We already have plans for a tab to show adaptations. An additional tab for alternative releases would be extremely helpful. This would include audiobooks released in multiple parts, as well as translations that are split into multiple books or combine several of the original releases. With this approach, we can keep the main tab focused solely on primary works.

Currently can't sort by author, would be nice if that was possible (ACS or DESCS)

I often hear something about a book from someone and want to add it to my "Want to Read" list along with a brief note about who recommended it and why they recommended it. Right now there's no good way to do that. I can create individual lists for "Recommended by Alice," "Recommended by Bob," etc, but there's still no place for me to put any notes about why Alice recommended that particular book. Alternatively, I can click into the book and write a journal entry about it, but that feels awkward (several clicks and it feels like I'm misusing the journal feature because I of course haven't started reading the book yet). Would you be open to adding a field to capture this sort of information? Something like "Recommender notes" or "Why I want to read this" or "Reason for interest" or "How I found this"? Or really just any text field that is accessible from the dropdown when adding a book to my "Want to Read" list.

Currently the books with same average rating are sorted seemingly randomly when sorting by the Book Avg Rating.

Surely more beneficial way to the user would be to have books with the same rating sorted there by the number of rating or popularity.

This way a 5 star book with hundred ratings would always be higher than 5 star book with just one rating reflecting how much "support" the rating has from the community.

Currently, the "reading pace" section on the stats page calculates my stats as they would be at the end of the year/month if I stopped reading now and read nothing else. Instead, it should use the "day of year" (and "day of month" when appropriate) to give me my current pacing.

For example, we're 21 days into January, I've read 8 books (which is finishing one every 3-ish days). But it says "You read a book every 45.66 Days". So as-is now, the stats aren't actually correct until Dec 31.

This feature used in the search would be useful when adding editions as well.

Problem: Books have different covers, such as comic book variants, special editions, etc. Many duplicate editions are being made with incomplete/duplicate information causing multiple copies of books to be found.

Want: A way to upload variant art covers and track them without creating a new edition or book.

Use: Comic book variant covers, complete variant collections, tracking international/special edition/etc. exclusive cover designs

Potential Solution: A new tab in the book page (possibly between 'Editions' and 'Lists') dedicated to cover art with the option to check off which covers you own.

Potential Expansions: Sprayed edges, signed copies, graded copies, option to register variants as single copy or multiple (some people may want to count variants as individual copies in total books owned, others may want to count the main copy only in total books owned)

Possible Issues: Unsure

Implement an Author Badge for members whose books are listed. This feature should allow authors to claim ownership of their profile, verify their identity, and display an official author badge, similar to Goodreads’ author badge system.

Alternative / Fallback Approach:
If author verification is not feasible, allow members to edit metadata for their newly added books, including title, description, genre, category, and mood. This will help address the issue of new book entries being created without sufficient or accurate information.

All member-submitted edits should be reviewed by a verified librarian, whose role is to double-check that the provided data is complete and correct before it is published.

The existing New Release section is too basic and lacks essential filtering options. It should support filters by year, genre, and mood to improve discoverability and user experience.

Please use the following example as a reference for the expected filtering functionality:
https://comick.dev/#view=%22new%22

Hello! I would like to become a supporter to show my appreciation for the work that has been done and to ensure that Hardcover continues to improve and thrive going forward. I understand that the most common model for online services these days is a recurring subscription. However, I find I am more likely to support a project (an open source project) when it has the option for a one-time/lifetime support option instead of a recurring subscription. For instance, I have purchased the lifetime licenses for Immich and Pangolin as I value those services. Thank you for your work!

As it currently stands, page progress doesn't count until you finish a book (unless I'm wrong). This can be discouraging for reading long books. If a user makes a progress update from X page to Y page, that activity should log an X amount of pages read for that date even if they never finish the book. As it currently stands, it seems you have to finish a book and then the dates you started and ended the book evenly distribute pages read on the github-style activity chart in stats. And then the line chart of reading activity effectively only shows things like "250 pages read" on a date that I finished a book. For 2026, I'm looking to set a page count goal because I know I'll be reading a few long books this year, but tracking that goal will be really hard if it only updates 3 or 4 times a year. I've read 145 pages this year, but my goal says I'm behind because hardcover seemingly can't log page progress. I'll also add that one of things I really liked about Fable(?) was the reading streaks; seems like making better use of reading activity in general could lead to more stickiness for the platform. Hardcover is my reading tracker, and I'll continue to support but this one would be a huge addition!

When searching through a genre and I sort by average rating to find the best ones in that genre it comes up with books that only have one or two 5 star ratings so I think it would be amazing to add a feature where you can set it to have a minimum number of ratings such as 50 or 100 so that you aren’t getting overwhelmed by books with one rating.

Want to be able to show which chapter I made it to or am on for a book instead of percent or page because I am not that granular of a tracker

I want import function to have a list option so I don't have to add one at a time

Ability to set default book edition in user profile based on user reading preferences.

Types:
Hardcover
Paper back
Audio book
E - Reader / Digital file

I search by titles and often forget to set the edition so this would help streamline that workflow and keep my stats cleaner.

I noticed that many books in 'Brazilian Portuguese' are just flaged as 'Portuguese' in the website because isn't common to mention our language like that

I think it could be neat to read a chapter or two, and when I update my reading progress, I can have the option to write in my thoughts on what I just read for both myself to see and people who follow me. Kinda like a “status update” for what I just read. Maybe make this an available feature with an on/off toggle so you can use it if you want to, or an available entry box you can either fill in or leave blank when updating your reading progress.

Either as mappings or as identifier (or both) :-)

Books published before 1970 will not have an ISBN. It would be ideal for there to be a Library of Congress control number (LCCN) field for those books where the LCCN is published in the front matter.

When importing a CSV of books it would be nice to be able to click the flag button and manually match the book.

I would like to expand who I'm following based on similar tastes. If there can be an option to see other readers with lots of shared reads and/or genres, that'd be awesome. I sometimes rely on my Activity Feed for inspired TBR's.

Adam R is currently planning work on this feature and it is one of the things we are looking to ship this year. More details to come!

Just wanted to share that this is one of the things that Adam is actively working on at the moment! More details to come.

Have books display their rating in their top most tag/genre
for example #17 Thriller
I am not sure by what metric tags should be sorted, trending? reads? interactions?

Also maybe don't show if it's tag with the highest position is too low, say over 100

Really love Hardcover but do some book search and track progress sometimes right from my kindle scribe. So it will be great to get changes, even from my goodreads profile page to hardcover.