LuceVoce

Browse and organise your library

How the LuceVoce library shows your books in a grid, a list or by series, how to sort and file them in folders, and how to reopen recent books.

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The library holds every book, document and audiobook you add, each with its cover, its progress and the place where you stopped. Select a book to open it where you left off.

Add books

  • Select Add to pick files. The arrow beside it has more ways: Documents…, From a web address…, From the clipboard, Scan a folder or drive… (on iPhone and iPad, Scan a folder…) and importing notes.
  • On Windows and Mac you can also drop files on the window.
  • Free books in the rail finds free books and audiobooks to download. See Get free books and audiobooks.

Windows

Press Ctrl+O to add documents.

Mac

Choose File > Add to Library… or press ⌘+O.

iPhone and iPad

Tap Add to pick files in the Files app, or share a file from another app and choose LuceVoce in the Share sheet. Books you put in the Books folder of LuceVoce in the Files app (On My iPhone or On My iPad > LuceVoce > Books) are added on their own.

Move around the library

The rail on the left (on an iPhone, the tabs along the bottom, with Browse for the rest) has:

  • All books, Reading now, To read, Finished and Recently added (the last 30 days), each with a count.
  • Reading List: articles you saved from the web, and anything else you want to read soon. See Save web articles and use the Reading List.
  • Queue: books that will be read one after another. See Line up books to read next.
  • Audiobooks, once you have some, and Missing files, when a linked book's file has moved.
  • Notes, every note from every book.
  • Free books, to find free books to download.
  • Under Browse: Authors, Series, Tags, Languages, Formats and Publishers. Open one to see its values with their counts.
  • Smart shelves, your saved searches. See Search your library.
  • Folders, which you make yourself.

Choose a view

Use the three view buttons at the top:

  • Grid view: covers with the title, the author and a progress ring.
  • List view: one row per book. Select Columns to choose what shows: Author, Series, Format, Progress, Status, Rating, Tags, Added, Opened, Language, Pages and Publisher. Select a column heading to sort by it.
  • Series view: one shelf per series in reading order, each book marked "Book 2 of 5", with books outside a series at the end.

Each part of the library remembers its own view and sort.

Sort your books

  1. Select Sort.
  2. Choose a field under Sort by: Title, Author, Series, Date added, Last opened, Progress, Rating, Published, Publisher, Language, Format, Status or Pages.
  3. Select the order button to switch between A to Z and Z to A, or oldest and newest first.
  4. Select Add a level to sort ties by a second and third field. Remove this level takes one away; Default order goes back to the start.

Titles sort without their leading article, so "The Hobbit" sorts under H.

File books in folders

  1. Next to Folders in the rail, select New folder, type a name and press Enter.
  2. On a book, select the More button (three dots), choose Move to folder, then pick the folder.

A folder's More button offers Rename, New folder inside and Delete. Deleting a folder moves its books to the top level; no book is removed.

Use a book's menu

The More button on a book offers:

  • Open
  • Edit information… See Edit book details and covers.
  • Mark as: To read, Reading, Finished or Automatic.
  • Change cover…
  • Play next and Add to queue. See Line up books to read next.
  • Add to Reading List, or Mark as read for a book that is on it.
  • More books: more by the same author, in the same series or on the same subject. See Search the web and find more books.
  • Find file, for a book read from where its file is.
  • Rename, Move to folder and Export notes…
  • Share with my other devices, when you share books through sync.
  • Remove: takes the book out of the library. Your original file is not touched.

Select several books at once with Select at the top of the library to tag, move or edit them together.

Reopen a recent book

  • Reading now lists the books you are reading, the most recently opened first.
  • In any view, sort by Last opened.

Windows

Right-click LuceVoce on the taskbar. The jump list shows up to 8 recent documents under Recent, and a Read clipboard task that reads the text on the clipboard aloud.

Mac

Control-click or right-click LuceVoce in the Dock. The menu lists up to 8 recent books, then Play/Pause and Read Clipboard.

iPhone and iPad

Press and hold LuceVoce's icon on the Home screen. It shows the three books you opened last, newest first, and Read Clipboard. A book opens at your place, without starting to read.

Good to know

  • A book added with Add is copied into the library, so moving or deleting the original later loses nothing. LuceVoce never moves or deletes your files.
  • Books found by a scan or a watched folder can stay where they are instead. See Scan a folder for books.
  • Long books reopen almost at once: LuceVoce keeps a ready-to-read copy.

Related

  • Add your first bookHow to add books, documents and audiobooks to your LuceVoce library with the Add button, drag and drop, or by opening a file from another app.
  • Search your library and save smart shelvesHow to search every book's title and text from the library, narrow results with author:, tag: and other filters, and save a search as a smart shelf.
  • Edit book details and coversHow 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.
  • Get free books and audiobooksHow to find and download free books and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, Wikisource and more inside LuceVoce, and browse Gutenberg's catalogue.
  • Save web articles and use the Reading ListHow to save an article from a web address or add copied text to LuceVoce, and use the Reading List and Mark as read to keep track of what to read next.
  • Line up books to read nextHow to use Play next and Add to queue so LuceVoce starts the next book by itself when one ends, and how to reorder or clear the Queue view.
  • Scan a folder for books and watch itHow to add every book in a folder or drive in one go, choose whether to copy them or read them where they are, and watch folders for new books.
  • Fix a book whose file is missingWhat it means when a book in your library shows File missing, and how to use Find file to show LuceVoce where the book's file is now.

Last updated 13 November 2026