Metadata comes in for free on upload
Bookhoarder reads the EPUB’s own title, author, ISBN, language, and cover.
Improve it from Open Library
A book’s Fetch metadata action looks up better matches by ISBN, title, and author, and lets you apply one.
Browse Trending to find something new
A daily/weekly/monthly feed of what’s popular on Open Library — separate from your own library until you upload something.
Metadata lookup
- Looks up candidates on Open Library using the book’s ISBN, title, and author
- You pick a candidate and apply it — title, author, description, and cover are all optional to accept
- Title, author, description, and cover can also be edited by hand at any time, independent of any lookup
- A cover can be replaced by uploading an image file or pasting an image URL
- Admins control how many candidates the lookup drawer requests, in Settings → Metadata
Trending
- A read-only feed of trending books from Open Library, by day, week, or month — for discovering what to read next, not part of your library until you add it yourself
- Admins can turn it off entirely in Settings → Trending, which also removes it from the sidebar