listed so you can see what still needs filling in. Audiobook length appears whenever it has been added; an unknown length is shown as a missing detail. This is live on the website and included in the latest app update.