Shelf Screen Overview

shelf screen

This screen shows you a scrollable list of all the shelves you have.

For each 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

you can change the icons, or remove them completely, in the Settings Screen

you can change the fields displayed using the Assign List Fields on the Settings Screen

The 'Unshelved' shelf always exists and contains all Books not allocated to any shelf
It default setting is to be hidden when there are no unshelved Books



Menu/Actions

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Multi Selection
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Add
addscan & add
Scan & Add
addscan
Scan One
addhome
Home Screen
scan inscan inscan out
Library Scanning
addfilter
Filter
addupdate
Rename
adddelete
Delete
shareexportexport
Share/Import/Export
searchsearch
Search
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Settings
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Help & Info

Multi select items (long press)
multi   multi

Change into multi mode and back out again

Select/deselect All Items
multi

Select all Items or select no Items


Add
add
add

Add Book

items add new dialog

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:

add new Book dialog

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


Scan & Add
scan & add
scan & add

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


Scan
scan
scan

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


Home
home
home

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

home menu


Library Scanning
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scan out
scan in

Only displayed when loaned to field enabled in the Advanced Fields Settings

Scan to loan Books out or to return Books

You will be prompted for who to loan to:

library dialog


Filter
filter
filter

Displays Books matching one of the fields:

filtered choice dialog

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:

choose filter field


Then enter your wanted field value:

choose filter value


Rename
rename
rename

Changes the name of the selected shelf:

rename shelf dialog


Delete
rename
delete

Deletes the selected shelves

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

delete shelf dialog


Share/Import
share
export

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

export import menu


Search
search
search

Opens the Search Screen or searches for Books in various ways

See the Search Page for more details
find dialog


Settings
settings
settings

Starts the Settings Screen


Help
settings
settings

Starts the Help Screen



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