Using Tags
Tags are your own personal labels on books in My Books — 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
Section titled “How Tags Work”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
Section titled “Adding Tags to a Book”- Go to My Books, or open a book page from any page.
- On the My Books page, tap ⋮ on the book’s row (it opens the book’s tags and sharing); on the book page, tap the Tags button (the tag icon). On a phone the tags open in a sheet from the bottom of the screen.
- Tap Manage tags… to create/edit your tags, or check the tags you want to assign to that book
- In Manage Tags, tap New tag, enter a name, optionally tap Change to pick one of six colors, then tap Create. The color shows as a small dot beside the tag’s name.
You can add as many tags as you like to each book. When you’re done, tap Close.
Removing Tags from Books
Section titled “Removing Tags from Books”- In My Books, tap ⋮ on the book’s row — or tap Tags on the book page
- Uncheck a tag to remove it 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
Section titled “Filtering by Tags”To find books with a specific tag:
- Go to My Books
- Tap Filters
- Select one or more tags — books carrying any of the selected tags appear
- 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 in the Library tab, for one library or All my libraries — tap Filters there too.
Deleting Unused Tags
Section titled “Deleting Unused Tags”- Open Manage Tags… (from the My Books tag picker or a book’s tag control).
- Find the tag in Your Tags.
- Tap the ⋯ menu on the tag row, choose Delete, and confirm.
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Section titled “Still Need Help?”If you have questions about using tags, contact support.