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View all the books in a library

You can toggle whose books you see, and how the books are displayed on the screen

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Written by Suewan Kemp
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Once you've created a library, use the Authors button to see who else is in the library, view their books, or view all books.

You'll see this toggle switch in the top centre of your screen. You can view the authors in your library by clicking on the toggle on the right:

The screenshot shows three icons in the navigation bar of Book Creator, above the text "Add students to library". The icons are a book for Library View, two people for Authors View, and a document with a pen for Class View.

Once you've clicked on that toggle, you'll be taken to the author picker page where you can see all the authors in your library and all the books they've created.
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A screenshot from Authors View, showing a table listing all the authors in the library and their books.

You can also use Class View for a overview of all pages and books in the library.

View books for individual students

If you want to see the books created by a particular student then click on their name and you'll be shown all the books that the student has created.
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A screenshot showing only the books for a selected student.

πŸ‘‰ Check out this video on viewing individual student's books:

What if I don't want students to see each other's books?

First bear in mind that all books in the library will be read-only (unless you're the library owner). Students won't be able to edit each other's books unless they've turned on collaboration for their book.

As the owner of the library, you can access the Library settings to toggle on/off whether or not students can see each other's books. This is Off as default for libraries created after Oct 2025.

When Read each other's books is On for the library, students will be able to toggle on/off whether they see other students books or not.

A screenshot demonstrating that you can toggle on/off "Show everyone's books" by clicking on the library name.

When Read each other's books is Off for the library, students will not see this toggle, and they will only be able to view their own and the library owner's books.

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