Beta. Books & Shelves is not released yet. These pages describe the build in progress.
Build shelves
Group related books into shelves, by suggestion or by describing what you want, and find similar books.
A shelf is a note that lists a group of books. Shelves are found by meaning, so they need one vector per book, made through Model Hub.
Make the book vectors
- Open Settings → Books & Shelves → Shelves.
- Under Book vectors, select Embed…. Or run Books & Shelves: Embed books (vectors for shelves and similar books).
Each book's vector is made from its title, authors and a sample of its text. This costs a little through Model Hub; the run shows its cost. If you already have vectors, Import… brings them in as they are.
Let it suggest shelves
- Select Suggest…, or run Books & Shelves: Suggest shelves.
- The library is grouped and each group is named. The suggestions arrive as review notes in
Books/Review. - Accept, rename, split or reject each one.
- Select Apply…, or run Apply shelf suggestions. Accepted suggestions become shelf notes in
Books/Collections.
Describe a shelf
- Make a shelf from a description gathers the books that match what you describe, and a model keeps the ones that belong.
- Split a subject into shelves takes a broad subject and proposes several shelves within it.
Add a book by hand
Run Add a book to this shelf from a shelf, or use the Shelf view: it has search to add a book, and removes one from a shelf in a click.
The Shelf view
Shelves show as cards with covers in the Shelf view, a view for Bases. Existing .base files that used the view keep working.
Find similar books
Run Books & Shelves: Find similar books, or select Find… under Similar books. Each book note gets links to its five nearest books.
All of these can be undone.