Running a Reading Circle

Starting a Circle

On Circles, press Start a circle: a name (the one thing that cannot change later), a description, who can find it and how people join. Every reader account may run up to ten Circles of its own, with up to 500 members and ten moderators each; the Circles page shows your standing against that allowance. Authors start theirs from the same page or from the Studio: see Official Circles.

The Manage tab

Owners and moderators see Manage on the Circle, one section per job:

• Details: description, house rules, and who can find it (Public: listed in discovery, Unlisted: reachable by link, Private: members only).
• Book and plan: choose the current book, add a checkpoint (by chapter, by percent, by a date, with an optional meeting time in your time and a meeting length of 30 minutes to 2 hours), and a list of what to read next.
• Schedules: recurring checkpoints, from a template (weekly chapter discussion, monthly book club, two-week readalong, weekend sprint, ARC schedule) or custom; pause and resume; see The reading plan, checkpoints and meetings.
• Access: who gets in (Anyone can join, People ask, a manager approves, Invitation only), joining questions each with an answer type (short answer, long answer, pick one, pick several, or agree to something), and invite links: name one, set expires in days and limit uses (both optional), and revoke it; a revoked link turns away whoever still holds it, and people who already joined stay.
• Members: the waitlist of requests to approve or decline (they are not told either way when declined, and can ask again), invite by username, promote to moderator, remove (they lose access straight away and can be invited back) or ban (they cannot rejoin, even with an old invite, until you lift it). An owner can transfer ownership to a member and steps down to moderator; only the new owner can hand it back.
• Appearance: an accent, a banner and a density, drafted and previewed before you publish to members; take the Circle back to plain keeps your settings for later.
• Moderation: a preset (Relaxed, Standard, Spoiler strict, Author event, ARC discussion) that sets the spoiler policy, the joining policy and whether the discussion is locked; every preset is spelled out before you apply it, and the configuration it replaced is kept so you can restore the previous configuration. Lock discussion makes the Discussion read-only for everyone but managers.
• Polls, Challenges and Live: see Polls and challenges and Official Circles.

Reports inside the Circle

Members report posts, polls and challenges to the Circle's owner and moderators; the open reports sit in Manage until you mark them resolved. Anything that breaks the Community guidelines can also go to Booklabria directly (Reporting and blocking).

Archiving

Archiving makes the Circle read-only for everyone: the posts, plan and history stay readable, nothing new can be posted. An archived Circle no longer counts against your ten. To remove your own membership instead, leave from the Circle's menu.