How to add a new book

You almost never have to type book details by hand. Give All My Books a title, an author or an ISBN, and it downloads the rest.

  1. Click Add on the toolbar or press Ins (Book › Add…). An empty book card opens.
  2. Type the book title into the Title field and press Enter. The program searches the online source shown in the title bar of the card.
  3. If more than one book matches, a list of results appears. Double-click the right one.
  4. The card fills in: title, original title, authors, publisher, year, ISBN, rating, synopsis and the cover.
  5. Click OK to save, or Next book to save and start another card straight away.
List of books found in the online source
When several books match, pick the right edition from the list.

Nothing found? Different sources know different books. Open the drop-down next to the search button and try another one — Goodreads and Google Books for English titles, Chitai-gorod or MyBookList for Russian ones, ISBNdb when you have the number. See Adding a book automatically.

Other ways in: by barcode, from an e-book file, from an audiobook, or by scanning a whole drive.

Next: How to find a book.

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