Choosing the next book can be the hardest part of finishing one. MyBibliotheca’s Suggest a book option uses recent books from your library to request three ideas, each with a reason to consider it. You can review the suggestions and add one to Plan to read when it sounds right.

Start from your own library

Open Suggest a book from the Dashboard or My library. MyBibliotheca uses recent books in your collection as the basis for the suggestions. The three results are ideas to review, not automatic additions to your shelves. Choose Add to library only for a book you want to keep in your reading queue.

A recommendation you add goes to Plan to read. Its title and author come from the suggestion, and a cover is included when one is available. You can edit the title, author, status, cover, rating, and notes afterward.

Keep your next read list organized

Plan to read is the broader list of books you might want later. Move an especially appealing title to Up next when you want it closer at hand. My TBR can hold private lists, priorities, and moods to help you sort the queue.

There is no need to accept every suggestion. My TBR also includes a Pick my next book option that chooses among your unread books and respects the filters you set.

Related features: Get recommendations from your recent reads · Organize your TBR with My TBR · Reading statuses

The Commons includes public author profiles and book catalogue information. If you are an author, MyBibliotheca lets you submit a claim for a matching profile, or provide your published author name when you cannot find one. Claims are reviewed before an approved author page can be edited.

Submit a claim with clear references

Create and verify a MyBibliotheca account, then open The Commons from the account menu and choose Claim your author profile. Search for your published name. If the right author record appears, select it; otherwise continue with the name you publish under.

A claim includes two references, with up to three allowed. A retailer or book sales page plus your official website or social profile can help show the connection between you and the author name. The claim remains pending until reviewed, and MyBibliotheca sends the result to your account email. Submit one claim at a time.

Keep your public profile and catalogue current

After approval, open the author page from Settings and choose Edit MyBibliotheca profile. You can update a biography, profile photo URL, genres, website and social links, and release dates. The public catalogue can include books that are missing from catalog providers; add their ISBN and available metadata, a cover, description, and genres.

Books from catalog providers can appear automatically. Uploaded indie-author covers are reviewed before they appear in The Commons.

Claim and management steps: Claim and manage your author profile

Your reading history is worth keeping in a form you can store yourself. MyBibliotheca lets you download a CSV export from Settings with a copy of your profile and library details. The export is generated when you request it and is not saved on MyBibliotheca’s servers.

The CSV includes your books, reading statuses, ratings, notes, start and finish dates, and reading logs. It does not include your password, login tokens, or another person’s data. Because notes and dates can be personal, keep the file somewhere secure and avoid sharing it publicly.

Download before a large change

Open Settings from the account menu and choose Download my data (CSV) under Backup your data. Save the file somewhere you trust. It can be useful before a large import or a library cleanup, when you want a reference copy of the records you have saved.

The export is a snapshot of the information currently in your account. If you add more books or sessions later, request another copy when you want an updated snapshot.

Keep control of cleanup

Removing a book or a reading session changes your library and may affect totals or streak calculations. Deleted entries cannot be recovered from MyBibliotheca, so download a backup first if you might need the record later.

Account data guides: Back up and export your data · Remove books and reading sessions · Troubleshoot common issues

Goodreads, StoryGraph, and MyBibliotheca can all help you keep track of books, but they emphasize different parts of the experience. Goodreads is widely known for shelves, ratings, and reviews. StoryGraph is popular with readers who want reading statistics and discovery tools. MyBibliotheca focuses on a personal reading record with sessions, progress, notes, and book details. If you care most about tracking your own reading life, create a free MyBibliotheca account and explore the difference with your library.

Goodreads: familiar shelves and reviews

Goodreads is often where readers have already built a large catalogue of books. Its shelves and reviews can make it useful as a place to record titles and share opinions. Readers who want more detail about the sessions between start and finish may prefer a tracker that treats progress and daily reading as first-class parts of the record.

StoryGraph: statistics and discovery

StoryGraph appeals to readers who enjoy exploring reading statistics and finding books through recommendations. If your main question is which kinds of books you read, those insights can be valuable. If you also want to record individual sessions, audiobook minutes, e-reader progress, or notes attached to books, compare those workflows before choosing where to keep your reading history.

MyBibliotheca: a detailed personal reading log

MyBibliotheca brings books together with progress, reading sessions, notes, and history across formats. You can import a supported library CSV using the library import guide, then add more detailed activity with the reading progress guide. Privacy and sharing settings let you decide what your reading page reveals; see the privacy guide.

Choose based on what you want to remember

The best tracker depends on whether you value reviews, discovery, stats, or a detailed record of your own reading. You can start without rebuilding your shelves: bring your library to MyBibliotheca and see whether session-level tracking fits the way you read.

Using KOReader? Your Goodreads or StoryGraph Alternative Should Actually Connect to Your E-Reader

If you use KOReader, you have already chosen a reading experience built around control.

