# Find your way around the Library

### What the Library is for

The Library is home: every series and book you have, grouped under the pen names you publish them with. The line under the heading keeps count—series, books, words—and the search box finds a series or title by name. If you've set something aside, **Show archived** brings it back into view.

![Screenshot: The Library](https://assets.authortools.net/help/screenshot-placeholder.png)
*Screenshot: The Library with a pen name and a few series and books listed, showing the count line under the heading, the search box, the Bring in / Back up / Manage toolbar and the New series and New book buttons at the top right.*

### Reading the rows

A series appears as a heading with its books listed beneath it in order. Any omnibuses (boxed sets) made from it sit below its books, under an **Omnibuses** line. A standalone book gets a row of its own. On a series heading you'll find:

- a small arrow at the left that folds the series shut, or opens it again;
- the universe it belongs to, shown as a small tag you can click to open the universe's codex—or, if the series isn't in a universe yet but the pen name has some, a dashed **+ universe** button to put it in one;
- **Add book** and **Import**, which add a new book to this series;
- a **…** menu for renaming, pinning it to the top, creating an omnibus (boxed set), changing its pen name and/or universe, archiving, or deleting for good.

![Screenshot: A series heading in the Library](https://assets.authortools.net/help/screenshot-placeholder.png)
*Screenshot: One series heading in the Library with its books beneath it, showing the fold arrow, the universe tag, the Add book and Import buttons and the … menu.*

Each book row has its own **…** menu: **Open book**, **Rename book**, **Change series and/or pen name**, and **Archive book**. Clicking a title opens it in the editor.

### Pin and fold your series

With a lot of series, you can keep the ones you're working on close at hand:

- **Pin to top** (in the series' **…** menu) moves it above the rest, marked with a small pin. Click the pin, or choose **Unpin from top**, to put it back. Pinned series keep their shelf order among themselves, and you can drag them to reorder.
- **Fold a series shut** with the arrow beside its name, and its books are tucked away until you open it again. A search still finds books in a folded series.

Write remembers both with your account, so the Library looks the same the next time you open it, on any device.

### The toolbar

Three groups of buttons, each with a label:

**Bring in**
- *Manuscript* — a manuscript from Word, Markdown or plain text, as a new book.
- *Backup* — a book's backup zip from Write, restored just as it was: over the book it came from, or as a new book.

**Back up**
- *All my books* — every book you own, each as its own backup, in one zip. A good habit before anything big.

**Manage**
- *Pen names* — the names you publish under, the universes their series share, and your About the Author bios.
- *Codexes* — your universes and their codexes: the characters, places, factions and rules that a setting's series share.
- *Media library* — every picture your books print, by book, series, universe, or all of them together.
- *Book lists* — your catalogue as the back matter prints it, one list per pen name.

### New series and New book

Both are at the top right. **New book** makes a standalone. A book that belongs in a series is added from that series' row instead, so it lands in the right place with its number. **New series** asks for a name, the pen name, and—if you like—a universe.

### Archiving and deleting aren't the same thing

Archiving sets a book or series aside: it leaves the list but is kept safe, and **Restore** brings it back. Deleting for good is exactly that, and the menu will ask you to confirm before it does anything.