Hey I would to have a quote widget I could put in my home screen or even in my lock screen. That could be awesome! Thank you for all the amazing work

For devices like TVs or some eReaders, it can be tough to login with a browser or paste in a PAT. The solution to copy what Netflix, etc do: allow the user to sign in on another device and put in a 4-digit code to auth their Hardcover account.

I’d love to have the text be auto selected (highlighted?) when updating progress. It’s a bit of an annoyance having to select it to update it. At least on mobile (iOS)

Give the option for count pages of not finished books on stats widgets and challenges progress

When adding a book: This could be by publisher, country/language, or format.

When I go to an Author page: I just want to see what titles exist (being able to toggle into a title for various languages & formats would help in presenting a cleaner list overall).

Something that helps smooth out how this works across different scenarios.

I'm finding myself getting lost between remembering where to define what format the book was and which dates i was reading it.

It took me many tries to understand just how to add a book as read with unknown dates.

Would love to be able to toggle which features I want to use (and that are visible) since there are so many features here (which is lovely).

I'm that user that just wants to track things i've read or not and when and to create lists.

Personally, I'm not sure if I want to see such a fine grain exploration of my stats.

I'm agnostic when it comes to owning physical media, and not sure if i need to be tracking audio vs eBook vs physical books here.

The stats for genre might be useful but it may take much more work from the community for the graph to be useful.

(Was finding this frustrating on the ios app, but I'll keep digging around here in case this has already been taken care of.)

tysvm for making this and helping us all to get away from that other place.

It would be great to be able to see what individual books are linked as part of a compilation without having to go into the edit page

I really don’t know how doable it is, but it’s my dream to have a feature that could automatically detect book titles from a video (mostly from instagram or TikTok) and open the corresponding page into Hardocover.

When I want to send a link to a friend it copies this text also which is just unnecessary, it should just copy the link and not a mini ad for the site everytime, big fan of the site so far, just my one major gripe

Percentage as first class progress indicator

There are editions where pages are not yet known. Obviously you could hack this by falling back to 1000 pages (what I've done locally for a koinsight server for backwards compatibility).

For any given quantity of unstructured text I can tell you what percentage I am through the text even without known the pagination of the text. It would be great if this were supportable!

The UI doesn't gracefully degrade right now.

Decouple the reading progress from the edition. Then add a format [physical, ebook, audiobook] to the API and manual progress update to better track what medium. This would be nice for people whose switch between book formats.

Please add Worldcat as an external link option

In the app version, when updating progress you tap the input field, you first have to clear whatever is filled in. It would be way nicer and faster if the input field is cleared, so you can immediately type the new value, as there is no use case when you don't want it cleared.

In some regions, joint publishing is standard practice where a book packager/company collaborates with a licensed state publisher. Because Hardcover’s Publisher metadata field currently only accepts a single value, users and data imports create fragmented, duplicate publisher entries using various delimiters (e.g., Nhã Nam & NXB Văn Học, NXB Văn Học, Nhã Nam, Nhã Nam | NXB Văn Học).

This creates duplicate entities, cluttered search results, and inconsistent metadata across the platform.

Proposed Solution
Update the edition metadata schema to support multiple publishers, similar to how the Author/Contributor field works.

I'd like to be able to choose the activity types that show in my main following/friend feed, the same way we can on the dashboard feed.

Hebrew (HE) is currently missing from the language selector when specifying the language in which a book was read, even though many other languages are available.

There are Hebrew editions and translations of many books on Hardcover, so it would be helpful to be able to accurately record that a book was read in Hebrew.

Could Hebrew (HE) please be added to the list of supported reading languages?

My apps where I listen to ebooks dont provide the time I am on, but instead how much is left. I need to do mathematical equations in order to mark it

I would love if I could make reading goals be more specific. I have a goal for example to read 20 of a specific genre or from a specific author. Some other filters eould be nice too

I have lots of books that I own (hello humble bundle books and constant kobo sales) and I have such a hard time deciding what to read next! It would be so cool if there was something that would recommend books in my owned list based on some kind of match score or compared to other books I liked.

Many books are in more than one series, for larger universes or publications vs chronological order, you can see all of them when editing, but it would be great to be able to add a column to table view so you could see any other series a book is in when viewing at the series level, or to be able to filter by two or more series that might overlap

Add the possibility to configure the calendar of Reading Activity to show the book percentage read instead of number of pages.
Instead of 41 pages on this date should show 10% read on this date.

Margins app had a very nice feature where you could mark a book as “plan to read again.” As someone who occasionally reads a book more than once or if I decide to “soft dnf” a book with the intention of picking it back up at a later date, an option like this would be very handy to have!

It would be nice to be able to apply italic or bold formatting to quotes.