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What could we do to make Hardcover better?
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Streamline Adding Editions

I keep trying to add editions because I listen to a lot of audiobooks and the feature to add the editions hasn't worked for me. It feels unusable due to something that feels like a glitch. The only workaround I've identified, which is very cumbersome, is to use the ISBN to add it like a new title and then to mark it as a duplicate. I wouldn't have cared but the stats say I read like 90 some percent print books, but it's just because it's not really possible to actually mark that most of these books are audiobooks. Anyway, just started using this app today and it's kind of glitchy but it has a lot of potential so I hope it takes off.

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Reading goal based on list

Be able to have a reading goal based on a list, first thought was for Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere would be to "complete Cosmere list by this date" or say "read 75% of hugo award winners" or "hugo nominees 2025"

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CAWPILE rating system
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BookLore/KOReader integration

Just thought of integrating with BookLore and KOReader would be a nice addition - basically all 3 products serve as an alternative to established players - Goodreads, Kindle and Calibre.

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Changes to goals, option of poems/essays instead of books

I'd like to start reading more poems and essays, this will involve dipping into a lot of books and reading a small section (i.e one poem)

Currently on reading goals/tracker this would just look like loads of unfinished books...

Potentially this could be largely manual entry in the goals section as I get that it doesn't really work with the reading tracker as is. But alongside my tracked books I could have a separate goal where I noted down poems and essays I'd read

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Keyword Search Your Reviews

I'd like the ability to keyword search my own reviews. The ability the sort the results the same way you can other lists in your library (by rating, length, etc) would be even better. This would help when trying to find recommendations for friends who are looking for a certain type of book, or if you are trying to remember a particular book and don't remember the title but do remember something you said about it in your review.

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"Previous" button on the final page of "Want to Read" / "Read" Shelf View

At the moment when you reach the final page of shelf view there is no "Previous" button. Unlike previous pages in the "Want to Read" or "Read" section that weren't the first 40 entries. Having a "Previous" button on this final page would be nice for when users want to go back to the previous entries. Especially if they were linked to the page, in which case they can't even go back in their browser unless they know how to edit the URL properly.

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Better filters all over the app (Hide and Show! or something equivalent)

Some requests have captured some of this, but haven't asked for a broad enough reach in my opinion. No matter the view (Read, Want to Read, my list, another person's list, Browse results, etc.), I wish to be able to apply multiple and specific filters (genre, length, release year, rating, etc., with both Show and Hide options for each filter). I want to go to my Want to Read and be able to filter down to Sci-fi books under 400 pages that have come out since 2000. Or quickly find out what Crime books in my Read have ratings over 4.0. Or filter down to all the Fantasy books in a list ("Show"), but filter out those fantasy books that are also Sci-fi books ("Hide"). When looking at Trending Books or Browse by Genre, I want to be able to filter out any books I’ve already Read or that are listed in my Want to Read.

I think this would be so amazing! And would basically give me everything I want from this app.

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Read Next Blog Post

It'd be nice if there was a link at the bottom of the blog post page to read another blog post. Right now the link is to go back to the blog post overview. But I find myself wanting to read multiple in the same session. Since I'm starting from the oldest and want to make my way to the newest this would be quite cumbersome.

However, I'm unsure if this is a common enough use case to warrant adding it. If a feature like this were to be considered I wonder if a "Related Articles" section would be better suited. It would still draw in users to read more blog posts, just as the former idea would, but this is more likely to be something suited to their interests. Not everyone is interested in reading every blog post. But if they were to read a post about one of the monthly reports, or one of the big tech posts, it would stand to reason they would be interested in reading other posts that are similar.

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Blacklist for searching by title

For example I'd like to exclude any title containing "Summary of" as I am not interested in reading summaries, I prefer reading books in whole.

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Endless Scroll

Endless scroll instead of pagination on lists/WTR etc.

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Genre/tag goals

An option to set any genre/tag for goals would be nice. Eg: 5 fantasy books in 2025. Obviously only books with the fantasy genre would count for this goal.

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Stats should show everything I read in a month.

Currently it seems to only show books that ive finished in the month not books i read during but didn't finish that month. When i update progress for a book it should show up in the stats as how ever many pages i updated for said book. Say i update my hours listened for The Way of Kings it should show up in the stats as me having listened to however many hours of The Way of Kings that month regardless of whether i finished it or not.

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Profile - Stats - Card Tooltips

Specifically on the two cards "Books by Rating" and "Books by Page count", it would be cool to see a tool-tip preview of say the top 3 to 5 books. Since the granularity/focus is books, it would be cool to have a little review on the same page, or maybe even a navigation link to Books filtered by that rating.

Edit: changed title from Dashboard to Stats

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Popular books that are not part of a series

Literally. Sometimes I want read scifi or fantasy books that don't start saga or trilogy or whatever.

Would be possible to add a filter here and there (e.g. in the "Trending books" page) like "self-contained", "one shot". You get it.

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Custom/More Advanced Sorting

Custom Sorting Options (Lists, TBR etc): Sort by Author, by Series, by order in series, perhaps multiple if possible (like you can do it Excel/Google Sheets: Sort by ___, then by ___, then by ___. Basically more advanced sorting. :)

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Not able to edit author image

When editing an author and selecting a new image for them, it shows up in the preview fine, but once saved, the image isn't applied and going into the edit screen again yields weird information about the image.

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High-priority lists

I would like to be able to promote some lists to a first-class position in the dropdown menu for books, rather than have them hiding in a secondary menu. I want to be able to QUICKLY add search results to my Owned, To Be Read, or Want To Buy lists.

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Back to Lists button

Adding a button allowing you to go back to the list of Lists on a profile from inside a List would be nice, or at least showing the tabs to conveniently navigate to the rest of the profile like can be done from the Want to Read, Read, Currently Reading lists

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Make stats clickable

Add the ability to click on stats, for exemple when looking on how much fiction or non-fiction books you read, it would be nice to be able to click on for exemple "non-fiction" and get a list of all the non-fiction books that you read

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Reading goals based on language

For those trying to learn a new language, be it English or something else, it would be useful to have the ability to set goals to read X number of books in Y language

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Autofill Country - Language by ISBN

When adding books, especially when they link but don't have complete data, can we add the Country and Language based on the ISBN-13?

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Similar authors

Suggest similar authors based on genre or themes to a given author to help people find books, additional to being able to similar books and or series.

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All Books page

A page where you have all the books in the database but you can filter it by genre, popularity, release year and rating. Like what letterboxd has. I think it would make it easier to discover more books for people to read

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Option to merge editions in owned

Owning multiple editions of a book (ebook, physical, etc.) currently causes a book to be shown multiple times in the owned library view.

It would be nice to have those merged into a single item and then have a section on the book page to show which editions you own of a given book. Or at least a toggle to hide duplicates in your owned.

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