Shelves

A fresh install has four shelves: Home (all your books, as spines), Recent (a list of what you've opened), Series and Genres. Change any of them, delete them, or add your own.

Add a shelf

1. Long-press any shelf's tab to open the shelf editor.
2. Tap the plus icon at the bottom right.
3. Pick a source: what the new shelf shows. See Sources, filters and sorting.
4. The shelf is named after its source. Tap Edit label to rename it.
5. Close.

The new shelf sits just after the one you long-pressed.

You can also add one from Bookshelf› > Edit shelves…› > + Add new shelf.

The quickest shelf of all

Open a series, author, genre or collection, long-press it and choose Pin. It becomes a shelf of its own.

What the clip shows, step by step:

1. Add a shelf of your own to the shelf menu
2. Long-press any shelf's tab to open its editor
3. Tap + to add a new shelf
4. Choose its source: Authors, one stack per author
5. Give it a name with Edit label
6. Tap Close. Changes are saved as you go
7. Your new shelf has its own tab

Add a shelf: the plus button, then a source.

The shelf editor

Long-press a shelf's tab for its editor. Everything applies as you tap: there's no Save.

The shelf editor

Row	What it does
‹ Edit label ›	Rename the shelf. Insert icon… puts a glyph in the label. The arrows either side move the shelf left or right.
Source / grouping	What the shelf shows.
Filters	What it leaves out.
Shelf style	How it looks: theme, covers, list or spines. See Covers, lists and spines.
1: 2: 3:	Up to three levels of sort.
Bin icon	Delete the shelf, after asking.
Close	Done.
Plus icon	Add a new shelf after this one.

Edit label

Insert icon… opens the Icons library

Reorder, hide and rename

What the clip shows, step by step:

1. Hide, rename and reorder your shelves
2. Open the top menu, then Edit shelves…
3. Long-press a shelf to hide it: untick Recent
4. Tap a shelf to edit it
5. Edit label renames it
6. The arrows move it along the shelf menu
7. Tap Close to see the result
8. Recent is hidden, Subjects comes before Series

Edit shelves: hide one, move one.

Change the order of the tabs

1. Long-press the shelf's tab to open its editor.
2. Tap ‹ to move it one place left, or › to move it one place right. The arrows sit either side of Edit label, and the tabs move as you tap.
3. Close when it's where you want it.

Hide, show and rename

Bookshelf› > Edit shelves… lists every shelf:

• Tap a shelf to open its editor, where Edit label renames it.
• Long-press a shelf to hide or show it. A hidden shelf keeps its settings.

Two switches at the top change the whole shelf menu:

• Flexible shelf widths: each tab as wide as its name, so icon-only tabs stay narrow.
• Uppercase labels: shelf names in capitals.

The size of the shelf menu's text is under Bookshelf› > Settings› > Text size› > Shelf menu.

Bookshelf > Edit shelves…

Shelves inside shelves

A Shelf of shelves is a shelf that holds other shelves, shown as tiles. Useful for keeping the shelf menu short: a "Reading" shelf holding To read, In progress and Finished, say.

1. Add a shelf and choose Shelf of shelves as its source.
2. Tap the + Add shelf tile to add a shelf inside it.
3. Long-press a tile to edit that shelf. Each has every option a normal shelf has.

A shelf inside wears its parent's theme until you give it one of its own. Deleting a shelf of shelves deletes the shelves inside it.

A new shelf of shelves, with its + Add shelf tile

Starting again

Bookshelf› > Settings› > Advanced› > Reset shelf menu to defaults puts back the shipped shelves, after asking.