Tailor your wireless transfers. Choose whether to beam clean ebook files to a friend or include your personal study notes, audio tracks, and nested shelf structures.
Why Customize Your Transfer?
Sharing a book with a friend or colleague is different from migrating your entire reading life to a brand new tablet. When recommending a novel to a fellow reader, you might want to share a pristine copy of the text without exposing your private annotations and margin commentary.
Conversely, when moving between your own personal devices, you likely want every single note, audio companion track, and carefully organized folder structure preserved. Gem Beam gives you granular control over exactly what data leaves your device before generating a transfer code.
What You'll Need
To customize a transfer payload, ensure you have:
• **Platforms**: GemReader running on sending and receiving devices. • **Network**: Both devices connected to the same local Wi-Fi or mobile hotspot. • **Content**: At least one book selected or an open collection on your shelf.
Step-by-Step Instructions
1. In your **Library**, select the collection you wish to share, tap the **⋮** menu, and choose **Gem Beam** (or select several individual books using multi-select mode). 2. On the transfer setup screen, examine the transfer customization switches: - **Include Books**: Transfers the core EPUB, PDF, or comic files. - **Include Notes & Highlights**: Shares all 6-color highlights, personal notes, and bookmarks attached to the selected titles. - **Include Chapter Audio**: Bundles any companion audio tracks (.mp3, .m4a) attached to the books. - **Preserve Folder Structure**: Recreates your nested collection hierarchy on the recipient's shelf. 3. Toggle each switch according to your needs. For example, turn off **Notes & Highlights** to send a clean copy to a friend. 4. Tap **Generate Beam Code** to package your selected components into a secure pairing QR code. 5. Scan the QR code with the receiving device to complete the tailored transfer.
Helpful Tips & Common Questions (Librarian's Advice)
• **Smart Interface Adaptation**: If the books you are sharing have no attached audio tracks or notes, GemReader cleanly greys out those options, so you never have to wonder what is included. • **Non-Destructive Sharing**: Beaming books to another device never moves or removes files from your sending device; your original collection, notes, and audio attachments remain completely intact. • **Receiving Clean Copies**: When a friend receives a book sent without notes, the incoming title arrives on their shelf as a fresh, clean edition ready for their own personal annotations.
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