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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 My Books, or open a book page from any page.
  2. Tap the tag icon on a book row on the My Books 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. In Manage Tags, tap New tag, enter a name, optionally tap Change to pick a color, then tap Create

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

Removing Tags from Books

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  1. In My Books, 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 My Books
  2. Tap Filters
  3. Select one or more tags — books carrying any of the selected tags appear
  4. Tap Apply

You can combine tag filters with categories, reading status, ownership, and the other filters to narrow the list. Your tags are also available as a filter on the Browse page and inside any library you belong to — tap Filters there too.

Deleting Unused Tags

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  1. Open Manage Tags… (from the My Books tag picker or a book’s tag control).
  2. Find the tag in Your Tags.
  3. Tap the ⋯ menu on the tag row, choose Delete, and confirm.
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Still Need Help?

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If you have questions about using tags, contact support.