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 100 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 in Browse 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 History tab in 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 on the Reading History page or 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 settlings and turn it off.

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.

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.