Just a simple habit tracker for reading to track

• How many days it took to read a particular book
• How many days in a year read
• How many days read in total
  I've always wanted to track my reading through a heat map and build the habit to do so. It gives me motivation to keep reading honestly

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".

I'd like to create reading goals based on genres, moods or lists.

User story examples:

1. As a user I'd like to create a reading goal to read 12 books within a certain time frame that were marked to be of the genre Science Fiction.

2. As a user I'd like to create a reading goal to read 12 books within a certain time frame that were tagged with the mood "thought provoking".

3. As a user I'd like to create a list called "TBR Summer 2026" and set it as a reading goal to read all books on that list within a certain time frame.

When a sequel to a book is released, I would like to automatically be notified. For example, if a series with Book 1 and Book 2 are already released, I would want to be notified if Book 3 is ever published.

Ideally this feature can be on a per-book or series basis so I opt-in to track sequels I’m interested in.

It would be nice to have support for formatting in journal entries. In particular I'm looking for blockquote support

I want to chose myself which edition shows up in my libary, and in the lists I create

Some of the External Mappings will have book covers, this could be automatic imported, when no image is present

when you have an external source, they may have publication date, and since the site uses this to defined if the book as ever release makes this actually important

be able to remove an external mapping, or at least, if it was not you that added it by mistake, flag it to be revised with a remove reason

What the title says. I use Readwise Reader and Bookshop.org's reading app for ebooks for the most part. To have it sync up statuses and dates would be really really helpful.

I mostly listen to audiobooks, and would love to have my reading status synced up automatically with the two audiobook apps I use the most. Libro.fm might be a challenge, but Hoopla should be much more possible

I usually update the progress of how far I've read a book before I write in the reading journal, sometimes several times a day. These two things are for me not connected. And, since the last time I wrote in the journal, I may have read a few chapters. Regardless of where I am in the book, the journal want's me to either update the progress again, or simply accept the page I've noted down earlier to just remember my progress. For me this means that this data is always wrong in my journal, and irrelevant to my notes, so I usually don't touch it. What I would love, is to either have a free text field there, the option to ignore it for the entry, or, what I personally would use the most, a chapter select. Maybe after a day of reading I wish to make a few entries, one for each chapter I've read throughout the day, at the end of the day. Then the footnote data would also be useful for me again

On the Stats Tab,
i wan to know the % of books read by author gender (Men, Women, Other)

Objective, help people read more Women & Other !

Add a country field to an author.
(multiple)
To allow later a reading map by author country.

Need to be a select field to avoid wrong typing.

While this could be hard to implement, I'm sure some community members (even me) would love to help with anything if it meant having that data available to track on Hardcover too.

It's courteous (and sometimes a condition of use) to include a credit for the photographer of the author image.

It would be good to have a field for this, both to prompt librarians to include this info, and to avoid cluttering the author's bio.

Right now you can upload the same image multiple times and they show as separate images in the cover selection menu. I understand that you currently treat all image uploads as unique to avoid issues with common names (like cover.png or whatever), but you could deduplicate them based on the file checksum. That would save you some functionally insignificant amount of storage, but more importantly would improve the UX of the cover picker slightly.

Allow .25 star for example 3.25 or 4.75