• Viewing a book

Viewing a book

Sharing

Sharing requires an internet connection (either through Wi-FI, cellular, etc).

Email

This option will provide you with detailed information about the book you are viewing to send to an email address.  There is also a link that will allow the receiver to import the book into their book crawler database.

 

Community

This option will allow you to share a book with the book crawler community and, optionally, other social networks.

A geo-location is provided with the community post.  You are able to adjust the location by moving the map.  By default, privacy is turned on.  This means that the geo-location will be randomized to within your settings under Community -> Profile.  The default setting is five miles.

The tag will control how information is posted.  A review tag will post the book as a "review" in Goodreads, other tags will post as a "status update" in Goodreads.  The reading tag will allow you to include your current page or the percent of the book that has been read.

You may optionally post the book to the other networks listed (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Goodreads).

Press "Share" to share the book to all selected networks.


 

Facebook (available when Social Networks is ON)

This option will allow you to make a post to your facebook wall.

 

Twitter (available when Social Networks is ON)

This option will allow you to tweet this book to your twitter account.

Custom attributes (Custom 1, Custom 2, Switch, Decimal, Date)

The custom fields may be used to store information on anything you desire.

Some examples on how to use this field could be:

  • Read Status
  • Illustrator
  • Narrator
  • Library information
  • Publishing address

This field can then be used to sort your books in the same way that other fields are used.  Select the custom field from the more icon at the bottom of the screen when viewing your list of books.

 

"Custom 1" and "Custom 2" are values that can be words or phrases. "Switch" is a two-state value (on/off, yes/no, etc).  "Decimal" is a number. "Date" is a date.

 

All custom fields can be renamed under the Settings page.

Searching

All searches require an internet connection (either through Wi-FI, cellular, etc)

Editions

The edition is searched by the title, author, and/or isbn. Books with the Google preview icon in the lower left-hand corner have a preview available on Google's website.

    • Filtering by language
      • To filter the list of books found by language, enter you preferred language and select "YES". The filtering is done by the ISBN country code, so if no ISBN was found, the edition will be filtered out.
    • Filtering by title
      • Filtering the books by title will only display the books that have an exact match for the title entered on the previous screen.

 

Only one edition can currently be selected at a time.  Use the author interface if you wish to select multiple editions during each search.

Apple Store

This search will allow you to find purchase options of eBooks and audio books through the Apple stores.  Selecting a result will show you a synopsis of the book and allow you to enter iTunes or iBooks to view the entry.

 

Library

The Library search will utilize WorldCat to display locations of nearby libraries containing the book.  This feature requires location services to be enabled.

Searching

All searches require an internet connection (either through Wi-FI, cellular, etc)

Editions

The edition is searched by the title, author, and/or isbn. Books with the Google preview icon in the lower left-hand corner have a preview available on Google's website.

    • Filtering by language
      • To filter the list of books found by language, enter you preferred language and select "YES". The filtering is done by the ISBN country code, so if no ISBN was found, the edition will be filtered out.
    • Filtering by title
      • Filtering the books by title will only display the books that have an exact match for the title entered on the previous screen.

 

Only one edition can currently be selected at a time.  Use the author interface if you wish to select multiple editions during each search.

Apple Store

This search will allow you to find purchase options of eBooks and audio books through the Apple stores.  Selecting a result will show you a synopsis of the book and allow you to enter iTunes or iBooks to view the entry.

 

Library

The Library search will utilize WorldCat to display locations of nearby libraries containing the book.  This feature requires location services to be enabled.

Editing date read

The date read screen will allow you to enter the date that you read a book once "YES" is selected. If you don't remember when you read the book, just select the distant past.

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