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The Collections Tab

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The Collections tab is where you can find and organize all of your books, as well as multiple ways to create new books.

Parts of the Collections Tab​

There are multiple parts of the Collections tab:

  1. Your Collection of Books
  2. Sources for New Books
  3. Book Preview Area
  4. Collection Settings

Your Collection of Books​

In the upper-left corner of the Collections tab, you will see the collection that you currently have open.

This is where you can find and edit the books that you are working on.

  1. At the top, you see the title of this collection.
  2. Underneath the title, you will see the books in this collection.

Sources for New Books​

In the bottom-left corner of the Collections tab, you will see Sources for New Books. This is where you can find new books to create.

There are many different types of books to choose from:

Templates​

Bloom comes with many different kinds of book templates.

You can use these to easily create different kinds of books:

  • Basic Books: These are simpler books with a variety of text and pictures.
  • Big Books: These are especially helpful for classroom settings, because they have big text and big pictures.
  • Decodable/Levels Readers: These help early readers learn to read.
  • Comic Books: Colorful full-page books, with different types of text options (including comic book style speech bubbles).
  • Sign Language Books: Books with text and sign language videos together!
  • And more!

Sample Shell Books​

Bloom also comes with a few sample shell books. These books are ready-to-translate: they already have a full story, complete with pictures and text, which makes it easy to publish in a local language.

Learn more about Shell Books in Bloom.

Books from BloomLibrary.org​

The Bloom Library has thousands of shell books that can be downloaded for free and used to make your own books.

Get More Books From the Bloom Library

If you do not see any books in the Bloom Library section, or you want to download more books to use, click GET MORE SOURCE BOOKS AT BLOOMLIBRARY.ORG.

To learn more about downloading books from Bloom Library, see Download Books from Bloom Library.

Books from Other Collections​

Books from Bloom Packs

If you have installed any Bloom Packs, the books from those Bloom Packs will appear below the Books From BloomLibrary.org section. For example:

  1. Cassie
  2. God is Everywhere

Other Collections on Your Computer

If you have other collections on your computer, you can show books from those collection(s) here.

  1. Click SHOW ANOTHER COLLECTION…

  2. Open the Folder for the Collection that you want to see:

  3. Open the Bloom Collection file for the Collection that you want to see:

  4. The books for that Collection will now be available in the Collections tab (for example: English Books):

Book Preview Area​

The Book Preview area shows a larger version of the book or template that you select.

  1. Click on the picture/title (thumbnail) for any book.
  2. The book will display in the Book Preview Area.
  3. Use the scrollbar on the right-hand side to scroll through the book.

Edit or Make a Book​

If you want to edit a book:

  1. Click on any book in your Collection (upper-left pane).
  2. Click EDIT THIS BOOK.

To create a book using a template, shell book, or Bloom Library book:

  1. Click on any book in the Sources for New Books section
  2. Click MAKE A BOOK USING THIS SOURCE.

Collection Settings​

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See Collection Settings to learn about changing Collection Settings.

Open or Create a Different Collection​

If you want to open or create a different collection, follow these steps:

  1. Click the the Other Collection button:

  2. A window will open with multiple options:

    1. Create New Collection: Click to create a brand new collection (see

    2. Open a different collection: If available, click to open a different collection in Bloom.

    3. Browser for another collection on this computer: Click to search for another collection somewhere else on your computer.