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Give an option to toggle number of books on pause on the widget

The paused books is a phenomenal addition, but as you can see, right now I can't know how many books I have on pause/want to read from widget view.

It could be just 6, 16 or even 100+. To actually know how many is on each list, we have to go to library and see it from there.

It would be great if there was an option to toggle to see how many books we have on pause from widget view itself to make quick decisions like whether to start a new book or resume a paused book, Or to send some to 'did not finish list' as the number of paused book has increased too much.

It would be better if it was a toggle able feature rather than a permanent change.

(Another request, please use a different colour for the flame on the streak, so that it is more eye catching...)

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Turkish Language Support (Localization)

Hi Hardcover Team,
​I love using Hardcover to track my reading journey and explore new books!
​I’m reaching out to request Turkish language support (localization) for the platform. Turkish has a massive and active community of readers, and having the app interface available in Turkish—along with better support for Turkish book metadata—would make the platform much more accessible and enjoyable for users in Türkiye and Turkish speakers worldwide.
​Even if a full translation isn't on your immediate roadmap, opening up community-led translations (via platforms like Crowdin or Transifex) could be a great way to let native speakers help bring Turkish to Hardcover.
​Thank you for your hard work on building such a great platform for book lovers!
​Best regards,
Refik Yasin ŞİMŞEK

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Books in a Compilation appear as editions of the individual books

For example, the Star Wars Trilogy book is a compilation of A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi. If I mark Star Wars Trilogy as read, then those three books would appear as read in their own lists. And vice-versa, if I separately read A New Hope, ESB and RotJ then Star Wars Trilogy would appear as read, too.

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Audiobook Editions (Full Cast/Dramatizations)

Some way to distinguish or filter Audiobooks with Full Cast/Dramatizations. There is also a chance it comes in multi-parts (Dark Age by
Pierce Brown, Dramatizations edition comes in 3 Parts)

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Series star rating and review

Add the possibility to evaluate the series as a pack.

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List Column for Table

I would like to see what lists a book is in on my table and a button to add to others. I'm trying to be more organized with my family's reading, but it's hard to go through hundreds of books to reorganize in lists since I have to click through each one.

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Feedback on Vibes Similar Books

I went to a book I liked, Ministry of Time, and went to Similar Books. The choices are odd?

Ministry of Time is quirky, time travel, bit of mystery.

  • Klara and the Sun is a bit serious, about humanoid friends, not really similar
  • Yesteryear is a fairly dramatic story about a trad wife, not similar
  • Orbital is a kinda poetic love letter to the universe/Earth, not similar
  • James is a re-telling of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, a slave of the family, not similar

Could we... flag recommendations for not being great? or is there any way we can help improve the recommendations?

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Sort quotes by location

Basically what the title says. Add a sort feature for quotes to be ordered by location in book.
Extra points if notes and quotes get their dedicated page each (sometimes I highlight characters/place/power names to better tracking- looking at you sanderson- and I would love the opportunity to separate those highlights from the good phrases)

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Feature showcase page

"I do think there should be a feature showcase page somewhere that lists all the big features, what they do, and where to find them, with a section at the top for new features." Quoting Evil JJ on discord (i fully support and could not have written it better)

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Make it easier to add note when adding book

At the moment, I have to

  • add the book by searching for book name
  • clicking 'Want to Read'
  • search again, and click on the book, because I always forget that it won't then take me to the book page!
  • on the book page, click See reading journal
  • click New Entry
  • click Note
  • write note and save

be great if there was a way to do this more easily; if it was more obvious I'd add more notes as to who recommended books to me (etc) which would be helpful later when choosing/reading books

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Discord home page widget

No idea if this is possible, but I miss the social aspect of the site from viewing the home page - if I could embed the #books channel from Discord as a widget that would be cool.

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Add a shuffle button to Reorder Want to Read

We have a shuffle sort but we cant save that. Having a suffle button inside Reorder Want to Read would be a fun way to change up the sorting.

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See cover in fullscreen on mobile/web

Add the option to see the cover of a book in fullscreen when clicking on it.

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Undo button

I'd love it if there was an undo button after an action.

I accidentally marked my book as finished while trying to update the page I was at and I had to delete the book a re-add to my "currently reading" to bring it back. However by deleting it, it removed all the progress I made in my activity calendar. There is no way to get that back unfortunately (as far as I know)

If there had been an undo button, my problem would have easily be solved!

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Make Date Read Optional

Make date read an optional input or default it to I don’t know/care. Easier for new user to input their library faster and more efficiently

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Include Edition in Reviews

It'd be useful to see which edition of a book someone reviewed, especially for deluxe editions that might have extras.

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"AI-generated book" warning

I'd be interested in a feature that would warn if AI was used (partly or fully) to write a book or illustrate a graphic novel.

Since this could be a sensitive topic, it might be good to only allow librarians/admins to add the warning with a cited source (e.g. when an author or publisher discloses it, or some reputable third party).

It would also be great if we could then filter out those books.

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Add possibility to flag as edition of another book

Same as the duplicate it would help to flag a book as an edition of another book too

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Clearer which edition is being viewed

When on the editions section of a book it would help somenthing visual that make clear which edition I'm currently viewing (if it's in list) since some book have the same exact cover and data but years (and page count) or only language.

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Time-based Reading Insights Support

It would be great to add support for tracking granular time-based reading insights statistics from koreader such as:

  • time spent reading a book (total)
  • time spent reading a book per day
  • % of book read per session
  • most popular time of day (by hour) tracking
  • reading pace (time per page)
  • historical reading time data syncing
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series status/tags

it would be great if we could set tags to series, like marking a series as abandoned and something like that. also have stats for them for finished, abandoned, ongoing, behind and up to date etc

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Add the ability to set an author as afterword

I recently had two books (well, really editions) that had an afterword with a different author, which then I couldn't properly tag. It would be great to have, next to the foreword option, also an afterword option.

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Ability to reply to reviews

I'd love if there was a way to reply to reviews written by others and to have a conversation.

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Include automatic "I don't know" "Past Read" data for entries without date provided.

I would love if entries imported through goodreads, or created otherwise that don't have read dates provided to have one automatically created. It could be be the same as "I don't know" option that creates "?-?" Past Read, or just the same date as date added.
I wanted to move my book tracking to Hardcover, but its very hard to track book rereads, because i don't know how many times i've read a book, because "Past Reads" section is empty for imported books, especially when looking at old books imported vs the new manually added on the Hardcover site that have the "Past Read" section automatically included

additionally you can't just add "I don't know" as a reread when using "add new read" so it would be problematic to do it manually for every book if you have long history.

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Make Book Format selectable (drop-down box)

Currently, when searching for book editions, if the ISBN is already linked to a database edition and that edition is listed as a physical book, e-book editions with the same ISBN cannot be selected or added (and vice versa). It would be great if users could select their reading format for existing ISBNs to increase the accuracy of library/shelf data.

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