Hardcover

Name: Hardcover
Rating: 4.8 (15 reviews)

Social discovery for serious book lovers

4.8•15 reviews•

439 followers

Social discovery for serious book lovers

4.8•15 reviews•

439 followers

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Hardcover is a social network for people to track what they read and want to read, make lasting connections with other readers and find life-changing books. We're anti-Amazon, pro-author, actively pursuing feedback and just getting started. 📚

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HardcoverDiscover, track and read life-changing books

Launched on September 30th, 2023

HardcoverSocial discovery for serious book lovers

Launched on March 2nd, 2022

4.8

Based on 15 reviews

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Reviewers see Hardcover as one of the first Goodreads alternatives that feels usable enough to stick with, with repeated praise for its clean, fast interface, strong search, easy logging, and recommendation tools. Users also like the visible pace of improvements and the sense that the team listens. The main complaints are still about rough edges: occasional bugs, performance hiccups, confusing features like “Airlist,” incorrect covers, and limited catalog depth for some non-English or localized editions.

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goodreads alternative (7)

AI recommender (3)

book tracking (3)

excellent interface (3)

planned features (3)

branding and design (2)

fast performance (2)

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•1 review

Overall it's great. You still can see some performance issues and places to polish, but it's sooo much better than goodreads. I will go up to 5 stars when i will be able to find all of books I'm interested in or if i will get the option to add a book myself (I'm from Poland, polish books are still hard to find on Hardcover). One other thing - when i find my book it's usually English version, which for me is fine, but It would be great if i could choose (or manually add) my localized edition. If i read something in polish i would like to have the polish edition in my bookshelf. So - choosing book edition on bookshelf would be awesome.

What's great

goodreads alternative (7)

What needs improvement

performance issues (1)limited book editions (1)

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Thanks for the review Jakub! We're hard at work polishing every little detail. Re: adding a book - that's coming soon. We just launched the Librarian feature and we're testing it. As soon as everything is ironed out we'll be adding the possibility to add your own editions. I can add you as a librarian if you want to be able to edit book data, just send me your @. If you know is ISBN of the specific edition you can also add it here: https://hardcover.app/books/new As for the edition you've read showing up on the book page - would showing the localized cover of the edition in your library and on the book page be what you're looking for? Thanks!

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2yr ago

•1 review

Been using it for a few months, mainly to track recommendations I get elsewhere. The search function is quite good, and adding missing books via ISBN is fairly frictionless. I tried the AI recommender the other day and found some cool books. Still run into the occasional bug or finicky feature but it's my favourite book tracker (I've tried Goodreads, LibraryThing and Oku). I paid for premium the other day to support development.

What's great

book tracking (3)AI recommender (3)goodreads alternative (7)

What needs improvement

occasional bugs (1)

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•1 review

SO nice. Finally, a Goodreads replacement. Really nice UI, fast and way easier than Goodreads. Recommendations will get better as more users get on. I only wish it could connect with my Kindle and automatically mark things read for me, but that's not their fault.

What's great

fast performance (2)goodreads alternative (7)excellent interface (3)

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Thanks for the review Elyse! Syncing Kindle is something on our list of priorities. It's a very tough technical integration apparently (maybe on purpose), but we've got some things we're trying out to see if we can make that happen. Will keep you posted on how that's going.

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2yr ago

•1 review

What's great

goodreads alternative (7)

What needs improvement

performance issues (1)limited book editions (1)

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What's great

book tracking (3)AI recommender (3)goodreads alternative (7)

What needs improvement

occasional bugs (1)

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What's great

fast performance (2)goodreads alternative (7)excellent interface (3)

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