Archive for the ‘Managing the Library’ Category

How to change the cover of a book

- Long press on a book in My books to display the information of the book. – In the book information window, long press on the cover. Then you’ll be able to browse your photos on your device to select which one to use to replace the

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How to edit the meta-data of a book

Some meta-data such as the authors, the publishers, the tags or the collections can be edited from the column on the left of the My books screen, by a long press on the data to edit. For instance if you want to change an author’s name, filter

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How to filter the books shown in the Library

The default filter is by collections. If you press on “Collections” on the top left of the main Library screen, the list of all possible filters appears: Collections Tags Authors Publishers Series Languages Formats Folder When you select an element in one of these lists, all the

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How to add books to a collection

  In the Library main screen, when you are in list view or details view, check the boxes corresponding to the books that you want to add to a certain collection. Then tap on the ¬´Organize¬ª icon in the toolbar (a good idea is to avoid being

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How to create a collection or a sub-collection

  There are two possible ways: In the main Library screen, by pressing the ¬´Plus¬ª icon under My collections in the left column. In the Collections Manager screen, that you access by taping on the ¬´Gear¬ª icon. Then by pressing the ¬´Plus¬ª icon next to My collections

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Shortcut to access a book from the home screen

(this doesn’t apply for Honeycomb devices) Long press on the home screen (a dialog should show up). Tap on Shortcuts. Select Mantano Reader. Choose the book you want to add on the home screen.

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How to find a book or document in the library with the filters

In the Library section, you can display the list of collections, authors, publishers, series, formats, languages, tags or folders by tapping on “Collections” on the top left of the main Library screen, and then on the filter type of your choice in the opened menu. When you

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Searching a book with the search box

You can search a book or document in your Library by typing some words of the title or a part of the author’s name. For this, you tap on the search icon and you enter the words in the search label that opens. The element found will

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Five Views of the Library

The list of your documents can be displayed as a detailed list of items, a simple list of items or as a small, medium or big thumbnails mosaic. You can chose this display setting by tapping on the View icon in the Library toolbar and specifying the

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How to delete books in the Library

In the Library, when you are in “List” view or in “Details” view, you can remove items by selecting them with their related checkbox. Then you tap on the Delete icon and confirm in the opened popup. You can delete the book just in the Library and

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