Reading goals are awesome. However, if you are a prolific reader, you might notice that the dashboard view doesn't really tells you much. As you can see, telling me that I am 0K behind in my reading goals is not very helpful. I'd love to see a more granular view of my reading goals.
Similar to goodreads functionality. Add stickers and achievements for reading each day, completing various number of books, exploring different genres, etc.
I think a nice feature to add would be a word count. It is super cool to be able to see the number of pages I've read and the number of words I've read would be a good addition too.
Integration to support easily adding ebooks from Standard Ebooks (their editions are open-source, so have no ISBN numbers).
https://standardebooks.org/
If I am reading a translation, I want my list to show the language and the cover I recognise. I can mark a specific edition as Owned, and it shows up correctly in the Owned list. However, I cannot add that same edition to other lists — they only allow adding the general book entry.
Please add this feature to other lists.
plot a users read history on a monthly calendar view
sometimes the isbn or ids can't find the book and i recently noticed the option to add them manually is missing. without that feature i don't know how else to track reading those books.
Currently there doesn't seem to be a way to do this unless they have an ISBN or something, which is a shame. I'd love to be able to track and share my reading of Royal Road stuff here on Hardcover
Sometimes the date of an edition is not entirely known, OpenLibrary handles this by doing 198x or 18xx, but when hardcover imports dates like these it turns to 0018-01-01
examples:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL571441M/The_first_part_of_King_Henry_the_Fourth
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL31983242M/Durchs_wilde_Kurdistan
Hello, I would like to be able to set a custom date for when I finished reading a book
Something like Finished reading on ${date}
Additionally, this should be a field in the GraphQL API like finished_date for us to handle sorting and whatnot
Thanks!
The genres, moods, and tags are getting a little chaotic. There are quite a few duplicates floating around (nonfiction, non-fiction etc), sometimes due to typos, and some overlap between categories too (genre: adventure, mood: adventurous, tag: adventure). This makes discovery harder for readers and also muddies up statistics.
A couple of ideas that might help:
LLM assistance. Basically an AI pass to merge duplicates and synonyms into canonical terms or summaries, without needing to share any user data with third-party services.
Curated controlled vocabulary. Swap free-text input for a well-thought-out predefined list, keeping things consistent from the start.
Either way, a bit more structure here would go a long way.
It would be helpful to see whether a duplicate report is already pending (reported by me or another user), or was previously declined. Saves you from flagging something twice or re-flagging something that was already reviewed and rejected.
I would like to have a way to register the dozens of volumes/issues I read/hate without having my book list filled with them. Example: Void Rivals, then within it I would mark the volumes I have. Like a folder.
When viewing the series tracker or a shelf/list/prompt, it would be nice to have a visual toggle to fade read items.
This idea is from Letterboxd and makes it much easier to visually filter out seen items.
HC example - from my all books shelf, I have read 13/40 but it's not by a quick glance to determine which ones those are
Currently you only see read, currently reading and want to read. I have a ton of books I want to add that don't currently fall into those categories, but there is no way to see them that I can find.
A good read is one read twice. I reread at times and I'd like to track that, too. Offer "reread" as a designation. It would be nice to add a counter, too, as I've read some books a dozen times.
You should be able to hide stats for book types you don’t care about or use.
For example, I’m not an audiobook person, so those stats will always be 0 and basically useless
I’d love an option to look at reviews from different filters: newest first, number of stars, etc.
I’d love an option to see book reviews by my friends first or somewhere close to the top of reviews tab. Also I’d love a lot more review filter options similar to letterboxd’s review sorting
When opening a book page, I’d like to immediately be able to see the books type (fiction, non fiction, unknown) and the category (book, novella, short story, graphic novel, etc).
It’s objective information about the book, so it makes sense to place it in the header, where it’s clearly visible and easy to spot. I’ve added an image to illustrate this example (additional text near the date and pages)
Currently multiple clicks need to be made to select the owned tag and the ebook edition stats doesn't work properly probably since the digital edition might have incorrect/missing metadata.
Breakdown of the genre, fiction/non-fiction etc. isn't available. It would be nice to click on the chart and see the list of books for that category.
Similar to TMDB data design for movies: add an "original title" field for books, to track the original name of the work, as book names are typically in English.
Would allow you to group your books by series/compact them so if a series has cough cough TEN books you don’t have them all jumbled up together like an eyesore, just the series as one clean icon (like displayed in the top series of this year). To me they are one book (ex: LOTR), and I read lots of series. It’s so cluttered with them all!