Ability to generate a table or the users most read authors - this was a GR feature - one of the first removed in the big downward spiral of lost features, and still generates lots of angst there. I loved this stat - ie being able to see other users table/list.
In the editions tab of a book page we should be able to filter the edition type (book, ebook, audiobook) in the same way it can be done once the book is in the "want to read" and we can select our edition.
Blocking certain authors so that they wouldn’t come out in recommendations and users will not see any of their works in the search pages (let’s say I’m boycotting their works)
When removing books from a list on Android there's no way to reload the list other than exiting from the app. A swiped down gesture to reload the list would solve the problem.
Right now you can only see how many books you have given each star per month, please show the average number! Also allow half star ratings.
It's a little crazy to make people pay to see all of their genres. I think it would be beneficial for the team to reconsider this, you can see all of your genres for free on Fable and StoryGraph. Paid should be for every niche stats!!
Since I have a Want to Read list of a few hundred books, I often forget what the books I've put on there are. It would be nice to see at least the start of a description without having to go to a new page.
Audiobook details already contain h:mm:ss, progress % for audiobooks should present as time, not pages
I often cannot remember exactly when I have finished a book. Instead of inputting the EXACT day you finished the book, maybe simply give the option to list the general WEEK or MONTH or even YEAR that you read it in.
Add a location setting for want to read to add where you can find the book. I read a lot of books from my local library and it would be great to have that added information
It would be great to be able to see the covers larger and have the ability to zoom in
I imported a description from Google, which includes HTML tags that are filtered out display time.
This made me wonder if any form of rich text is supported in the description field.
If not, it would be a nice feature to have. If it is, it would be nice to have an info bubble to explain the supported tags (HTML, markdown).
and a preview of the description field to see how it will be displayed.
When I Rebuild the external mapping to goodreads, I see a JSON response
that includes only the most basic information like ISB numbers:
{
"identifiers": {
"goodreads": [
"211052256"
],
"isbn_10": [
"9400411723"
],
"isbn_13": [
"9789400411722"
],
"kindle_asin": [
"B0CZP9H9GJ"
]
}
}
However, the HTML page for the book includes a lot more information, like
the title, author, summary and cover image. The information is embedded in the <script id="__NEXT_DATA__" type="application/json">
tag in the page's HTML.
I don't know how stable the shape of this JSON is, I realize you can't do cross origin requests and that routing through your servers would get you severely rate limited or IP blocked by goodreads.
But if librarians could paste the HTML of the page into a form, and the information would be extracted from it, that would significantly reduce the workload.
An alternative would be a browser extension or tampermonkey script that would do this work client side?
Happy to help!
On some pages, the cover image, book title and information are not exactly what I marked. The original book is an American book, but the version I have read is the Brazilian version. It should show the Brazilian cover with the title in Brazilian Portuguese.
This happens on the following pages:
Show some type of small icon to indicate a book is owned on the cover.
Series currently can only be set as complete, I think there should also be a checkbox for when a series gets canceled and one for when it's on hiatus.
Letting users remove a series from their series tracker list. There are series for books I've dropped that don't need to be in my list anymore, ya know.
I think this similar to a previous "bulk edit" request, but I'll like to be able to add the same tags when editing a series. Editing/adding volumes and having to retype the same tags get annoyingly tiring when its 11 tags on a 10+ series.
LibraryThing has an export function (tsv and json), and it would be nice if it could be imported to Hardcover.
Loving the app already. It's like Anilist, but for books. So much more visually pleasing and nicer to use than Goodreads or even Storygraph.
So, why not take a page out of Anilist's book and add the option for a 100-point rating scale? Anilist lets users choose between multiple rating scales depending on how they like to rate things, including 3-point bad/ok/good, 5 star, 10 point, 10 point with decimal, and 100 point. This flexibility of rating is one of my favorite features of the site, and the primary reason I abandoned MAL for anime tracking. Similarly, being limited to only 1-5 stars without even the option for half stars is the primary reason I abandoned Goodreads for book tracking.
Some people will say that a full 100 points is overkill. That is probably true, but personally, I find 10 data points (0.5-5.0 stars) to be too constricting, and would really like at least 20 data points, so that on a 10-point scale, I could distinguish between a 7.0, a 7.5, and an 8.0. And if you are going to the trouble of implementing that, you might as well go all the way and let users pick arbitrary decimal points, turning it into a 100-point scale.
If implementing alternative rating scales is not currently in the cards, it would be very nice to at least have quarter stars, which would allow for my desired 20 distinct data points to rate by. StoryGraph already has this feature, which is the only reason I considered using StoryGraph instead of Hardcover.
I find it annoying that when I click into a profile and click around for a bit, when I try to use the back button to go back to the search page, it brings me back to the last thing within the profile I clicked on. I end up having to click the back button over and over again or just clicking out completely which looses my place in my search.
Was really eager to try out this website but am disappointed to see an unchangeable AI generated banner image on my profile. As a professional animation artist, this has immediately deterred me from wanting to use the site any further. Would highly ecourage you all to use unsplash or a similar site
The site has translations into English, German, Spanish and other languages. It would be great to have the entire site in Brazilian Portuguese. Here in Brazil people use the social network Skoob a lot (a network inferior to Hardcover). Having the entire site in Brazilian Portuguese would help a lot more people here to use it.
It would be very useful to mark, among the books already registered on the platform, which ones I own, and organize them in a virtual shelf that simulates my physical shelf, with the ability to define the position and level of each book. Additionally, it would be great if, when searching by title, author, category, or tags, the books on my shelf were highlighted, which would greatly help in cataloging and finding my books more efficiently.
Books can be uniquely assigned with the ISBN, so it would be great if this field could also be saved and displayed on the book.
Sync my current reading progress list with an ABS server.