Learn how to change the appearance of your bookshelves to match your brand
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Overview
Flipsnack’s bookshelf customization options let you transform a basic collection of flipbooks into a branded, user-friendly display. By editing the shelf’s name, background, color scheme, and more, you can ensure it aligns with your organization’s style and enhances the reader experience.
Key benefits:
- Branded display: Customize your bookshelf’s name, logo, and colors to align with your brand identity.
- Consistent branding across Flipsnack assets: Ensure uniform branding across bookshelves, flipbooks, and embedded content.
- Enhanced reader experience: adjust backgrounds, thumbnail sizes, and search functionality for easy navigation.
- Better engagement: a visually appealing bookshelf encourages readers to explore more content.
Requirements:
- Plan: Available for Business and Enterprise plan.
- Target audience: Freelancers, Small and Medium Businesses, Enterprises
Accessing the customize settings
After you’ve created a bookshelf, you’ll land on its Details page. From there:
- Locate the Customize tab in the left-side menu.
- Click Customize to open the bookshelf customization panel.
Customization options
Bookshelf name
- Rename Your Shelf: enter a meaningful title that helps readers quickly identify the theme or content of this shelf.
Logo (Business Plan or up)
- Upload Your Brand Logo
- Click Upload logo and select an image from your computer.
- (Optional) Add a URL in the Add a link to your logo field to make it clickable.
- Change or Remove
- Click Replace logo to swap in a new image, or click the trash icon to remove it entirely.
Background options
- Transparent: perfect for embedding on a website where you want the shelf to blend seamlessly with the page.
- Solid Color: select from team or brand colors, default colors, or input a HEX code for a custom shade.
- Image: upload a background image and choose scale-crop, center, or tile to determine how it fills the shelf’s space.
Bookshelf color
- Choose from a palette: use the brand colors, default options, or a custom HEX code.
- Different from background: if desired, pick one color for the background and another for the shelf itself to create contrast.
Thumbnail size
- Adjust width: drag or type a value between 75px and 300px to change how large each flipbook thumbnail appears.
Open flipbook in a new tab
- Enable if you want each flipbook to open in a separate browser tab, allowing readers to keep the shelf open.
Allow searching in bookshelf
- Let readers quickly locate a specific flipbook by keyword or title within the shelf.
Show flipbook name on hover
- When enabled, mousing over a flipbook thumbnail reveals its name—helping readers identify publications faster.
View live
- Click View live under the shelf preview to see how your bookshelf will appear to readers.
Edit (return to shelf editing)
- Revisits the Organize area where you can add/remove flipbooks or change their order.
Custom URL
- Adjust the final part of the bookshelf URL to make it more memorable or branded (e.g., yourcompany.com/bookshelf-name).
Preserve settings
Once you’re happy with your design:
- Check Preserve settings at the bottom of the panel.
- Click Save changes.
Your customization choices will then apply automatically to future publications you add to this shelf (or any newly created shelves, if you choose the same settings).
Next steps
Ready to take the next steps? Explore our other detailed guides:
- Bookshelf design and functionality
- Branding and customization options
- How to add your brand kit (fonts, colors, logo, typography) in Flipsnack
- How do I change my flipbook appearance?