Edit book details and covers

How to change a book's title, authors, series, tags, language and other details, look them up online if you wish, edit several books, and change a cover.

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iPad

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iPhone

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LuceVoce fills in each book's details for you. You can correct any of them, one book at a time or many at once, and your changes are kept.

Where the details come from

When you add a book, LuceVoce reads:

• the details stored in the file itself, such as the title, authors and cover of an EPUB
• an ISBN or DOI found in the first and last pages
• file names written as "Author - Title"

Edit one book

1. On the book, select the More button (three dots) and choose Edit information…
2. Change any of these fields in Book information:
   • Title, and Sort title as if the automatic sort title is wrong.
   • Authors: separate several authors with &. Sort authors as sets how they sort, such as "Austen, Jane".
   • Series and its Number.
   • Tags: separate with commas; a dot nests a tag, such as fiction.classics.
   • Rating (stars) and Reading status: Automatic (follows the progress), To read, Reading or Finished.
   • Language (such as en, fr, ro), Published (such as 1813 or 1813-01-28), Pages and Publisher.
   • Identifiers: one per line, such as isbn:9780141439518 or doi:10.1000/182.
   • Description.
3. Select Save. "Book information saved" confirms it.

A book needs a title: an empty title is refused and the book keeps the one it had.

The dialog also shows the book's File: "Kept in the library.", or where the book is read from, and any other formats of the same book that are kept.

The Language matters more than it seems: it decides which voice reads the book and how its sentences and numbers are read.

Look up a book's details online

If you like, LuceVoce can look up a book's details for you. It is off until you turn it on.

1. Open Settings > Library and, under Book information, turn on Look up book information online.
2. On a book, or on several selected books, choose Find book information….
3. LuceVoce shows what it found next to what you have, field by field. Choose what to keep and select Apply.

LuceVoce asks Open Library, Wikidata, the national library of France and CrossRef. It sends only the title, the first author and the ISBN.

Edit several books at once

1. Select Select at the top of the library.
2. Select the books you want, or Select all. Clear unselects them.
3. Select Edit information…
4. Fill in only what you want to change: Authors, Series, Add tags, Remove tags, Reading status, Rating, Language or Publisher. Fields left empty stay as they are in every book.
5. Select Save, then Done to leave selection.

To only change the reading status of the selected books, use Mark as instead.

Change or remove a cover

Covers come from the book itself: an EPUB's cover, the first page of a PDF, or the art inside an audiobook.

1. On the book, select the More button and choose Change cover…, or select Change cover… in Book information.
2. Pick an image file.

To go back to no cover, open Book information and select Remove cover.

Good to know

• Every field you edit is kept as your own: adding the book again later never overwrites it.
• Editing the book you have open changes its title in the reading view too.
• Rename in a book's menu changes just the title, right on the card.

Last updated 13 November 2026