Description of your request or bug report:
Rating stuff is hard, and everybody treats ratings differently. If you see someone rating a book as a 3, what does that mean? Do they use the full range of ratings, and 3 is still something they enjoyed? Is it their “this was okay”? Or is this their minimal rating, because they just use 3-5 on everything?
I really like the official Goodreads rating system for that. It uses the full range available, it gives the scores meaning, and I think I barely ever have to ponder how many stars to give the book:
- 1 star - didn’t like it
- 2 stars – it was OK
- 3 stars – liked it
- 4 stars – really liked it
- 5 stars – it was amazing
EDIT: Updated suggestion for labels
They display it as a tooltip when hovering over the stars. (In some views, at least; sadly, they are a bit inconsistent.)
Alternatively (and maybe additionally?), I think it would be be great to give half-stars. Sometimes you have a book which feels like it’s better than e.g. your usually “3”, but still not quite a “4”, so I’d like to give it a 3.5 instead of feeling like i’m under- or overrating the book.
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