Help & Tips

Bookplate libraries can be shared with household members, reading partners, or anyone age 13 or older that you choose. Click on your name in the top right corner to open the dropdown menu. Click on Manage Users and enter an email address to send an invitation.

The invited person will receive an email with a link to set up their account. Once accepted, they'll have full access to the shared library. The following details do not apply to beta user libraries. If the owner is on a Free tier account, a shared 250 book limit applies.

Roles: Owner: can add and edit books, manage members, and configure library data used to organize your books. User: can add and edit books but cannot manage members, library configuration, or billing.

Privacy: Books, reading status, and ratings are visible to all members of a shared library. Personal notes you write on a book are always private to you.

Every book in your library has a status: Unread, Reading, and Read. Tap the badge on any book detail page or on a library card to cycle through them.

Two additional states exist for book separate from reading activity: DNF (Did Not Finish) and Won't Read. DNF is simple -- you started a book but didn't finish it. Won't Read in a shared library and know you will never read a title. This removes the title from your unread stats and will not be randomly chosen by Let Fate Decide widget.

You can review reading history via the Journal tab at the top of any page. This will be populated by reading logs from import, a reading status update in Bookplate, or by manually adding a read if you read a library book, a lent book, or even a Kindle Unlimited read. The historical data will always be present, even if you decide to gift or otherwise remove a book from your library.

On a book you've read, you can add a star rating (0.5–5 stars), a read date, and private notes. (And yes, we have implemented half stars. We are not monsters.) All of this lives in your Journal or on the book detail page.

TBR (To Be Read) is your reading queue. Add any unread book in your library to the TBR list and arrange them in the order you plan to read them. The first few books in queue will appear on your dashboard. Access it from the navigation or your dashboard. If you don't want the feature enabled, visit your settings and turn it off.

Patiently Waiting is the TBR's understudy. When your queue is empty (or TBR is turned off), the dashboard fills that spot with the unread books that have sat on your shelves the longest. They're two answers to the same question — what should I read next? — so you'll only ever see one of them: start a queue and TBR takes the stage; clear it and Patiently Waiting returns.

Wishlist tracks books you want to own or read that aren't in your library yet. You can add entries manually by title and author, or save a book to the wishlist directly from search results. There may also be historical data populated if you have completed a data import and had saved wishlist books. When you acquire the book, move it to your library with one tap.

Your dashboard's shelves show what's happening now: Currently Reading, TBR, Recently Added, Just Finished. The little number next to a shelf's name is always the full count, even when the shelf previews only a few covers: "TBR 12" means twelve books in your queue, not the five you can see.

2026 by Month charts the books you've finished each month this year. The "on pace" line is a simple projection: your reads so far, stretched across the rest of the year. It's encouragement, not a deadline.

2026 in Genres shows your reading taste, not a tally. Each book you finish counts exactly once, and if it carries several genres the credit splits evenly between them: a fantasy-romance gives half a book to each. That's why the legend shows percentages, the slices always add up to the number in the middle, and Everything else gathers whatever didn't make the top of the list. Books without genres sit out of this chart entirely (the Suggestions card will nudge you when a few need tagging).

Where Should I Look? counts the books at each of your locations, so you know which shelf to wander to. And Let Fate Decide picks a random unread book when choosing is the hard part; books marked Won't Read are never drafted.

The search bar at the top of every page searches your library, reading history, and authors simultaneously. Search by title, subject, author name, or ISBN; partial matches and slight misspellings are handled automatically.

Results are grouped by category and matching text is highlighted inline. Press / or ⌘K to focus the search bar from anywhere in the app.

Your library is yours, and that includes leaving with it. Click your name in the top right corner and choose Import & export for one place with everything:

• Export your library as a CSV spreadsheet: every book with its genres, formats, and reading status.
• Export your reading journal as a CSV: titles, dates, ratings, and your notes. In a shared library, your journal export contains your own reading record only.
• Import your library from a spreadsheet or our free template: books you own, added to your shelves.
• Import your reading history from Goodreads or LibraryThing: what you've read, added to your Journal.

Exports are plain CSV files that open in any spreadsheet app. No lock-in, no request forms, no waiting.