Manual

A walkthrough of The Diodati Debtors, in the order you'll actually encounter things — starting with the links on your Dashboard, then the four tabs that hold your books and loans.

Register an account and log in — your Personal Library works right away, with no club required.

Add a Book

Add a book via ISBN lookup, title search (with cover previews), or entirely by hand.

Clubs

Found a club, or browse and request to join an existing one. A club gives every member a shared Common Club Library — every book owned by any of its members.

My Bookmates

Club Members and personal Contacts, side by side. Contacts are people without an account — a neighbour, a family member — who you lend to and manage directly, with no request needed.

Organize

"What needs my attention?" — pending club-join and loan requests to decide on, plus Your Requests: what you've sent, and the status of each.

Communication

Club Feed and Global Board for posts and discussion. Every book also has its own Discussion, Reviews, and Synopsis (written manually, imported from Open Library, or AI-generated).

Ask the Librarian

Describe what you're looking for in your own words — a mood, a theme, a half-remembered detail. The librarian searches your library's meaning, not just its words, and will suggest something from beyond it if nothing fits.

The Dashboard Tabs

Personal Library — your own books, always visible, no club required.

Common Club Library — every book owned by any member of your currently selected club (switch clubs from the dropdown above the tabs).

My Borrowed Books — what you currently have on loan, plus a link to your full Borrow History.

My Lent-Out Books — books you own that are currently out with someone else, plus a link to your Lent-Out History, grouped by book.

Trust Signals

Reliability and Book Care are shown wherever they help you decide who to lend to — always as plain words (Excellent, Good, ...), never as scores or rankings.

Illustrations from Manual of the System of the British and Foreign School Society of London, London, 1816 — the same year as Villa Diodati.