Question 1

Is Forbidden Folio private?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Your folio is a personal reading space, not a public activity feed. You decide what to log, how to tag it, and whether anything is ever shared.

Question 2

How is this different from Goodreads?

Accepted Answer

Goodreads is useful for basic shelves, reviews, and reading challenges. Forbidden Folio separates overall rating, heat level, spice flavor, tropes, and content notes — so a five-flame book isn't automatically treated as a five-star book.

Question 3

How is this different from Romance.io?

Accepted Answer

Romance.io is excellent for discovering romance through community steam ratings and trope filters. Forbidden Folio is built for your private reading history: the notes, boundaries, reactions, reread moods, and personal taste profile that follow the book home.

Question 4

What does "spice type" mean?

Accepted Answer

Spice type describes the flavor and dynamics of a book's intimacy — like slow-burn payoff, power exchange, praise kink, primal play, taboo, or monster romance. It's separate from heat level, which measures explicitness and frequency.

Question 5

Are content notes the same as trigger warnings?

Accepted Answer

Content notes record potentially relevant material in neutral language, for reader context and personal memory — not moral judgment or a replacement for an author's official content warnings.