Allow for the addition/creation of individual work that is part of a single book (ie The Collected Works of so-and-so) and allow tracking of the progress on those individual works. This would be a finer grained accuracy of reading. Ideally the collected works would roll-up to show progress over the entire omnibus.
This should be an option in list to change all its contents in bulk
Users still can see what I added to my "Want to read" list even though I've marked book as private and list to whom I assigned it too. I'm not proud of some books on my WtR list and I'd like to hide them without making my whole account private.
Book on pic related still shows my profile when I log out
I'd like for hardcover to support id routing for all important data routes. (books, series, editions)
Discord discussion: https://discord.com/channels/835558721115389962/970354107397329007/1496148992726269982
TLDR: There's a need for a fixed, unchangeable url
I don't mind about the app itself, but the book title and description, even after you select an edition in your language (Spanish in my case), you still see them in English. They should at least be translated according to the language of the edition you have selected. Ideally, you should be able to select a "Default language" in your profile so you don't need to always go and change the edition.
Allow people to set if they want month first or day first. Adding my dates read is breaking my brain and I keep adding things to the wrong month
This one I'm not sure how to explain.
There's quite a lot of issues that are, I think, derived from automatic imports. I read a lot of unknown indie romances, so I come across these issues A LOT.
There a lot of books with only title and author and NO other data. Now, it would be great if there was a way to add the isbn or external id and it would actually GET the data from those the same way it does when you create a book from scratch with ISBN. Right now, it does nothing but make the information available in the book's page as far as I'm aware.
So either: update data when adding isbn/external id
Or: let me delete the book and add it with isbn with all the info at once. but that one is dangerous and would probably have very restricted access for obvious reasons.
(sidenote: getting rid of random summaries and annotations of books being on here, like, as if they were books, not in reviews, would be huge as well. My books keep importing as summaries of themselves instead of the actual book, and they keep showing up in searches. They don't really belong on a platform like this, they're not books. I'm guessing they came from a batch import of another database, but they really need a cleanup)
Related to this: i don't know if this "only title and author" book thing is something the automatic import did before it was improved but if it was that, and if it still does it, that needs an emergency fix imo. I doubt it does though.
Descriptions: adding the descriptions to the books when importing. I'm a bad example because I read hundreds of unknown indie books a year, but most of the books I've added, the ones that I didn't manually create, don't have a description (or a cover). It would be FANTASTIC if that could be incorporated. Particularly if it was doable by simply adding the isbn or external id, because I'm guessing a lot of manually added books are probably missing it as well.
Released status: books seem to be set to unreleased by default. I think the opposite would make A LOT more sense.
Language, country, etc: if this data could also be automatically added when importing the book through isbn/external id that would be a big relief. I'm pretty sure that field is empty on a big percentage of the database (oh how I hope there's a way to batch edit that some day, even if just for devs), but it's important data and might help with messy editions. Searching, browsing or filtering by country or language is something I'd absolutely love, but I wouldn't even requesting right now because too much data is missing
Some more community features would be interesting, like being able to reply to reviews/start a discussion or make a simple post
When you go to a book page and click "Lists", it's near impossible to find anything interesting there because most of the lists are "Owned" lists. I think "Owned" list should be excluded from lists on book pages site wide.
When visiting a link to a Hardcover entry on mobile it by default opens the webpage, but there is no option to open it in the app. See: https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/create-deeplinks
Example: Firefox for Android has a menu option called "Open in app". Tapping it opens the corresponding page in the associated app. If I tap a youtube video link, it asks me if I want to open it in the browser or redirect it to the app. I haven't used Chrome in a while, but I think they open a dialog box asking the same question.
whenever I type in a name for a book, if there's a typo, or I back out of a search, it shows blank results and maybe I cannot exactly explain it, this does feel very glitchy.
Series tracker is one the best features of this site. But is quite hidden compare to the other features. It would be good if you can add the series tracker feature to a Dashboard on the main page.
When adding a new book (new book page) or edition (on an existing book page) on mobile devices, could we also have the code bar reader that is already implemented in the search bar available in the value field of the card?
Links to each version for links to purchase options such as Amazon or other sites per edition and Libby for borrowing
I'm really enjoying using hardcover.app, but I've had occasions where I've had poor data and the app refuses to open. It would be amazing if the app was native but would still be great if it was a true PWA with offline support to just be able to do simple things like update progress and status of books already in my lists.
I love the ability to follow a series and how you can see it under network-series in your profile. But is there anyway to show how many books from the series you have read in that first list view. Obviously i can click on it and get the individual book statuses but if there was an indicator on that list view of followed series i could avoid clicking in the series i have followed but finished and open the ones i need to finish. Basically like the progress data for 'Lists' ie 2/4 and highlighted green 4/4 when completed.
Have a total count of books at the top of every personal list and Read/WTR/DNF/CR lists.
Have hardcover host (or make) a forum that people can discuss, recommend and find books, or to just have a place to talk with people of similar interests.
In the future it can also facilitate things like Q/A's with authors or polls
This can be an extension of Book discussions, where book discussions is creating threads off of a book or author, the forum structure allows for more then just that, by having book threads be under a book category it allows users to create threads unrelated to one specific book, either in the book category or in a separate category. Other features like prompts can also become a type of thread under a prompts category.
The forum structure allows for people to communicate with anyone, either by creating or joining a thread. Sub forums are also an option, say a reading group, where they are separated from the public global forum and can have their own admins.
Just a simple habit tracker for reading to track
It would be nice to have a new type of journal entry that allows you to build a glossary of terms, character profiles for a book or series. Possible enhancements could be the ability to export a StarDict for terms.
This will hopefully show the due date, the reading or listening pace required to catch up as the minor details and then the days left as the focus. The default sort could be earliest expiry first.
We can currently use lists to track requested, accepted and in progress ARC books but a proper countdown widget for ARCs and library borrowings would be a really good addition.
Add a widget for "want to read", like other custom lists.
It would be great if series could be annotated with Genres, Moods, Tags, and Content Warnings just like for books. Maybe the individual books could inherit these from the series so that the same items don't have to be added to each individual book in a series.
Currently, the author name in a card or table view is plain text but could link to the author's page instead.
The current selection of pronouns covers a wide-range of users but not all. Increasingly people do not mind specific pronouns and would like that to be listed in a manner such as "Any Pronouns" rather than "Not Specified" or "Other".