Using the app

These are the guides for people who use the app. Each page answers one concrete question. If you are starting out, read them in this order; if you are looking for something, go straight to it.

Getting started

1. What is Kosmotheka, and what is it not?
2. First steps: install the app and add your first book
3. Add by scanning, by ISBN or by searching for a title

Your catalog

4. Copies, locations and whose each thing is
5. Books, comics, games, films, music: what changes with each kind
6. Your own: to read, reading, read, stars, favorites and “I want it”
7. Series and gaps
8. Several libraries

Sharing and keeping safe

9. Share at home: pair devices over Wi-Fi
10. Backups, export and import

Your data

11. Where the details come from: public catalogs, your own keys and how to turn them off
12. What leaves your device and what does not

People, account and cloud

13. People and permissions: who can do what
14. Remove a person or a device from a library
15. The cloud: your libraries on all your devices
16. Away from home and offline: what works

When something goes wrong

17. I lost my phone or changed it
18. Delete my account and my data
19. Frequently asked questions
20. Error messages and what to do
21. What’s new in each version

On the project’s website

• How it works, the frequently asked questions.
• Downloads, with what is already available.
• Privacy policy, on what leaves your device and what does not.
• Delete your account.

These guides are written from the Spanish app. The names of buttons and screens are the ones the app shows when it is set to English. The screenshots are still from the Spanish app.