Create and manage bookshelves as professional content collections

Learn how to organize your flipbooks into personalized collections called bookshelves

• Overview
• Benefits
• Create your first bookshelf
• Access more bookshelf settings
  • Details
  • Customize
  • Embed
  • Statistics
  • Send email
  • Download QR code
• Management features
  • Duplicating Bookshelves
  • Content Management
  • Deleting your Bookshelf
• Troubleshooting tips
• Next steps

Overview

Bookshelves in Flipsnack allow organizations to create customized collections of digital publications, making it easier to organize and share multiple flipbooks in a professional, branded format. This guide will help you understand how to create, customize, and manage bookshelves effectively for your business needs.

Benefits

Digital library management: Store and organize all your publications in one professional, branded space.

Simplified sharing: Share multiple publications privately with a single link or embed them on your website.

Professional reading experience: Provide customers and partners with a smooth, consistent way to browse your content.

Performance analytics: Track engagement metrics for each publication in your collection to optimize content strategy.

Requirements

• A published or unlisted flipbook in your Flipsnack account
• Professional plan or higher for bookshelf and statistics access
• Business plan or higher for branding customization
• Intended for workspace owners and editors

Create your first bookshelf

Watch this video for a quick, step-by-step guide on how to add, organize, and personalize your bookshelves, including tips on selecting colors and embedding them on your website.

Step by step guide

1. Go to the main dashboard and click the Create button in the top-right corner
2. Select Bookshelf from the dropdown menu:

 

3. Select from your published flipbooks each flipbook you want to include

 

 

4. Click "Next step" to organize your publications

5. Arrange flipbooks in your preferred order by dragging and dropping
6. Click "Share now"

7. In the publishing modal:

• • Add a title for your bookshelf
  • Write a description
  • Choose visibility (public or unlisted)
  • Click "Publish now"

 

Here's what an embedded bookshelf looks like: 

Looks super clean, right? See how it looks as a full-view link bookshelf, too. 

Access more bookshelf settings

Once created, the Details page of your bookshelf pops up. This area is where you can personalize, share and track your bookshelf with many available options to access: customize, embed, statistics, send email, download QR code. Let’s take them one by one and see what settings you have.

1. Details

You can always access the Bookshelf Details page in the main dashboard by hovering your mouse over the shelf card. 

Share your bookshelf directly on different social media platforms or via email. You can also copy the link to the bookshelf and share it directly with your audience. Think of these Details settings as the main navigation window for a particular bookshelf you created.

2. Customize your bookshelf

This area represents the bookshelf customization settings. Here, you can rename your bookshelf, change colors, set thumbnail sizes, and more. Here is what each of them does.

• Bookshelf name: here’s where you can change the bookshelf name.
• Logo: if you have a Business plan or up, here you’ll be able to add your logo to the bookshelf to increase brand identity. Click on Upload logo, select the desired image, and click the Add logo button. You can also add a link to your logo by typing the URL in the Add a link to your logo field. If you want to change the logo, you can do this anytime by clicking on Replace logo or, if you want to delete it, click on the trash icon.
• Background: if you want a background for your bookshelf, you can choose between transparent, solid color, or an image for your bookshelf background. If you select a solid color you can either choose a team color that’s already been uploaded, a default color from the pallet, or HEX codes. If you want a background image, you can upload one from your computer and then choose between scale-crop, center, or tile positioning. A transparent background comes in handy if you want to embed the bookshelf on a website.
• Bookshelf color: you can also choose a color from a pallet or based on a HEX code for the bookshelf itself. If you have two team or brand colors you like to use, you can choose one for the background and the other for the bookshelf.
• Set thumbnail size: the thumbnail size can be adjusted between 75px and 300px in width.
• Open flipbook in a new tab: check this option if you want your flipbooks to open in new tabs.
• Allow searching in bookshelf: toggle the Allow searching in your bookshelf option, and your readers will quickly find their desired publication.
• Show flipbook name on mouse hover: toggle the Show flipbook name on hover options, and your readers will be able to browse your bookshelf easily with their mouse to see the publication's name.
• View live: this option, also beneath the preview, gives you the full-screen preview of your bookshelf.
• Edit: this option is also under the preview, and here you can go back to editing the bookshelf.
• Edit link name: this option is under the preview and allows you to edit the last part of the bookshelf's URL. 

Once you're happy with the changes you’ve made, simply click on the Save changes button, above the bookshelf preview. 

3. Embed

To embed your bookshelf on your website, click on the Embed option in the same Details page, left-side panel. Here is where you can customize the embed size, copy the embed code, and enable the domain restriction option. This will prevent people from embedding your flipbook on any other website than the ones specified, which need to be added separately through the Add new link option. 

4. Statistics

In this next option, you can check individual bookshelf statistics, starting with a summary of impressions, views, and average time spent. For more granular data, check insights from the flipbooks within, devices and sources, or global views by top location.

5. Send email

Distribute your bookshelf via a fully branded email. Customize your email, add company logo, title, description, label (desired CTA text), and background plus accent color.

Alternatively, you can send it using your email client and use code to embed the bookshelf snippet into your email newsletter, perhaps, like we mentioned in the Embed section of the Details page.

6. Download bookshefs' QR code

Generate a personalized QR code for your bookshelf, download it in different formats and share it with your readers. This QR code can also be branded with your logo.

Management Features

Duplicating Bookshelves

Create copies to:

• Track engagement for different audience segments
• Customize collections for specific teams or departments
• Maintain different versions for various campaigns

Content Management

• Remove or add publications at any time
• Reorder content as needed
• Update visibility settings
• Manage access permissions

Deleting your Bookshelf

Deleting your bookshelf will not impact the publications within it or remove them from your account. Each individual publication will remain unchanged.

You can also always leave your own suggestions using the live chat, and our friendly agents will pass them along to the product team. 

Troubleshooting tips

• If unable to customize older bookshelves, republish them through the Edit menu
• For visibility issues, verify individual flipbook settings
• When embedding fails, check domain restriction settings

Next steps

• Consider creating themed collections for different departments
• Set up analytics tracking for your most important bookshelves
• Integrate bookshelves into your website or internal portal

Relevant articles:

• Bookshelf statistics
• Add your bookshelves under your custom domain
• Add teammates to create bookshelves together

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