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Using Tags

Tags are your own personal labels on books in your collection — short, custom strings that only you see. Use them for anything that’s useful to you: tracking reading, remembering where a book came from, or grouping books for your own purposes.

Tags are different from categories (assigned automatically by Agathos Books) and collections (curated by library admins inside their library). For a quick comparison, see How books are organized.

How Tags Work

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Tags are short labels you create and assign to your own books. They can be anything meaningful to you:

  • “read-in-2024”
  • “book-club”
  • “gift-from-grandma”
  • “vacation-read”
  • “to-donate”
  • “signed-copy”

Tags are personal — other people don’t see your tags, and they don’t appear on the books you’ve shared with a library.

Adding Tags to a Book

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  1. Go to Collection, or open a book page from any page.
  2. Tap the tag icon on a book row in the Collection page, or the Tag icon button on the book page
  3. Tap Manage Tags… to create/edit your tags, or select the tags you want to assign to that book
  4. Under Create New Tag, enter a name, pick an optional color, and tap the + button

You can add as many tags as you like to each book.

Removing Tags from Books

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  1. On Collection, tap the tag icon on the book row — or tap the tag icon from the book page
  2. Unselect a checkbox to remove that tag from that book.

On the book page, applied tags also appear next to the Tag button; tap the tag to remove it from that book.

Filtering by Tags

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To find books with a specific tag:

  1. Go to Collection
  2. Tap Filter
  3. Select one or more tags
  4. Tap Apply

You can combine tag filters with categories and other filters for precise searches.

Deleting Unused Tags

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  1. Open Manage Tags… (from Collection tag picker or a book’s tag control).
  2. Find the tag in Your Tags.
  3. Tap the trash icon and confirm.
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Still Need Help?

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If you have questions about using tags, contact support.