Your libraries

The books on your phone, in your clouds, on your servers and on Telegram, each in its own library, and how to switch between them.

In Kevra you don't have just one library: you have one for every place where you keep books. You reach all of them from the Library tab.

Which libraries you can have

On this device: the books downloaded to this phone or tablet. This is the one you see first.
Ex libris: the library you fill yourself, by marking books from the others as yours. More in Ex libris.
Magazines: the magazines from all your clouds together, like a newsstand. It only shows up if you have some.
Your clouds: Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box and Cloudflare R2.
Telegram: a private channel of yours turned into a library.
Your home servers: Calibre, Kavita, Komga, Nextcloud, Jellyfin…
Audiobookshelf: your audiobook server.
Libraries that other people share with you.

Switching libraries

Open the Library tab.
Tap the name at the top (underneath it says On this device, or the name of the library you're in). You can also pull it down.
Your libraries opens: each library is a card with its color, how many books it has and a few covers.
Tap the one you want to open it.

Kevra remembers the last library you viewed, even after you close the app.

Adding a new library

In Your libraries, tap Add a library at the very bottom. You'll land on Remote library; tap Add a library and choose what to connect.

You can also get there from Add a book → Your own storage.

Renaming, sharing or managing

In Your libraries, open the three dots on a card (or long-press it) to Rename it, Share library or Manage your libraries. Handy if you connect two accounts of the same service, say "Home Dropbox" and "Work Dropbox".

Home and Library don't show the same thing

Home shows the books in your account, whether or not they're on this device, so you can pick up what you started elsewhere. Library → On this device only shows the files that are here. It's not a bug if they don't match.

Which plan you need

Plus plan: clouds (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, R2) and Telegram need the Plus plan. Sharing a library is a Pro feature. More in Plans.

Reading the books on your device and free books doesn't need any plan.