Goodreads ratings become more granular

issybird · Yesterday, 07:24 PM

As of October 5, it’s possible to rate books on Goodreads with half and even quarter stars. I just noticed it this evening.

I know this is a change that a lot of people have wanted for a long time. It never seemed that important to me (and certainly quarter stars are hard to parse), but I admit that I’ve thought it would be useful to have a 3½ star rating. Three stars is my baseline and there certainly have been many books which beat basic expectations but still didn’t rise to four stars. I’m going to try to avoid the temptation to use the ½ star to augment other levels.

Uncle Robin · Yesterday, 10:54 PM

When I heard of this the idea I took it as proof that The Storygraph especially is finally becoming big enough for Amazon to notice. Goodreads is infamous for having added NO new features for more than a decade, TSG started with 1/4 stars more than 6 years ago and it seems has now reached the point where Amazon decided it needed to slow the migration

nana77 · Yesterday, 11:36 PM

While I have not a lot of content to chart on, anyway, I was to think Storygraph relied - mostly - on Goodreads as for the books' descriptions, thought it doesn't seems always the case:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216752459-star-wars
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/...f-02ec014631a3
I mean, in there Storygraph has a correct authors' details.

Yesterday, 07:24 PM	#1
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 22,220 Karma: 241025665 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Goodreads ratings become more granular As of October 5, it’s possible to rate books on Goodreads with half and even quarter stars. I just noticed it this evening. I know this is a change that a lot of people have wanted for a long time. It never seemed that important to me (and certainly quarter stars are hard to parse), but I admit that I’ve thought it would be useful to have a 3½ star rating. Three stars is my baseline and there certainly have been many books which beat basic expectations but still didn’t rise to four stars. I’m going to try to avoid the temptation to use the ½ star to augment other levels.

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Yesterday, 10:54 PM	#2
Uncle Robin Diligent dilettante Posts: 3,786 Karma: 52758936 Join Date: Sep 2019 Location: in my mind Device: Kobo Sage; Kobo Libra Colour	When I heard of this the idea I took it as proof that The Storygraph especially is finally becoming big enough for Amazon to notice. Goodreads is infamous for having added NO new features for more than a decade, TSG started with 1/4 stars more than 6 years ago and it seems has now reached the point where Amazon decided it needed to slow the migration

Yesterday, 11:36 PM	#3
nana77 Wizard Posts: 3,139 Karma: 4444444 Join Date: May 2025 Device: Kobo Forma, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	While I have not a lot of content to chart on, anyway, I was to think Storygraph relied - mostly - on Goodreads as for the books' descriptions, thought it doesn't seems always the case: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216752459-star-wars https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/...f-02ec014631a3 I mean, in there Storygraph has a correct authors' details.

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