You can use it across multiple e-reader platforms, customize the reading interface, work with many ebook formats, and avoid being completely dependent on one manufacturer's software.

Then you finish reading and manually type your percentage into a separate book tracker.

That is the disconnect MyBibliotheca is designed to solve.

For KOReader users searching for a Goodreads alternative or StoryGraph alternative, MyBibliotheca offers something more directly connected to the way you read: KOReader progress sync, direct KOReader highlights and notes, Readwise imports, private reading history, detailed audiobook tracking, and a more structured TBR.

A book tracker should know more than the book title

Goodreads and StoryGraph can both tell you that a book exists in your library.

But KOReader itself knows more about the reading session.

It knows the document.

It knows your position.

It stores the highlights you made.

It stores your notes.

For a KOReader user, the obvious opportunity is to connect some of that information instead of manually recreating it somewhere else.

That is where MyBibliotheca takes a different approach.

Sync your KOReader position

MyBibliotheca can be configured as a KOReader custom progress-sync server.

KOReader sends document progress and metadata.

MyBibliotheca then connects that document with a book in your library.

If the match is obvious, it can be straightforward.

If you have several editions or ambiguous metadata, you can confirm the correct title yourself.

Once connected, future KOReader positions can become part of the book's private reading history.

No repeated percentage entry required.

Send highlights and notes directly from KOReader

MyBibliotheca also provides a separate KOReader plugin for annotations.

Open the book.

Send its highlights.

View them on the matching MyBibliotheca book page.

The plugin does not require Readwise.

That is important for readers who want a direct workflow rather than adding another subscription or intermediary purely to move KOReader annotations.

But if you already use Readwise, connect that too

Many serious readers already have a large Readwise archive.

MyBibliotheca supports that workflow as well.

Connect Readwise using an access token and import your highlights and notes.

MyBibliotheca can then match those annotations with books already in your library.

Readwise remains the source.

MyBibliotheca gives the annotations the rest of their context.

This makes MyBibliotheca useful whether your annotation workflow is direct or Readwise-centered.

Track the reading session behind the percentage

Even automatic progress is only part of the story.

MyBibliotheca is built around detailed reading records.

You can track reading sessions, pages, percentages, audiobook minutes, dates, notes, and more.

Over time, that creates a Reading Timeline that shows not just which books you finished but what the reading itself looked like.

For data-minded KOReader users, this is often the missing layer.

Audiobooks belong in the same system

KOReader handles ebooks.

Your reading life probably does not stop there.

MyBibliotheca also gives audiobooks first-class tracking with:

• listening minutes
• current position
• percentage
• duration
• sessions

That means your Kobo reading and your audiobook listening can contribute to the same personal reading history without forcing one format into the other's measurements.

A more useful TBR

Readers searching for Goodreads alternatives often mention another recurring problem: the endless Want to Read shelf.

MyBibliotheca gives the TBR more structure.

You can use:

• multiple private lists
• priorities
• moods
• personal reasons for saving books
• manual ordering
• an Up Next queue

This turns "books I once clicked on" into something closer to an actual reading plan.

Private by default

KOReader users often value control over their devices and files.

MyBibliotheca takes a similar approach to the library.

The app is private by default and does not require a social feed to be useful.

Your sessions, annotations, personal notes, and TBR context can remain personal.

If you choose to share a public library or recap later, that is a separate decision.

Import Goodreads or StoryGraph instead of starting over

Switching reading trackers is difficult when the old platform contains years of history.

MyBibliotheca supports Goodreads and StoryGraph imports.

That means your migration can look like this:

1. Import your existing library.
2. Connect KOReader progress sync.
3. Install the KOReader highlights plugin.
4. Connect Readwise if you use it.
5. Continue tracking from where you already are.

The old history becomes the foundation rather than something you have to abandon.

Built for readers who use more than one tool

MyBibliotheca is not trying to replace KOReader.

It makes KOReader more useful as part of a larger reading system.

It is not trying to replace Readwise either.

It can bring Readwise annotations closer to your books.

And it does not require you to erase Goodreads or StoryGraph history.

It imports it.

That is the key difference.

Instead of asking you to put your whole reading life inside one closed tool, MyBibliotheca is designed to connect more of the tools you already use.

A Goodreads or StoryGraph alternative for KOReader users

If your main frustration is simply the look of Goodreads, there are many alternatives.

If your frustration is that your reading tracker feels disconnected from the device where you actually read, the list gets much shorter.

MyBibliotheca gives KOReader users:

• progress sync
• direct highlight and note uploads
• Readwise imports
• detailed reading sessions
• audiobook tracking
• private TBR organization
• edition-aware records
• Goodreads and StoryGraph imports
• portable reading data

That is a reading tracker built around the whole workflow rather than another shelf.

Try MyBibliotheca and connect your KOReader reading life to the rest of your library.

