I would really like if there was a way to filter the stats page by only books or only audiobooks rather than have them both together! Thanks!

It would be cool to have a feature to share an image to social media that shows your reading summary as some visual graphic, for example, a weekly, monthly, or yearly summary, akin to how Spotify Wrapped or Apple Music Replay works. With multiple options of different types of stats where you can choose a timeframe for them. This would be a fantastic way to advertise the platform as well.

I'd love to be able to see what books I own in the series list somehow.

I like the generate recommendations feature but I wish you could use it to specify a list. I have a list just for books I own, another for books I want to read one day and a couple of genre lists. It would be be great if I could have recommendations work off the list of books I already own or for my reread list.

A killer feature would be a combination of tying into the "share to" functionality on mobile + browser plugins that replicate this.

The Story: You're browsing the University of Chicago Press, Yale Press, Scholastic, Amazon, whatever, and see a book you'd like to add in Hardcover. Right now, you scan the page for an ISBn, copy it, open Hardcover's website or app, paste in the search, etc.

It would be really great to be able to tie this into mobile's share-to feature as well as PCs with browser plugins.

I believe on Android this is called an "intent."

So the user would, say, have their email app open, be reading an email from a press advertising their latest books, and you click through to a book to read more.

Wow, it looks great! I'd like to read that when I have time. They tap "share" in their mobile browser, which brings up the app list, and you tap Hardcover from the list.

The Hardcover app loads up with that book loaded the same way it does if you search for the book specifically in Hardcover.

You tap "want to read" and hit the back button and you're back to your email.

The hardest part is probably the logic for extracting what to search for (search for ISBn probably easy since it's a mathematically defined format, 13 digits where the 13th is a checksum), extracting author and title might be slightly harder and rely on website quirks.

By adding an area where you can have a bookshelf and decorate with the books you read, and an area where you have dnfed it .
Another thing is when sorting out my books there should be an option with "authors names a-z" like that

There are accounts that have zero history or activity that are holding onto @usernames. It'd be cool if there was some way to claim these usernames depending on criteria.

I think it would be useful to have an ability to filter entries that are displayed in the reading journal page. Specifically, to not show progress updates, but only notes and quotes. Because when I come back to the reading journal for a finished book, I am not that interested in the detailed progress updates, but very interested in things I chose to save.

I'd like to see support for rich text in journal entries just like I can for reviews

Currently any user can view any other user's full stats page. Can we have granular control here to show full (or partial if that's a future option) stats to a) everyone/public b) logged in users c) mutual followers d) private/no one

Full reading history and patterns being accessible like this is more data for a person's digital footprint and we should have the option of locking it down.

Hey I would to have a quote widget I could put in my home screen or even in my lock screen. That could be awesome! Thank you for all the amazing work

For devices like TVs or some eReaders, it can be tough to login with a browser or paste in a PAT. The solution to copy what Netflix, etc do: allow the user to sign in on another device and put in a 4-digit code to auth their Hardcover account.

I’d love to have the text be auto selected (highlighted?) when updating progress. It’s a bit of an annoyance having to select it to update it. At least on mobile (iOS)

Give the option for count pages of not finished books on stats widgets and challenges progress

When adding a book: This could be by publisher, country/language, or format.

When I go to an Author page: I just want to see what titles exist (being able to toggle into a title for various languages & formats would help in presenting a cleaner list overall).

Something that helps smooth out how this works across different scenarios.

I'm finding myself getting lost between remembering where to define what format the book was and which dates i was reading it.

It took me many tries to understand just how to add a book as read with unknown dates.

It would be great to be able to see what individual books are linked as part of a compilation without having to go into the edit page

I really don’t know how doable it is, but it’s my dream to have a feature that could automatically detect book titles from a video (mostly from instagram or TikTok) and open the corresponding page into Hardocover.

When I want to send a link to a friend it copies this text also which is just unnecessary, it should just copy the link and not a mini ad for the site everytime, big fan of the site so far, just my one major gripe

Percentage as first class progress indicator

There are editions where pages are not yet known. Obviously you could hack this by falling back to 1000 pages (what I've done locally for a koinsight server for backwards compatibility).

For any given quantity of unstructured text I can tell you what percentage I am through the text even without known the pagination of the text. It would be great if this were supportable!

The UI doesn't gracefully degrade right now.

Decouple the reading progress from the edition. Then add a format [physical, ebook, audiobook] to the API and manual progress update to better track what medium. This would be nice for people whose switch between book formats.

Please add Worldcat as an external link option

In the app version, when updating progress you tap the input field, you first have to clear whatever is filled in. It would be way nicer and faster if the input field is cleared, so you can immediately type the new value, as there is no use case when you don't want it cleared.