I just wanted to voice support for perhaps an unpopular view that yes I would prefer fewer statuses.
Just wondering about other solutions for this - use a tag for “on hold” (within the Reading category), and then you can filter to not show those (by clicking the tag twice).
Or rename Stop to Stop/Pause.
Or for those that are worried what other people think when changing statuses, etc you can delete visibility in your feed for selected items. So set some things to Stop, then go to your feed and delete visibility for those entries.
The tag doesn’t remove the item from the home page or being in your face.
Also requires quite a few more clicks to put and remove from on hold than just having an option in the drop down.
We are just moving the problem with this. Then you wouldn’t be able to tell apart what’s dropped from what’s on hold.
I don’t think many people are worried about visibility in the activity feed.
Even if, I still think this is very convoluted IMHO.
I know I’m being nitpicky , or maybe a native sees it differently, but if you go by the cambridge definition, you have to go to the 5th definition of Stopped to get a “Pause” definition.
I agree. When I see someone stopped a book I’m assuming they didn’t like it and don’t plan to continue reading it.
Except we’re only adding one status and it’s probably the cleanest way to appease everyone’s interests here. I don’t see a reason we’d ever need any additional statuses added apart from “on hold”. I completely understand not wanting to overcomplicate the site though.
That sounds a like a slightly cumbersome workaround for a feature that feels like it should be standard to the site. Not that it’s a bad suggestion at all, I just don’t think a majority of people will bother doing that. Honestly, I’m one of those people. I’ll probably just leave it on my currently reading forever until I get back to it.
I think my biggest issues to the workarounds is that I want to keep my “reading” category as clean as possible, and I would like to have a list of my in progress books somewhere.
Rationally I know adding a “in progress” tag to my stopped books would do this, but emotionally I don’t want to say that I’ve stopped…I feel like I’ve failed and/or there’s a finality to putting it into that category that doesn’t feel good.
I would like to add something that I feel should be an important factor here regarding natively and the stopped thing, regardless if “stop” means on hold or not linguistics wise.
in an effort to clean my “reading” a bit so I can plan things a bit better what I read when I moved things that are on hiatus to stopped with the tag “hiatus”.
however I would like to point out that now that they’re in stopped I’m getting gradings for them, which is something that I would rather not do unless I’ve completely stopped reading or finished. my other option is moving them back to reading but that kinda defeats my purpose to try organizing things normally since it would mean I would need a “not hiatus” tag to filter the rest of “reading” (either that or the ability to NOT show a certain tag)…
I just block them when they come up in grading, and then later (if I actually complete then or w/e) unblock them on the gradings section of my profile. It’s a bit cumbersome tho, and I agree it would be great to have some form of “paused, don’t add to grading queue”
Would moving them back to Wishlist instead of Stopped not work here? (Sorry if that came up before; it’s been a long time since I read this topic, and I never pause books.)
well I’ll be damned, is it a new feature?
I remember playing with tags a week ago and I didn’t notice something like this
so either it’s new or I’m extremely oblivious to what I’m doing (which fair, happens to me )
yes and no, wishlist is “I don’t have this book but I’m interested in it”
moving it to wishlist will be as if I don’t have it at all, which I’m kinda scared will confuse me enough to buy something twice accidentally since I read webcomics and sometimes temporarily free content from cmoa as well
It’ll fix the grading issue, but logistically wise the whole thing is frankly confusing
tbh it’s not like “I can’t live without it”, and in reality I had this tag even before I saw there’s the product request here
leaving it in owned and in reading would have probably what would have happened regardless of what I wrote here eventually
but since the product request exists already I felt like it’s a relevant point to make with the whole “what’s the difference between stopping and pausing” debate up here lol
edit:
regardless thank you for your tip, I’ll probably do that instead
(I don’t have a hiatus tag) but TIL that I can change a book status from reading to owned without triggering grading, losing progress, and hitting the activity log with “stopped” (which I don’t like doing to books that I’m enjoying but am not actively reading).
I still want a hiatus status, but most of my problems are now solved.
Edit: you do lose the date started info when you do that. I made a note on the book I tested it with so that I can set it to my start date when I get back to it.
why DOES stopped have grading?
I feel like if there was no grading on stopped we could have just used that for paused stuff and tagged things that were completely stopped as “dropped” instead (+I feel like pausing has a lot more use than dropping but maybe that’s just me?)
I drop more than I pause, and pauses usually turn into “dropped and maybe remembered a year later” for me anyway. I do think it would be great to have Paused/On Hold tho. I’d probably be less likely to unconsciously drop things like that.
But at this point it’s a little moot for me. My interest shifts too frequently. And generally when I pick up stopped books, it’s because it got stuck in my head for some reason, or something reminded me it exists
, or maybe a native sees it differently, but if you go by the 
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