Further reading

• Sync reading progress with KOReader
• Send KOReader highlights and notes
• Import Readwise highlights and notes
• Import Goodreads or StoryGraph

A Better Reading Tracker for Kobo, PocketBook and Kindle Users Who Run KOReader

One of the best things about KOReader is that it is not tied to one e-reader brand.

Readers use it on Kobo, PocketBook, Kindle, reMarkable, Android, and other supported platforms.

That gives you more freedom over the hardware you read on.

Your reading tracker should offer the same kind of freedom.

MyBibliotheca is a private reading tracker that connects directly with KOReader for reading progress and annotations while also tracking print books, audiobooks, TBRs, series, reading sessions, and statistics.

So whether your current device says Kobo, PocketBook, or Kindle on the front, your reading history can live somewhere independent of the manufacturer.

Your reading history should not belong to the device brand

E-reader ecosystems naturally encourage you to keep everything inside one company's services.

That works well until you switch devices.

Maybe you move from Kindle to Kobo.

Maybe you use a PocketBook because you prefer its hardware.

Maybe you have more than one reader.

Maybe you deliberately use KOReader because you do not want the software experience tied to the device manufacturer.

MyBibliotheca follows the same philosophy at the tracking layer.

The device is where you read.

MyBibliotheca is where your broader reading history lives.

Kobo + KOReader + MyBibliotheca

Kobo devices are a popular home for KOReader.

With MyBibliotheca configured as the KOReader progress-sync server, supported KOReader reading positions can be connected to books in your MyBibliotheca library.

You can also use the separate MyBibliotheca KOReader plugin to send highlights and notes.

That means a Kobo session can contribute more than a manually entered percentage.

It can become part of the history around the book.

PocketBook + KOReader + MyBibliotheca

PocketBook is also officially supported by KOReader.

For readers who like PocketBook hardware but want a richer cross-platform reading tracker, MyBibliotheca can provide the library layer above the device.

Progress from KOReader can be connected to the book.

Highlights and notes can be sent with the plugin.

If you later move to another KOReader-compatible device, the MyBibliotheca library does not need to move with the hardware.

It was already independent.

Kindle + KOReader + MyBibliotheca

KOReader also supports compatible Kindle models.

Readers who have installed KOReader on supported Kindle hardware can use the same MyBibliotheca integrations once KOReader itself is running.

That means your reading history does not have to stop at Amazon's ecosystem boundaries.

The books you track in MyBibliotheca can include titles read on Kindle alongside Kobo, PocketBook, print, and audio.

One account for mixed-device readers

This becomes especially valuable if you use multiple devices.

Imagine:

• Kobo Libra at home
• smaller PocketBook while traveling
• Android e-ink tablet for PDFs
• audiobooks on your phone
• paperbacks on weekends

A device-specific reading history fragments quickly.

MyBibliotheca is intended to sit above that fragmentation.

Your reading timeline is about you, not which hardware happened to display the book.

KOReader progress sync reduces manual updates

One of the most practical advantages is simple.

Your KOReader device already knows your current position.

MyBibliotheca can receive that progress through KOReader's sync mechanism.

Once the ebook is matched to a book in your account, future positions can update the reading record without requiring you to manually re-enter every percentage.

For anyone who reads daily, removing even a small repetitive task matters.

KOReader highlights can live beside the book

The MyBibliotheca highlights plugin handles another important part of ebook reading.

You can send KOReader highlights and notes directly into MyBibliotheca.

They then appear with the associated book rather than remaining only on one reader.

This helps preserve the parts of the book you actually cared enough to mark.

Readwise users are covered too

If you already use Readwise, you do not need to abandon it.

MyBibliotheca can import Readwise highlights and notes and link them with books in your library.

This gives mixed-device readers flexibility.

Some annotations may arrive directly from KOReader.

Others may come through Readwise from different sources.

They can still become part of the same personal library.

Track print and audio without pretending they are ebooks

A cross-device reader is often a cross-format reader too.

MyBibliotheca handles print, ebook, and audiobook tracking in the same system.

For audiobooks, you can track listening in minutes, current position, percentage, and duration.

For print and ebooks, you can use pages or percentages.

The measurements can differ while the reading history remains unified.

Keep your TBR independent too

The same principle applies to books you have not started yet.

Instead of a device-store wishlist deciding what you read next, MyBibliotheca gives you private TBR lists, priorities, moods, reasons for saving books, manual ordering, and an Up Next queue.

That means your future reading plan is not tied to whichever retailer sold your current e-reader.

A device-independent reading life

KOReader gives readers more control over how they read.

MyBibliotheca extends that control to how the reading is remembered.

Use the hardware you want.

Use KOReader where it makes sense.

Keep your progress, annotations, print reading, audiobooks, and TBR in a library that is about your reading rather than your device brand.

Start a MyBibliotheca library and connect your KOReader device to build a reading history that can follow you from Kobo to PocketBook to Kindle and beyond.

Further reading

• KOReader project
• MyBibliotheca KOReader progress sync
• MyBibliotheca KOReader highlights plugin