Let us choose the privacy default value instead of it always being "Public". Also, maybe setting privacy at a list or status level would be better than at an action or book level?

Adding progress manually in the reading journal of a book that was read in the past, correctly updates the calendar view with the dates read. However, the page count always goes from 0 to the last page read with every new entry. E.g. if I read from page 200 to 250 on a day, the "Update Progress" or the auto-update through API will count that as "50 pages read on this date", while doing a manual Reading journal entry will show 0->250 "250 page read on this date".

I may have missed this if it already exists, but I think it would be useful if different editions of the same book could have their own descriptions.

Some editions have meaningful differences: revised text, added forewords, new translations, bonus content, annotations, abridgements, collector’s material, or other edition-specific context. Allowing each edition to have its own description would make book pages feel more complete and would help capture what makes a particular edition unique.

A good fallback behavior could be:

If an edition does not have its own description, use the description from the main book entry.

This would avoid empty edition pages while still allowing more detailed and accurate information where needed.

Overall, I think this would improve discoverability and make Hardcover’s book data richer without forcing every edition to duplicate the same description.

I find it hard to explain clearly, but I often marked certain books as 'read-alternative-edition' on Goodreads and displayed them as read. For example, I completed reading the entire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, but I marked 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' as an alternative edition. This allowed me to easily see in lists that I had read different editions. Currently, the book is added to a list, but it would be helpful if this was visually indicated.

I'm using the recent filter feature. I want a view of just those I've not read and currently Did Not Finish is included in this list.

If I've set a book to DNF, I've either started it and then dropped it (permanently) or I'm just not interested and won't ever read it.

The intent is, stop showing up in my TBR results.

It would probably need to be excluded from other features based on a status of Read, like goals.

Curerntly displayed as "Spanish; Castilian". The more common and globally used term is only "Spanish" (ref. https://www.rae.es/dpd/espa%C3%B1ol)

The Trending Books feed often contains multiple books from the same series, which can take up a large portion of the list and reduce variety.

Instead, treat a series as a single entry by default. If several books from the same series are trending, show just one representative entry (for example, the highest-ranked or first book in the series), with an indication that the series contains other trending books.

This would:

• Increase the diversity of books shown in the Trending feed.
• Make it easier to discover new authors and series.
• Prevent popular long-running series from dominating the list.

Users could optionally expand a series to see the individual books if they're interested.

We should be able to change date format from the default (MM/DD/YYYY) to other languages, or at least to ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD)

I use dashboard widgets to keep track of challenges (by genre) for book clubs I'm in.

In the header I'd love to see how many books are in the displayed list rather than have to 'view all' to see the count.

If I am in the search by isbn function and I have a status of Librarian, editions with a status of Pending should be included in the results.

I can't tell you how many times I've not found the isbn and begun a manual entry, only to get an error message saying the isbn # is already in use on an edition. And this edition has a status of 'don't include in searches.'

I want to make a second account to track professional literature so the personal and professional don't mix. It would be great to be logged in into both at the same time and switching between them with as little friction as possible.

This is an alternative solution to the problem I described here – https://roadmap.hardcover.app/feature-requests/posts/subprofiles-personal-vs-professional

I want to be able to track professional/technical literature without it cluttering my personal profile. It would be great to be able to create an alter-ego under the same account – with completely separate libraries, reading history, etc, and to be able to easily switch between the two. Like a profile in a web-browser.

Alternatively, adding a way to switch between accounts with a single click would serve the same purpose, but in a different way. I will make a separate request for it, but this one is definitely preferable.

As a librarian,
I want to assign specific roles to contributors,
So that I can accurately reflect their actual work, especially for comic books.

Missing roles to add:

Colorist

Inker

Letterer

Penciller

I like being a supporter, but still, would love having more choices as a subscriber, like for example a choice for not automatically renewing subscription when current runs out.

I have over 100 lists, and right now I can only click "Next" when I want to browse them. It would be great to have pagination at the bottom so I can at least skip forward by 7 pages if I know I'm looking for a list of mine that probably begins with P, for example.

way to automatically track progress and notes sync to hardcover from moon reader pro app

It seems like if I mark a book as "Did Not Finish", there's no way to put the dates in there. If I put in dates and then save, it changes the status to "Read". If I change the status back to "Did Not Finish" then it clears out the read dates.

The ability to activate a list that would automatically be populated by all the books the reader has marked as owned.

It would be nice to be able to us italics and bold etc in the notes. I would also love if there was a place to search through and see all my notes without having to go to the journal of every book.

I noticed a "mistake" in somebody's list and had genuinely no way to reach out to them. Also I think it would enhance the feeling of community and give more reason to interact with people

Honestly, and I don't mean to be disrespectful, but when I'm talking about the app, people get confused because the name is kind of generic. Like backloggd and letterboxd, which have easy to search names, i think hard hardcover should be "hardcoverd" or something, and it would immediately tie the app to other apps people already use and love. I think we're all gravitating towards hardcover because good reads has an outdated ugly design. I think a new name similar to letterboxd would immediately give users a feel of what this app is all about.

If your friend DNF'd a book, the only way you can tell is if you find the review in the popular reviews. It should still tell you if they DNF'd as that's just as important of a signal as if they gave it 5 stars

Adding a link to "mastodon.something" seems to register as a link to mastodon, but mastodon instances (servers or communities, if you wish) are much more diverse than that!

I'm on one which URL is indieweb.social for instance. Which means if you filter your "Who to follow" list by "Linked Mastodon Profile", I will not appear in it although it's a legit mastodon profile.

Ideally adding a link to a mastodon profile should work similarly to https://joinmastodon.org/servers but I get it may be complicated to implement.
Why not let us mark that link as a mastodon community, then?

As in:

1. Add link
2. Input link
3. [NEW] Checkbox "This is a Mastodon profile"
4. Save

I read to my child every night before bedtime. I’d like to keep track of books that we have already read and books that we plan to read. I have thoughts on these books as a parent and would like to rate and review.

But I don’t want any of this spilling into my personal reading. I could probably use lists to track read and TBR, but I don’t think that would help with ratings, recommendations, etc. and would impact my overall reading stats.

I’m not sure if the solution would be a type of subaccount or maybe just some kind of tagging that is filtered out of personal reading.