Reorganize your shelves with ease. Learn how to move individual titles or entire reading stacks between collections without losing your bookmarks, notes, or reading progress.
Why Move Books Between Shelves?
Reading priorities change constantly. A book that started on your *To Read* shelf might move into *Current Research* during a study term, and eventually settle on a *Favorites* or *Archived* shelf once completed.
In GemReader, moving a book is quick, tactile, and completely safe. When you transfer a title to another folder, all of your personal bookmarks, highlights, reading progress, and attached notes remain perfectly intact.
What You'll Need
To move books between shelves, ensure you have:
• **Platforms**: GemReader installed on Android or iOS. • **Prerequisites**: At least one book imported and at least one destination collection created.
Step-by-Step Instructions
1. Open your **Library** and locate the book you wish to move. 2. Touch and hold the book cover, or tap the **⋮** three-dot menu icon on its card. 3. In the action sheet that appears, tap **Move to collection** (represented by a folder-move icon). 4. A collection picker sheet will slide up displaying all your existing shelves and nested subfolders. 5. Tap the name of your target collection. 6. The book transfers immediately to your chosen shelf, confirmed with a gentle update.
Helpful Tips & Common Questions (Librarian's Advice)
• **Creating Shelves on the Fly**: If you haven't created your destination collection yet, you can type a title into the **New collection** field directly at the bottom of the picker sheet and tap add. • **Returning to the Root Shelf**: To remove a book from a collection and place it back on your main library floor, open the picker and select **Home Library**. • **Preserved Notes & Flashcards**: Moving a title never resets its reading percentage or unbinds your flashcard reviews—everything stays linked to your reading history.
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