Here is a quick tour of a catalog on Edelweiss.

Catalogs load in their entirety, but you’ll see 50 titles at a time. Page turns happen quickly. This also means that, since all the titles are there and immediately available, sorting, filtering, and jumping to titles happens instantly. You can open a drawer of filtering options via the Filter button at the top of a catalog.

Sorting options for your view can also be found at the top of the page:

A title listing in a catalog shows, by default, key bibliographic data as well as information on the number of reviews and average rating for the title (the orange numeric badges under the jacket cover). Click on the title’s average rating (left) and number of reviews (right) to explore the reviews!

To dive deeper into a title, you have the option of expanding content like title summary, contributor bios, marketing plans, comps, images, and more. Display desired elements of content by clicking on the triangle icons beside each content type:

The content will open, accordion-style, beneath the title listing. You can adjust your default settings via the Preferences button at the top of a catalog to set these sections to be automatically visible (or not!).

For those of us who might not see small print as well as we used to, you can click on the eyeglass icon within any section of title information to pull up a screen where text can be enlarged as needed. Tip: Enlarge a book cover by clicking on it!

On the left-hand sidebar of a title listing, you’ll also see various available actions such as Tags, Add to…, Note, and Review:

Many useful actions are nestled under Add to…

Additional tools (PDF creation, exporting to file, emailing a title, copying a title link, and more) are available via the Actions button.

Clicking the icon to the right of the name of a title will open Presentation Mode, which will show all available information for that one particular title. Select the arrows to navigate forward and backward between other titles in the catalog within this view.

To exit the title detail page, simply click the ‘x’ icon or anywhere outside of that window.

For times in which you may want to browse through a catalog or list of titles a little more quickly, you have the option of a Two Column View. The Two Column View is more simplified and streamlined to help you fly through a list of titles. Markups must be done in Full View!