Libraries & shelves

Libraries group books by whatever makes sense to you — genre, format, reading pile, a friend's recommendations. Shelves are saved filter presets that let you jump to a specific view with one click. Both appear in the sidebar.

Libraries

Creating a library

Click the + next to "Libraries" in the sidebar. Give it a name, pick a Lucide icon, and choose whether it's public or private. Public libraries are visible to all users; private ones are only visible to the owner and explicitly assigned users.

Adding books

There are two ways to add books to a library:

• On a book's detail page, use the library assignment dropdown
• On the dashboard, multi-select books and use Add to library in the bulk toolbar

A book can belong to multiple libraries at once. Removing a book from a library doesn't delete the book — it only unlinks it.

Private libraries

When you create a library with Public toggled off, only you and users you explicitly assign can see the books in it. Admins can assign users to any library from the library's edit modal.

Reordering

Libraries appear in the sidebar in sort order. Drag to reorder them, or edit the sort order value directly.

Shelves

A shelf is a saved filter. Set up any combination of filters on the dashboard — series, author, tag, format, reading status, library, or missing fields — then click Save as shelf in the filter bar. The shelf appears in the sidebar under "Shelves" and restores those exact filters when clicked.

Use shelves for views you return to often: "Unread manga", "Books missing covers", "Everything by Brandon Sanderson".

Sharing a shelf, series, or book

Hover a shelf in the sidebar, open a series page, or open a book page and hit the share icon to mint a public link — a clean, read-only page anyone can open without an account. It shows covers, titles, tags, descriptions, and your ratings and highlights for the books on the shelf, andnever anything else: no downloads, no in-browser reading, no route to book files at all — the public endpoint is structurally incapable of serving content. Links are unguessable, marked noindex, limited to what you yourself can see, and revocable at any time (the link dies instantly) — or give them an optional 1/7/30-day expiry when creating. Settings → Share links lists every link you've minted, with copy and revoke. Creating and revoking are recorded in the audit log.

Visibility rules

Who sees what depends on role and library membership. For the full breakdown, seeUsers, roles & visibility.

• Admins see all books in all libraries
• Members see books in public libraries, in libraries they own, and in libraries shared with them — plus their own uploads
• Guests see books in public libraries

Library membership is the gate: place a book in a private library and it's hidden from everyone except the owner, assigned users, and admins — regardless of who uploaded it. A book that isn't in any library at all remains visible to everyone (a member's own unfiled uploads stay private to them); to restrict a book, put it in a private library.