Estaría genial que se pudiese usar la app/web en otros idiomas como el español, francés o alemán, entre otros. Esto abriría las puertas de esta app/web a personas de otros países no anglófonos.

I would love a way to archive a list after I have completed reading through it, for instance, if I make a list of "Planned for February 26" and then after February I could archive it, kind of like how you can archive a goal.

I want to support hardcover, but I don't have a credit card. In my country it isn't a default way to pay things. I would like to pay a subscription through androids playstore.

Provide a direct link to share or download the attached share image from a reader's review in better resolution.

Star rating automatically updates status to finished reading. However I rate do not finish books as well so it's a real pain to manually change the status to do not finish but also going to the reading journey and removing the finished status record.

"Currently we get a various feeds from friends. I personally do not want to see the progress made on books which the friends could update daily. I only like to get major updates like completed a book, started reading, rated a book or reviewed etc.

Also, I like filter option on my homepage where I can filter what kind of activities that I want to see on my feeds."

Add a "back to edition/book/series" link at the end of the edit page. Scrolling back up to the top for the link feels like an unnecessary extra step.

I often want to send someone a book I'm reading by getting a hardcover share link but there seems to be no share button in the app when I search up a book

Small system that can log Value of owned books and showcase my read and tbr values to encourage me to read what ive already purchased

As more community-building features are (I hope) added to Hardcover, it would be nice to support goals beyond reading. For example: Set a goal for how many librarian contributions I want to make this year. Set a goal for how many reviews I want to write. Etc.

I struggled to rate and review the books I have read using the app UI. When I searched for a book the search bar stayed up after i had selected a book making it hard for me to rate and review it. I would love if there was no left to right scrolling and just up and down. Also if evrything was a bit more minimal thats would be great! I love the idea of this app! Im excited to see how it develops.

In addition to the search bar for lists, it'd be great if there were better navigation options. This could look like one or several of:

a toggle to set the desired number of entries per page (10/30/100 etc)

adding a footer with number links to allow skipping to later pages (and showing where you are in your list)

a more text-based table view that minimises image size and shows more books per screen

(But please not infinite scroll which is horrible for searching 🙂)

Reference texts (dictionaries, cookbooks, parts catalogues/specification data books) aren't really things I'd 'read' like a novel or an essay. I might browse a cookbook for ideas, but most of the time I'm looking up a specific technique or recipe. It's not read, it's not unread, it's not 'unfinished'. Perhaps we could have a status for texts primarily consumed in nonlinear ways? Or a way to create our own statuses?

Having message boards tied to genre, not specific books, would help facilitate greater discussion and interaction within the app. In the same way that Reddit or discord allows for free flowing conversations, having open message boards would help community members have more organic conversations and better engagement. Having a board to host topics like “favorite fantasy books” or “most interesting scif stories” or “what classics would you recommend to a beginner” would really help build the community.

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!