Organizing Your Library
Updated: November 7,
2002
Microsoft Reader's Library acts as your "home page" — an organized
location for your eBook library.
The Library
Viewing eBooks in the Library
Getting eBooks on Your PC
Removing eBooks from Your PC
The Library
The Library displays a list of all the eBooks that are stored
in the My Library folder inside the My Documents folder on your PC.
To go to the Library
From a non-eBook page
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Click Library on the Navigation menu along the left side of the page.
From an eBook page
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Click the eBook's title in the Header at the top of the page.
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Click Library on the pop-up menu.
To open an eBook
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Click the eBook's title or thumbnail cover image on the Library page.
Note: If you right-click the eBook's title or thumbnail image, you can
use the pop-up menu choices to go to the most recent page read, delete the eBook,
or see further information about it.
If you try to open an eBook from a location other than My Library, for example
by double-clicking on an eBook file or icon, you'll see a menu of choices for
opening the eBook.
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Click Move this eBook into your library? to move the eBook file from
its present location to My Library.
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Click Copy this eBook into your library? to make a copy of the eBook
and move the copy to My Library.
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Click Open this eBook from its current location? to open the eBook
without moving or copying it.
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Viewing eBooks in your Library
The Library displays a list of all eBooks in Microsoft Reader format that are
stored in the My Library folder on your PC. If you have many eBooks stored
on your PC, the list may extend over multiple pages. You can move forward and
backward through the list of eBooks by turning pages as you would in an eBook.
If there is more than one page of eBooks in your Library, click the page number
to turn pages and see more eBooks.
To change the way titles are displayed in the Library
From the Library
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Click Sort in the upper left area of the Library page
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Click an option in the pop-up menu to display the eBook titles in the order
you want them.
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By Title displays the titles in alphabetical order.
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By Author displays the titles with the authors' names in alphabetical
order.
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By Last Read displays the most recently opened eBook first, the
next most recently next, and so on.
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By Book Size displays the smallest eBook first, the largest last.
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By Date Acquired displays the most recently downloaded title first.
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Adding eBooks to your PC
Microsoft Reader automatically adds a folder to the My Documents folder on
your hard drive, called My Library, when you install the software. When you
purchase an eBook and move it to your folder, it will be listed in your Microsoft
Reader Library.
To download eBook files from the Web
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Go to your favorite online eBook retailer and follow their instructions
to download the eBook files to your desktop computer.
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Be sure that any eBook files you place on your machine appear in the
My
Library
folder inside the My Documents folder. Any eBook that appears
in the My Library folder will appear inside Microsoft Reader on the Library
page.
Note: The location of the folder that holds your Microsoft Reader eBooks
(.lit files) can be changed by using Windows Explorer to move the folder. The
next time you open Microsoft Reader you will be prompted to browse to the folder's
new location. From then on, Microsoft Reader will automatically use that folder.
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Removing eBooks from your PC
From the Library
- Right-click the eBook title.
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Click Delete on the pop-up menu.
The eBook will be deleted from your library.
Note: eBooks that are deleted from your Microsoft Reader library will
be sent to the Recycle Bin on your Windows desktop.
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