Find your way around the Library

What the Library is for

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

TheReading the rows

A series isappears as a headerheading with its books listed beneath it in seriesorder. order; aA standalone book isgets a row of its own. On a series header:heading you'll find:

• the universe it belongs to, shown as a small tag thatyou openscan click to open the universe's codex—oror, if the series isn't in a universe yet but the pen name has some, a dashed + universe button to put it in one, if the pen name has universes and this series is in none;one;
• Add book and Import…, which putadd a new book into this series;
• thea … menu:menu rename,for moverenaming, moving to another series or pen name, archive,archiving, or deletedeleting for good.

Each book row has the same … menu, plus Open book. ClickClicking a title to openopens it in the editor.

The toolbar

Three groups,groups of buttons, each with a set of buttons: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, universeuniverse, or all of them.them together.
• Book lists — your catalogue as the back matter prints it, one list per pen name.

New series and New book

TopBoth are at the top right. New book makes a standalone;standalone. aA book that belongs in a series is added from thethat series' row instead, so it lands in the right place with its number. New series asks for a name, the pen name, andand—if optionallyyou like—a universe.

Archiving versusand deleting aren't the same thing

ArchiveArchiving sets a book or series aside—outaside: ofit leaves the list,list stillbut kept,is backkept withsafe, and Restore. Deletebrings it back. Deleting for good is whatexactly it says,that, and the menu askswill ask you to confirm.confirm before it does anything.