How to add Readables
How to add Books, Fanfictions, and Webcomics to your Readables.
- How to add Books to your Readables
- How to add Lots of Physical Books to your Readables via Barcodes
- How to add a Digital Readables to your Readables
- Supported Digital Readable Sources
- Import Your Ao3 Work History or Bookmarks
How to add Books to your Readables
Alternatively, if you wish to add several books at once, select the ‘Bulk Mode’ icon in the top right.
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In the bulk mode, enter the ISBN13s of the books you wish to add on separate lines of the text field.
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Select the Status and Date that will be applied to all books entered.
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Select ‘Add them!’ to add them to your Readables list.
Once the books have been added to our system, they will appear in your Readables list! Occasionally, some books require more information and will take longer to appear in your Readables list.
How to add Lots of Physical Books to your Readables via Barcodes
If you have lots of physical books and your books have barcodes you can use a barcode scanner to add them!
While many different barcode scanners may work, the Booktower team has tested with the Tera Barcode Scanner which works on both Windows & Linux and is available for $30 USD at the time of writing this.
Once you have your scanner, you can connect the provided wireless adapter to your computer (for the Terra Scanner the wireless adapter is in the bottom of the handle) and use it to more easily add books via the Bulk Mode.
Just open the bulk mode, make sure to click inside the text field, and scan away! We recommend checking your screen and submitting the list every so often, just in case something goes wrong and your submission doesn't go through.
If you've used another easily purchasable scanner with Booktower and it worked, let us know! We hope to create a list of working scanners on this page.
How to add a Digital Readables to your Readables
Digital Readables are readables that you read via a website or app, like fan fiction or web comics. Click here to see a list of sites that we support.
Alternatively, if you wish to add several Readables at once, select the ‘Bulk Mode’ button in the top right.
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In the bulk mode, enter the URLs of the digital readables you wish to add on separate lines of the text field.
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Select the Status and Date that will be applied to all readables entered.
- Additionally, you can select what bookshelves you would like the readables to display on, favorite status, and cover color for all readables in the bulk upload under the Additional Settings menu.
- Select ‘Add them!’ to add them to your Readables list.
Once the Digital Readbles have been added to our system, they will appear in your Readables list! Occasionally, some readables may take longer to appear in your Readables list. You can continue adding more while you wait.
Supported Digital Readable Sources
Supported Fan Fiction Websites
Supported Web Comic Websites
Supported Web Novel Websites
Service | Example URLs |
Tapas |
https://tapas.io/series/the-villainess-turns-the-hourglass-novel/info
https://m.tapas.io/series/the-villainess-turns-the-hourglass-novel/info |
Wattpad |
Import Your Ao3 Work History or Bookmarks
This Community Guide was created by Rowan, a Booktower Librarian!
We don't provide official support for it but you can ask other readers for help in the Booktower Discord if you get stuck.
Required Tools
- A Computer (not a mobile device/tablet)
- Flamebyrd's AO3 Works List CSV Bookmarklet
- Some spreadsheet software (LibreOffice Calc, Excel, Google Sheets, etc)
Steps
- Install the bookmarklet and add it to your bookmarks bar.
- Make sure you're logged into AO3 and have access to your work history and/or bookmarks.
- Go to your history/bookmarks and click on the bookmark that you added in step 1.
- This will download a spreadsheet of that page's fics.
- You have to do this for each page of your Bookmarks/History.
- This will download a spreadsheet of that page's fics.
- Open each spreadsheet in your spreadsheet software.
- Copy the column that has the links in it.
- Paste the links into Booktower's Bulk Digital Readable form.