Book Library - Books Screen

This screen displays all Books for the current shelf, as well as any sub Shelves.

For each Book you can see:

• Title of the Book - top line
• Rating Stars
• The Book Image (if list images are enabled)
• The Series Name and Number
• The Release Date
• The Author
• The Shelf Name
• Icons for tags and if loaned (if icons enabled)

For each sub Shelf you can see:

• Name of the shelf - top line
• Total Number of Books
• A count of these fields will also be shown if the field is visible
• Owned Number of Books
• Wanted Number of Books
• Unread Number of Books
• number of Books loaned out

Change into multi mode and back out again

Select all Items or select no Items

Add Book

You can add (type) a new Shelf

You can start the Edit Details Screen to add a new Book

You can type a Book title or an ISBN to add it to the current shelf immediately:

You can Find & Add Books by Title or Series or Author

Repeatedly scans an ISBN and adds it to the current shelf

If an ISBN already exists, a new Book will not be added

An information lookup will be triggered for each new item scanned (in the background)

See the Scanning Page for more details on scanning barcodes

Scans an ISBN then displays the Edit Details Screen

An information lookup will be triggered as soon as the Edit Details Screen is displayed

See the Scanning Page for more details on scanning barcodes

Assign this view out to to the Home Screen as one of the shortcut views

If you select one of the random lists, then a set of random Books will be shown on the Home Screen

Displays Books matching one of the fields:

Matching Books will be displayed in the Filtered Books Screen

You can filter by Wanted, Owned and Read fields that are visible

Or (on the Shelves Screen) view all Books

Or for matching values within a chosen field:

Then enter your wanted field value:

These will be limited to just those Books on the current shelf

Changes the name of the Book

Quick Update Books, as the menu option

You will be prompted for what to update:

Starts the export or import process
or starts Connect to other device process

Opens the Search Screen or searches for Books in various ways

See the Search Page for more details

Switches the view between List or Grid mode

Note you will need 'Images Visible In the List' enabled in Settings Screen to see images.

The title and the series number will be displayed if no image is available,
custom colors will only be seen if there is no image.

This is the same as choosing the size in Settings Screen

If you have 'Individual Settings' enabled then this will be remembered for this view only

Select the order the Books are displayed:

Series: Sorts by the Book Series name and number

Title: Sorts by the Book Title

Series/Title: Sorts by a combination of Series (if set, otherwise Title), Series Number

the series text is cleaned before sorting - removing 'a', 'the' etc.

This is a good choice when not all Books have a Series

Author: Sorts by the Author

Released Date: Sorts by the Released Date

Rating: Sorts by the Rating(if field is visible)

Genre: Sorts by the Genre (if field is visible)

Sequence: Sorts by the Sequence (if field is visible)

The list will then be further sorted by Series/Title as appropriate

This will check each Book and attempt to fill any missing information

You will first need to select which Books to update:

This will check each Book to see if it's image is present, if not it will attempt to download the image

This is a good way of reloading the images after an Import

Starts the Settings Screen

Starts the Help Screen

Opens the Edit Details Screen, to edit the Book

Changes the name of the selected Book:

Quickly update any tag field and the loaned field:

You can also see who has been loaned a Book and return it:

Quickly move the selected Book to a different shelf:

You can also type the name of a new Shelf using the 'New Shelf' button

Lookup missing info for this Book

The update is much faster over a wifi connection:

Duplicates the Book, you can enter a new Title:

A New ISBN will be given to the Book

This will be the ISBN suffixed with a .1 or .2 etc, depending on how many copies of the barcode already exist

This allows import/export to still function on copies of Books

Search for the selected Book on the web

See the Search Page for more details

Allows deletion of a Book, you will be asked to confirm the delete

This will update the displayed image (only available if Images are visible)

This will download the image (only available if Images are visible)

Opens the Books Screen, to view the Books

Changes the name of the selected shelf:

Allows deletion of a shelf:

You will be prompted to either

Delete just the shelf name (moving all Books to the 'unshelved' shelf)

or to delete all the Books in the shelf as well