Setting your reading preferences
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Your genres, tropes, language and the content you avoid shape recommendations, your feed and your early copy matches. Set them in the onboarding wizard (every step skippable) and change them any time under Settings › Profile.
The short answer
What your preferences do
Three things read your taste: Discover and the For You tab of your feed (recommendations), the reasons shown on every free early copy under Why this fits you (computed openly from your genres, tropes and language against the campaign's targeting), and the content warnings that mark books carrying something you asked to avoid. Nothing else. Your preferences are never shown on your profile.
The onboarding wizard
A new reader account starts with five steps, every one of them skippable with Skip for now:
- How should we introduce you? Name and photo.
- What do you love to read? Three or more genres give the sharpest recommendations.
- Which tropes pull you in? As many as you like.
- Anything you'd rather avoid? Kept out of recommendations, flagged elsewhere.
- A running start for your feed. A few authors to follow and books to shelve, all optional.
Finish ends the wizard; skipping a step keeps nothing from it. Nothing is locked in.
Changing your answers
- Genres and tropes: run the wizard again from /onboarding (Discover offers Choose your genres until you have picked some). What you choose replaces what was there.
- Language is under Settings › Profile; free early copies and recommendations use it.
- Content you'd rather avoid is under Settings › Profile too: tick the topics you want kept out of recommendations, and add anything else in your own words under Anything else. Books carrying these are kept out of recommendations, and when one turns up elsewhere its content notes open with the match marked. Nothing is hidden from search or from an author's page: you can always go and find a book on purpose.
Where this lives
Related
- Getting started as a reader: The first hour with a reader account: the five-step onboarding, where Home, Discover, Circles, Early copies and Library are, the search in the middle of the bar, what to do first, and where your settings and Help live.
- Content warnings and content levels: Authors describe a book's content warnings in their own words and set a content level; both show on the book page, and an Explicit book opens only for signed-in readers who have said they are 18 or older. A topic you asked to avoid keeps matching books out of the books Discover recommends for your taste, and is marked on the book's page wherever else you meet it; nothing is hidden from search.
- Finding books: Search from the header, browse Books and Authors with filters, let Discover recommend, reach the wider catalog for books not published here, or import a Goodreads or StoryGraph export.
- Requesting an early copy: When an author runs an active campaign, the book page shows Request this copy and the **Early copies** page lists it under **Free early copies** with the reasons it fits you; a request carries a short note, waits for the author's decision, and can be cancelled while pending. There is no waitlist.
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