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smutslut is the household's shared reading app: one Catalog and Library everyone reads from, plus a personal Shelf for each Reader. Sign in with the Reader account the admin created for you — there is no self-service sign-up.

What's shared, what's yours

The Catalog is every Author, Series, and Book smutslut knows about, whether or not anyone has the file yet — every romance.io Book plus your own local-only Books, not a partial slice of either. The Library is the subset with a downloadable file — and it is one shared Library for the whole household: the moment anyone acquires a Book, it is ready for every Reader, at no extra cost to get it again.

Your Shelf is different: it groups your own manual collections and Saved Searches with a set of automatic views built from your reading status, ratings, comments, tags, bookmarks, and watches. Nothing you do there changes what another Reader sees on theirs. Choose Shelf in the header (or the bottom tab bar on phone) to open it — it lists every Shelf you can open, starting with Recently Added, the whole Library newest-first. See Use Your Shelf for what each one shows.

Recently Added

Desktop

The dark desktop Shelf's Recently Added row, pinned first, showing cards for Books already in the Library.

  1. Every card here is already in the Library, not just the Catalog.

The dark desktop Recently Added section header with its See all link to the full list.

  1. See all → opens the full Recently Added list — the same Books, paginated newest first.

Phone

The dark phone Shelf's Recently Added row, pinned first, with its See all link to the full list.

  1. See all → opens the full Recently Added list — the same Books, paginated newest first.
  2. Every card here is already in the Library, not just the Catalog.

Where each task lives

Get a Book

Desktop

  1. Use Search the Catalog in the header, or choose Discover, to find a Book by title, author, or recommendation — see Navigate the App for where these controls live and Find a Book for how to read the results.

  2. Select the Book to open its page, then choose Request under Get this book if it is not already in the Library.

    The dark desktop Book page for Paper Hearts, a catalog-only Book with no request yet, showing its idle Request control.

    1. Request appears when a Book has no file yet and no request already running.

  3. Once it is ready, the same spot shows the green Checkout control — choose it to save the EPUB to your device. If a request doesn't settle right away, or fails, see Request Books and Series for what each waiting state means and what to do about it.

The dark desktop acquire control for High Tide, an owned Book, showing the In Library flag beside its Checkout control.

  1. In Library means the household already has this file.
  2. Checkout saves the EPUB to your device.

Phone

  1. Use the Search or Discover tab in the bottom bar to find a Book by title, author, or recommendation — see Navigate the App for where these controls live and Find a Book for how to read the results.

  2. Select the Book to open its page, then choose Request under Get this book if it is not already in the Library.

    The dark phone Book page for Paper Hearts, a catalog-only Book with no request yet, showing its idle Request control.

    1. Request appears when a Book has no file yet and no request already running.

  3. Once it is ready, the same spot shows the green Checkout control — choose it to save the EPUB to your device. If a request doesn't settle right away, or fails, see Request Books and Series for what each waiting state means and what to do about it.

The dark phone acquire control for High Tide, an owned Book, showing the In Library flag beside its Checkout control.

  1. In Library means the household already has this file.
  2. Checkout saves the EPUB to your device.

Keep your place

Downloading doesn't set a reading status for you — the file and your reading progress are recorded separately. Open the Book page's Your reading section and choose Reading yourself when you actually start it; it then shows as Currently Reading. When you finish, use Done reading and choose Finished or Did not finish — see Track Reading for the full walkthrough, including how to correct a mistake.

Desktop

The dark desktop reading status control for High Tide, still Not started right after checkout.

  1. Current cycle: Not started stays put until you choose a status yourself.
  2. Choose Reading to start your own cycle.

Phone

The dark phone reading status control for High Tide, still Not started right after checkout.

  1. Current cycle: Not started stays put until you choose a status yourself.
  2. Choose Reading to start your own cycle.