When you finish a book, the update posted to friends' feeds will also show your review if you wrote one. It'd be cool if your review also showed up when you mark a book as DNF.
When you finish a book, the update posted to friends' feeds will also show your review if you wrote one. It'd be cool if your review also showed up when you mark a book as DNF.
For series that have multiple reading orders or that have prequel/sequel/same universe series it would be nice to be able to have those linked on a series' page. For example the Chronicles of Narnia has a publication order and a chronological order, there could be a toggle between the two versions or a link to the alternate reading order. Alternatively Holly Black has multiple series within the same universe and some overlapping characters, the modern faerie tales is a trilogy set in the same world as the folk of the air trilogy which has a sequel series, the stolen heir duology.
"For a book to have a match percentage:
It must have been rated by at least one person."
currently all recommended books are really obviously skewed by having very low reader numbers (like less than 10).
I like how on goodreads you can also see which of your top rated books the recommendation is based off of.
It would be nice to have and option to choose how you want to display your books. Like, toggle in my preferable way and keep it that way. I have to always click in the "shelf" option when seeing my books.
I prefer shelves like that, it could be a third mix between "tables" and "shelfs" options.
I still get a lot of recommendations from friends on Goodreads that won't leave. I would love it if I could select the links to books they recommend from my email, but have it instead auto-redirect to the same book on Hardcover!
Functionality to have a time tracker, for how many minutes you spend reading, and when finishing a session, add the page number/percentage of where you stopped, to track pages read per hour.
Book reading tracking details:
Track per session:
Additional stats one could add:
Why?
I personally like seeing how fast I read, and how long it takes me to read a book. It also helps if you want to have a goal of e.g. read 30 minutes a day, you can set a reading goal, and use this tracker functionality to make sure you reached 30 minutes reading)
(yes, this is inspired, by another book tracker app...)
Right now you have to go to the book item (example: Dracula) and then you can add it to a list (example: Vampires) through the menu. I would love if we could go to the list (Vampires) and then have a way to quick add book titles that automatically add to the list you are viewing. This would be separate from another feature request which is to bulk edit titles to add to a list.
An additional level of privacy between "followers" and "private" would be useful to users who want to invite family or coworkers to the app, but don't want certain books visible to them, while allowing those books to be visible to others.
Inviting family or coworkers to an app tends to come with expectations that if they follow you, you have to follow them back. This can lead to marking books as private that you would otherwise want shared with a subset of like-minded readers, or it can lead to not inviting people to the app as a privacy measure.
Toasts saying something happen correctly are mostly redundant; and on smaller devices they're really annoying. After I finish reading my book, I set it to read, then set a star. Maybe I change my mind two times, or miss click. And my entire screen is green toasts saying something I just did has happened. The UI has already updated to reflect my changed (Status now says read, the stars are coloured in like I selected).
I personally think it'd be fine to just remove all of them outright (unless the UI does not reflect). As the UI update should show the user their action has completed successfully, that together with the absence of an error toasts should be enough. Possible others might want them, so a setting could help? (That said, settings for everything is pretty bad as well)
I need a way to synchronise my books with my Calibre library.
I really don't want to enter everything manually. o_O
I would also like to have the option of synchronising with KyBook 3.
As far as I can tell the main search bar for lists only searches public lists. I have quite a lot of private lists, and it can take a lot of scrolling and clicking to get to the ones later in the alphabet on my user lists page. The "Tip: You can create new lists from here" message kinda looks like a search bar with the way it's colored but it's not lol. I'd love to be able to just start typing the name of a list and have it come up easily
Just like we can set the default view of a list (card/shelf/table), I'd also like to be able to set a default sort method for each list. For example, I have a Waiting for Publication list that I want to already be sorted by release date each time I open it, instead of having to manually change it each time.
I'd like to be able to see at a glance whether an author has publicly stated that they do not use AI for writing or for the cover art of their books. It could be something librarians could add (possibly with source provided to head librarians for approval) or something that authors can select themselves after becoming verified. It would also be nice to use it as a filter when searching for a new book to read.
Can we add a feature where we can custom add books to our own bookshelves without adding them to the public catalogue? For the purpose of tracking things like unpublished stories or fanfiction.
I know a lot of users of Storygraph and Fable who really enjoy the reading streak features and stick with those platforms due to the investment into seeing a streak continue. It could be a fun feature to keep users engaged
I saw on isbn.de a cool feature where you can click on the parts of the ISBN and it takes you to a list of other books by the publisher (or group or prefix, depending on what you click)
It would be cool if there was an advanced ISBN based search on hardcover, where publishers get a ISBN publisher prefix (or multiple) assigned to them, could probably be done automatically as well
So that you could search by group (country/language) or by publisher using part of an ISBN
Example of isbn.de: https://www.isbn.de/978-3-453-
I want to see which books I have not read in a list or genre. Right now these are scattered everywhere regardless of the sort chosen.
I'm looking for a way to filter by status, genre, and list combinations. I want to see the science fiction genre books, in my TBR list, that have a List marker telling me LibraryA has the book in audio format. At the moment
The list that appears when you click on "Add to List" used to be sorted with the checked lists on top. For some reason the sort function was removed and has yet to be put back.
It would be really cool if users could follow the public lists of other users. This would allow them to keep track of when a list is updated with a notification in case they're wanting to see what the list owner has recently added.
For web novels, manga and anything else that release chapter by chapter (serially), it would be nice to have a toggle on the edition page to tag it as such, also when toggled on it can add an end date field
So that novels will appear as 2016-2020 or 2016- if they're still ongoing
I'm sure its a metadata issue not necessarily an entirely ui issue but it would be nice to have a separate field for narrators for audiobooks. Right now they are combined under one field - author.
I'd love to be able to add comments for each book on a list about why I added it to that list. For example in a list about disability, I could note what disabilities are featured in each book. Ideally this should be publicly visible on public lists, so people browsing can make more informed decisions about what they'd like to read based on the listmaker's notes, too.
It would be amazing if there was an option to share Hardcover Supporter status via Apple Family Sharing. My partner is a much more avid reader than I am. As a family we would like to support the great work y’all are doing but would prefer not to pay twice for the two of us.
When selecting a page within the app, the page is not focused until it is loaded. This feels unresponsive. Pages should be focused and then loaded.