How to organize books with categories and collections

Keep your book club picks together, group books by genre or make a list for your next trip. Categories and Collections give you room to organize books your way, alongside the lists Bookrise keeps for you and your series.

A book can belong to as many categories, collections and series as you like.

The lists Bookrise keeps for you

On the Books tab, the Library section gives you a few ready-made ways to browse:

• All Books
• Want to Read, Reading, Finished and Abandoned, based on each book’s reading status
• Favorites, for books you’ve added to favorites
• Owned, for books whose Ownership Status is Owned

To keep a favorite close, touch and hold a book in a book list and choose Add to favorites. It appears in Favorites. To remove it from that list, touch and hold it again and choose Remove from favorites.

Use the search field in a book list to find a title or author, or tap Sort to change the order.

Choose categories or collections

Both let you group books. Here’s one way to use them:

• Categories work well for genres and topics, such as Classics, Science Fiction or Philosophy. Bookrise may suggest categories when you add a book from search. They’re also used in Top Categories in Insights.
• Collections are useful for lists with a purpose, such as Book Club, Weekend Reads or Gifts for Mom.

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Create a category or collection

1. Open the Books tab and scroll to Categories or Collections.
2. Tap Create Category or Create Collection. You can also tap View All and then +.
3. Type a name and tap OK.

Add a book to categories and collections

When adding or editing a book:

1. Scroll to Categories and tap Book’s Categories, or to Collections and tap Book’s Collections.
2. Select the groups you want. You can also create a new one at the top of the list.
3. Tap the checkmark, then save the book.

For a book already in your library, you can also open its page and tap Edit Categories or Edit Collections.

Add many books at once

1. Open the category or collection.
2. Tap the ⋯ button in the top corner and choose Edit Books.
3. Tap the circle next to a book to include it. Tap a checked circle to remove the book from this group.
4. Tap the checkmark to save.

Use the search field at the bottom to find books by title or author. Removing a book from a category or collection keeps it in your library.

Rename or delete a category or collection

1. Open the category or collection and tap ⋯.
2. Choose Edit Category or Edit Collection to change its name, or Delete Category or Delete Collection to remove the group.

You can also touch and hold a category or collection in its list to find the same options. Deleting a group keeps all of its books in your library.

Browse by author

Looking for more books by the same writer? Scroll to Authors on the Books tab and tap View All. Each author has a book count beside their name. Tap a name to see their books in your library.

Bookrise builds the author list from your books, so you don’t need to create it yourself.

Group books by shelf or room

To remember where a book sits at home, create a collection for its shelf or room, such as “Living Room Shelf”. Bookrise doesn’t have a separate shelf-location field.