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Getting Started

Stuck Pending Additions

How to add Readables

How to add Books, Fanfictions, and Webcomics to your Readables.

Creating and Customizing your Tower

How to create shelves, customize wallpapers, favorite readables, and rearrange items.

Need More Help

Mobile App

Data & Technology

Achievements, Coins, & Cosmetics

What are they and how to get them.

Guilds

Why does it take longer to add some Readables?

Stuck Pending Additions

If you have a stuck book, it's probably because we had trouble retrieving information about the book from our data provider. Chances are we're already working with them to get the data. Once they have it, the book will be re-processed automatically.In very rar...

Can I keep adding more Readables if some are stuck?

Stuck Pending Additions

Absolutely! Even if some of your readables are stuck new ones may still be processed automatically. We'll process your stuck readables as soon as possible.

How to add Books to your Readables

How to add Readables

Navigate to your dashboard  Select the ‘Add a Book’ icon on the ‘Books Read’ widget.  Type in the ISBN13 number associated with your book. You can find your ISBN13 code either on the back of your book or on the first few pages with additional ...

How to add a Bookshelf

Creating and Customizing your Tower

Navigate to your dashboard. Scroll to the bottom of your tower.  Select the ‘Add Bookshelf’ button. Enter your desired name and visibility status of your shelf. Select a Room background, Bookshelf top, and Bookshelf backing. Select ...

How to favorite Readables

Creating and Customizing your Tower

Navigate to your dashboard Select the ‘Readables’ option on the Navigation bar. Search for the Readable you wish to favorite.  Open the Readable's details page. Check the 'Favorite' checkbox and update your Readable. Your favorited Rea...

How to rearrange shelves in your Tower

Creating and Customizing your Tower

Navigate to your dashboard. Select the 'Tower’ option on the Navigation bar. Click and hold the room you wish to change the position of. Drag the room to the desired spot in the Tower. Alternatively, you can do this from the dashboard view of you...

How to rearrange Readables on a shelf

Creating and Customizing your Tower

Navigate to the shelf you wish to reorder. Click and hold the Readable you wish to change the position of. Drag the Readable to the desired spot in your shelf 

How to edit existing shelves

Creating and Customizing your Tower

Navigate to the shelf you wish to reorder. Select the 'Update Bookshelf Configuration' button on the right side of the screen. Make the desired edits to your Shelf. Select 'Update Shelf!'

My question isn't answered here

Need More Help

If you need to talk to someone from our team you have three options: Contact us via our live chat by clicking on the icon () in the bottom right corner once you've logged in. Send us an email support@mybooktower.com. Use the link on the Dashboard (or in y...

How to Install on iOS

Mobile App

To install the Booktower PWA: Open the Booktower website on your phone in Safari Login Click the "Share" button at the bottom center of the screen Scroll down and click "Add to Home Screen" Now you can use the app!

How to install on Android

Mobile App

To install the Booktower PWA: Open the Booktower website in Chrome on your Android device Login You should see a banner at the top of the site asking you if you'd like to install the app If not, click the three dots, click "Add to Home Screen," then clic...

Why a PWA (Progressive Web App)?

Mobile App

We want to provide you with the best possible experience as you read your books, fan fictions, and web comics. To support this goal, we've chosen to develop Booktower as a Progressive Web App (PWA) rather than a traditional native app. Here’s why: Greater Cr...

Does Booktower Use AI?

Data & Technology

Booktower does not have any AI-related features and there are no plans to add these features in the future. Since this is a complicated question, we'd like to share some more details about what that means and why we've made this choice: Our team firmly belie...

Achievements

Achievements, Coins, & Cosmetics

Achievements can be earned through various activities on Booktower and they are the primary way that you earn coins. We have several types of achievements: one-time, recurring, event, and secret. One-Time Achievements You can earn one-time achievements by r...

Supported Emojis

Guilds

Guild Threads and Posts support emojis using emoji-codes. Here's a list of all of the default emojis that we support: :+1: 👍:-1: 👎:8ball: 🎱:100: 💯:1234: 🔢:ab: 🆎:abacus: 🧮:abc: 🔤:abcd: 🔡:accept: 🉑:accordion: 🪗:adhesive-bandage: 🩹:admission-tickets: 🎟️:adult: ...

How to add Lots of Physical Books to your Readables via Barcodes

How to add Readables

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 a...

Does Booktower Sell My Data?

Data & Technology

No.  Booktower does not sell your data to anyone for any purpose. We have no intentions of changing this in the future. Booktower is also extremely selective about the limited number of service providers that have access to your data, choosing providers that...

How to add a Digital Readables to your Readables

How to add 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. Navigate to your dashboard Select the ‘Add Digital Readable’ icon on the ‘Fanfictions Read’...

Supported Digital Readable Sources

How to add Readables

Supported Fan Fiction Websites Service Example URLs Archive of Our Own https://archiveofourown.org/works/50704222   https://archiveofourown.gay/works/50704222   https://archiveofourown.org/works/58400401/chapters/148751329   https://arc...