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How to Add or Delete A Book

You can easily delete a book from the Chapterly app and restore it from the trash if you change your mind.

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Written by Christi
Updated over a week ago

Starting or Adding a New Book

To add a new book to your Writing Studio, please click on the Library tab of the dashboard. At the top right corner of the page, click on the “New Book” icon. The menu will drop down, and then you can choose, “New Book” or “Import Book.” Click on New Book if you want to start with a blank page or Import Book if you’ve already started your book somewhere else and wish to upload it.

A new book will populate and will open up on the first chapter page.

The new book will be visible in the left-hand navigation pane, and clicking on it will open the title page. There, you can edit the book title, subtitle, author, description, genre, book category, summary, and ISBN. When you enter information on the title page, it is automatically saved for you.

To view the book contents, you can click on the dropdown arrows next to each subheading to open them. If you prefer to filter out certain elements (such as Characters or Locations), you can click the middle icon next to ‘Library,’ which looks like a triangle of lines.

Deleting a Book

You can delete a book from the title page. To access the title page, you can click on the settings gear from your dashboard or on the title of the book within your Library panel.

Once you access the title page, you can access the Delete Book button at the bottom of the page.

When you click on the Delete Book button, you'll receive a message to confirm that you want to delete the book.

Once the book is deleted, you can either delete it forever or restore it from the trash. Click on the trash button to view the deleted book.

If you decide to delete the book permanently, you will get a message to confirm the deletion.

Once the book has been deleted from the trash it cannot be restored.

Happy Writing!

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