Using Help Thing to learn how to print a book list

I'd like to get a hard copy of my books. I went to HelpThing, but could not figure out how to use it.

I typed in "print" in the search box, and also "Print book list" and got no hits, and none of the topics that did come up seemed reasonable.

Am I using Help Thing correctly? Should I have used a different search phrase? Is there another way to find help?

By the way: How DO I print out the list of my books?

Many thanks!

If you go to the "your books" tab, you'll see a header with several icons. On the right you'll see a little printer symbol. That should work.

(It might be a good idea to change your style first though, you can do that too from those icons).

The other way is from the More tab, export your books as a Tab-delimited list (or CSV - but CSV has relatively few fields). Note that neither of the exports has all the fields, and there are some (like Collections) that appear in neither export. But if what you're interested in appears in one or the other, the exports are very handy - you can put them into Excel or Calc and rearrange them however you like.

On the other hand, using a modified style (using the cog next to the letters ABCDE) and printing out your library will give you exactly the fields you want, and you can print a subsection of your library (the exports will export your entire library).

ETA: HelpThing is still a work in progress, and I guess nobody's made a Printing Your Library page yet. It is context-sensitive - if you go to Your Library and click the Help button up in the top right-hand corner, you'll go to a page about 'what you can do in your library', including mention of the Print button. So in general, go where you want to do something and try the Help button and see what it says. And if that doesn't work, come ask here or in Site Talk - people are constantly discovering and re-discovering features on LT, it's got a lot going on!

I'd like to point out that when you click on the little printer symbol mentioned in post 2, what you get is a printer friendly version of your catalog. You then need to use the "print" feature of your browser to actually print it.

Ah, okay. Sorry, it's been a while since I wanted a hard copy....

Thank you

I am not seeing a print icon on my "Your Books" page. Help!!!

Starting at the right, there is search, a space and then a settings button. To the left of that is a group of icons, the right hand one is a printer. (The other two are up and down arrows and lightning.) Do you not see this?

Is there any way to customize what you're printing? For example, instead of printing a list of my entire library, I'd like to print my To Read list. And it would be helpful if I could select which fields are printed, and choose how they're sorted. Are any of these things possible? Thanks!

>9 Diane-99: This is where Collections and the various views come into play.

If you just want to print your To Read list, then you make sure all the To Read books are in your To Read Collection. Have that selected.

Next go into your settings and look at your display styles. Pick one style to modify to just have the columns you want to print. Click save.

Then you're ready to print your narrowed desires.

That worked. Thank you!!

This is so helpful!
Thank you all.