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
Can you give an example book marked as unreleased? I wanted to check if it was already there before yout import. We do import the language on singular book imports. Country import will need a new sytem as ISBN as groups instead of countries, so we can only apply that for non group ones or the new 979 series books.
We have conflicting consensues on removing summaries. We will add a serate category tag and filter them from searches by default at some point. The summary getting imported instead of the book is a new isssue. If you can link a google sheets doc with stripped down import file with no personal info, I can take a look at that. If you want a more secure channel, email me at xyz. ( Deleting the adress as I got the mail.)
Govind Thank you for the response! Sorry I took a bit to write again. Here's a series all marked as unreleased that I had on the csv for that imprort, not sure if it existed on hardcover before. https://hardcover.app/series/leather-and-lattes. I've recently read the breakdown of ISBNs on the librarian's FAQ, that's annoying for this specific issue lol. It would be much easier for this if it was by country, I guess. The summaries, I can see why there'd be conflicting opinions, but the filtering them out would be great because they tend to be on top of the results and push the books down (e.g. attached screenshots, i had this issue with books in english as well). I'll email you about the import thing! But to be clear, this was back in december before there was the wonderful example file you have now and having looked back at it, it's not great. My most recent import a couple weeks ago with a only about 130 books didn't have this issue (and was faaar easier, thank you so much to the team for that example file)
Antü So the planned book lozenge is shown when the book is lacking a release date or if the relate date is down the line. I fixed the date for the released books from the series, so it should show up properly now. The search disregards popularity to try and match the most accurate/closest one. We keep the english edition as the primary/display name so that would be the corrrect result if the book is formatted correctly. Showing the original name somewhere in the book page is a popular feature request.
Let me test out the import. I will reply to via mail.