If I search for "The Algebraist" there are 10+ entries in Hardcover, all likely the same book. Not different editions, different entries for the same book. I accidentally logged my reading progress, rating, and review on one with hardly any other readers. However, there's another book with 100+ readers. How can I move my data to that entry everyone else is using? I've got a reading library of 500+ books, plus am sure this will happen more in the future. I wish I could look at my data on a book and have a "move to book" option that would let me select a different book to move my data to.

Create store specific pages so that independent bookstores can do partner marketing in tandem with Hardcover. Rising tides raise all boats and all that. Would love to be included in the design sessions if interested! And I am HAPPY to pound the pavement for you all and get magnets or stickers into the hands of indies.

Hardcover's own rating is good, but on a lot of books the sample is small — a 4.3 from 40 readers doesn't tell me much when I'm deciding whether to commit to a 600-page book. So I end up opening Goodreads in another tab to sanity-check almost everything I consider, which is the one thing that keeps pulling me back to a site I'd rather have left behind.

Trakt (the film/TV tracker) solves exactly this. On every title page it shows IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic next to Trakt's own score. It doesn't read as an admission that Trakt's community is small — it reads as the site respecting that I want a full picture before spending ten hours on something. Trakt's own rating stays the headline; the rest sit alongside as context.

What I'd love on a book page:

Goodreads average + ratings count — the count matters as much as the score, because it's what tells me how much to trust it
optionally StoryGraph, and Book Marks (Lit Hub's critic aggregator) for professionally reviewed titles
Hardcover's own rating still first and primary
I appreciate this isn't trivial — Goodreads killed its public API in 2020, so it likely means scraping or a data partner — and that you're a small team. So even a plain link-out with no numbers, or a community-contributed field, would beat the tab-switching I do today.

Penciler, Colorist, Inker, and Letterer

These four roles should be options in the Authors & Contributions section of the edit page.

They are common roles in graphic novel publications and it would allow for better classification of how people contributed, rather than just having them all set to 'other'.

Building off of this post https://roadmap.hardcover.app/feature-requests/posts/reading-streaks

Not sure if this would explicitly go under the stats page or be it's own widget separate from the reading activity widget. Basically I lost my 23 day streak (not a bug - I just didn't read on that 24th day) and got curious to see my longest streak ever. I was able to refer to my Kindle app but I think it'd be nice if there was a way that Reading Streaks could tell you your longest streak so you can try to beat it. I know some people aren't fond of this so maybe it's preferable to keep it as a widget instead of the stats.

Secondary improvements to this:
-Weekly Reading Streaks (as in, if you read at least once that week). Kindle does this too.

-Customizing what counts towards the streak. This is the hard part about trusting my Kindle app. I have no idea how it counts that I read if maybe I'm just clicking around searching for something and not actually reading. But for some people they only want it to count if they read x minutes or x pages a day.

I want to see how many books are on my TBR when I'm looking at my "Want to Read" page. Can you put the count somewhere near the top of the page? Same for Read/Paused/DNF but especially for Want to Read.

I would like to request an optional paid API tier that provides higher request limits for integrations and self-hosted library-management applications.
I am using Hardcover as the metadata source for Bookshelf. When adding or syncing a large number of authors and books, the process takes a very long time because Bookshelf must retrieve the relevant author, edition, book, and metadata records from the Hardcover API.
I do not know the exact request limit I am currently reaching, but large library operations appear to be heavily throttled. This is especially noticeable during:
Initial library imports
Adding many authors at once
Rebuilding or migrating a Bookshelf instance
Matching an existing ebook or audiobook collection
Refreshing metadata across a large catalog
I understand that API capacity has real infrastructure costs, and I am not asking for unlimited free access. I would be willing to pay for a higher API tier with clearly defined limits.
A paid option could potentially include:
A higher requests-per-minute allowance
A larger daily request quota
Clear rate-limit headers or usage reporting
Different tiers based on expected request volume
Guidance for developers on batching, caching, and efficient API usage
This would make Hardcover much more practical as the metadata provider for larger self-hosted libraries while helping Hardcover recover the infrastructure costs associated with heavier API use.
My immediate use case is synchronizing authors and books into separate ebook and audiobook Bookshelf instances. The integration works, but adding authors and processing the catalog is currently extremely slow.
Thank you for considering a supported paid tier for users and developers who need greater API capacity.

