Documentation

Every way to add ebooks and comics to BookShelves on Mac, iPhone and iPad: drag and drop, the Files app, Calibre libraries, OPDS catalogs and Discover.

What the free version of BookShelves includes, what Pro adds, and how to restore a purchase on a new device.

Sort books onto shelves and sub-shelves, use smart shelves and tags, and find any book with search, filters and sorting.

Fix a book's title, authors, description, ISBN, publisher or language, and replace its cover.

Change the font, text size, theme, spacing, margins and page layout in the BookShelves reader, and learn how to turn pages, search and use the table of contents.

Highlight passages in five colors, add notes, bookmark pages, find them again, and export your highlights to Markdown, JSON or CSV.

Read CBZ, CBR and CB7 comics in BookShelves with single-page or two-page layouts, right-to-left order for manga, and zoom.

Zoom, two-page spreads, search, highlights and themes in the BookShelves PDF reader.

Keep your books, reading position, highlights and shelves the same on your Mac, iPhone and iPad with iCloud Sync.

Choose whether BookShelves keeps every book on your device or only the ones you're reading, keep chosen books and shelves available offline, and back up your library.

Browse, search and download free public domain books from the catalogs built into BookShelves.

Connect BookShelves to a Calibre content server, Calibre-Web or any other OPDS catalog, then browse it and import books.

BookShelves on the Mac can stand in for Calibre, so KOReader connects to it over Wi-Fi and you send books straight from your library.

Turn on the built-in web server in BookShelves for Mac so e-readers, KOReader and browsers on your network can browse and download your books.

Send a book from BookShelves to your Kindle or another e-reader by email, using your own email account.

What the import messages in BookShelves mean, and what to do when a book won't import.

What to check when a book, your reading position or a highlight doesn't show up on your other devices.

BookShelves won't load an http:// OPDS feed from a public server, on Mac, iPhone or iPad. Here's why, and how to connect to your self-hosted catalog anyway.

Every ebook and comic book format BookShelves can open on Mac, iPhone and iPad: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, TXT, Markdown, CBZ, CBR, CB7 and more.

Keyboard shortcuts for the library and the book, PDF and comic readers in BookShelves for Mac, and on iPad with a keyboard.

Pricing, formats, accounts and privacy.

Longer walkthroughs, such as reading a Calibre library on iPhone or using BookShelves with KOReader.

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