Currently, when selecting an edition with a different translator than the main edition, the book card still shows the main edition's translator (example attached)
It would be nice if it showed one's selected edition's translator instead.

I hope you could consider some changed to the book page site. Adding an edited screenshot. I think this might make things more intuitive from a first glance.

For literary magazines.

Can we get a color for audiobook formats under reading formats on the stats page other than gray? Gray makes it seem like audiobooks are not its own valid category, kinda like how in the fiction vs non-fiction category there's a gray for all that aren't categorized as either.

I love that we have the new paused books feature (thank you! <3). I pause and pick books back up all the time so it's awesome to have.

We can access a list of paused books now, but it's quite hidden, particularly in comparison to other states (want to read, read, DNF, and CR).

Attached are screenshots of two menus that seem like reasonable places to add in the new "Paused" state.

That aside, a widget would be awesome! Before I had them as currently reading, and having them up front and very visible is how I end up restarting them most of the time, otherwise I would probably forget a lot of them.

Blocking a user should remove the Follow button from their profile and notifications and there should be clear indication that this is a user you have blocked. It should also hide their reviews on book pages and doesn't currently seem to.

Could be just a personal preference, but I think reviews, especially longer ones, would be easier on the eyes to read if the font size was a bit smaller. Maybe closer to the size used for the descriptions or even on this site

1. Make it easier to scan in owned books, so you can scan a bulk amount of barcodes at once (one instantly after another) rather than one at a time. (Look at BookBuddy for example)
2. flag when you’ve scanned one you already have (look at BookBuddy for example)
3. Make it easier to search cover options or link Google image to attach book covers

I’d love to see support for associating multiple editions (such as an ebook, audiobook, and print book) with a single reading journal.

I frequently switch between an ebook, the audiobook, and sometimes a physical copy while reading the same book. Currently, a reading journal can only be associated with a single edition, so my journal and reading statistics only reflect one format, even though I used multiple editions.

An ideal workflow would allow:

• One completed book
• One reading journal
• One review
• Multiple editions associated with the same reading experience

I think this would better reflect how many readers consume books today. For those of us who switch between an ebook, audiobook, and print book, it’s still one reading experience—not three. It would be great if our reading journal, review, and reading statistics reflected the complete reading experience rather than just a single edition.

It would be great to be able to drag and drop books in a calendar format to set dates read. Sometimes visualizing in calendar form helps a lot.

I would like to see the awesome stats just for a specific list.

Reading Goal block feels hidden on mobile. I think it would be better either between Currently Reading and Stats or after Stats as it is directly related. I want to see my progress!

It is possible to have a play button, to save a reading session, with reading time, number of pages read, leading to a statistic of pages read per hour, among others.

Maybe in the Settings > Account Settings page along with the Preferred Reading Format option.

I’d like to use Hardcover as my main place to track everything I read, including webnovels and light novels. Right now those formats don’t fit the app very well: they’re usually long, released chapter‑by‑chapter online, and often have both web and print versions of the same story.

A few concrete changes would help a lot:

Add formats for webnovels and light novels.
Being able to tag something as a “Webnovel” or “Light novel” (not just “Book”) would make shelves and stats clearer. For example, I could see only webnovels on a list, or see how much of my reading is print vs web.

Let us track progress by chapter for serials.
Many webnovels reach hundreds or thousands of chapters and are updated one chapter at a time. It would be very useful to set progress by chapter number (current chapter / chapters read, with an optional total) instead of only volumes or a simple finished/not finished.

Capture where the story lives online.
Web fiction is usually tied to a platform like Webnovel, RoyalRoad, ScribbleHub, Kakuyomu, Narou, etc. Fields for “source/platform” and a main URL would help with attribution and make it easier to build lists like “RoyalRoad series I follow” or “Webnovel titles I’m reading.”

Connect the web and print versions of the same story.
A lot of series start as webnovels and later get light‑novel editions. If those could be linked as different versions of the same work, it would be possible to track webnovel progress in chapters and light‑novel progress in volumes without splitting up stats or shelves.

I’m currently trying to build a curated list for a specific literary award, but I noticed there's no option to add individual notes or comments to books once they are added to a list.

For list curation, having a small notes/comment field for each book would be incredibly helpful. For example, it would allow users to specify why a book is in that list, or note specific details like "Winner (year)" or "Nominee (year)".

This would make custom lists much more informative and useful for the community.