Whether you like physical books, ebooks, or audiobooks, with Bookly, you can easily save quotes and organize them. 

This feature comes in handy for readers who don’t like highlighting their books or marking their pages, or for books that are borrowed, but you still want to save your favorite quotes.

There are three ways you can save quotes from books with Bookly: 

  • by taking a photo of a book; 
  • by converting an image to text; 
  • or by writing the quote yourself.

Here’s how each method works:

How to save quotes as pictures

Step 1: Add the book you want to read to Bookly by opening the app and tapping on the + button. 

Step 2: Start a reading session by tapping the Start reading button below the book.

Step 3: Whenever you find a quote you want to save tap on the Save quote button.

Step 4: Tap on the Take photo button.

Step 5: You’ll be asked whether you want to use your phone’s camera to take a picture of your book or use a picture in your Photo Library. Choose Take a picture.

Step 6: Using your phone’s camera app, take a picture of the quote you want to save. When you’re done, tap on Choose photo.

Step 7: Crop your image, if necessary, then tap on the arrow on the bottom right part of the screen.

Step 8: Your quote is saved as a picture. To view it, end your reading session by tapping on the Stop button, tap on your book to open the book details, and scroll down to quotes.

Step 9: If you want, you can also share your quote on social media directly from Bookly by using the share button in the top left corner.

How to save quotes by turning images into text

Step 1: Add the book you want to read to Bookly by opening the app and tapping on the + button. 

Step 2: Start a reading session by tapping the Continue reading button below the book.

Step 3: Whenever you find a quote you want to save tap on the Save quote button.

Step 4: Tap on the Image to text button.

Step 5: Using your phone’s camera app, take a picture of the quote you want to save. When you’re done, tap on Use photo.

Step 6: If necessary, crop it, then tap on Done.

Step 7: Wait for Bookly to process your image.

Step 8: Your quote is saved. If you want, you can edit it before you save it. To view it, end your reading session by tapping on the Stop button, tap on your book to open the book details, and scroll down to quotes.

Text quotes can also be edited whenever you want.

How to save quotes by writing them

Step 1: Add the book you want to read to Bookly by opening the app and tapping on the + button. 

Step 2: Start a reading session by tapping the Continue reading button below the book.

Step 3: Whenever you find a quote you want to save tap on the Save quote button.

Step 4: Add your quote and the page number and tap the Save button.

Step 5: Your quote is saved. To view it, end your reading session by tapping on the Stop button, tap on your book to open the book details, and scroll down to quotes.

This is it! These are the three ways you can save quotes from books using Bookly. Start a reading session now to save your own.

6 Comments

  1. Hey! I’ve trying to save quotes by converting an image into text and after doing the whole process of taking the picture and cropping it, a pop up comes un saying “URL incompatible”
    How can I fix this problem?
    Thanks!

    • gabrielle Reply

      Hi Adriana and thank you for using Bookly! Your best bet to fix the issue would be to send an email to our support team, they’re our heroes and should be able to help you out the best! Can you please send them an email at support@getbookly.com ? Thank you! 😀

  2. I can’t find my quotes. I entered one manually last night and I don’t see it anywhere in the app. I’ve searched the details of the book and it’s not there. I entered one from another book a couple of weeks ago and that one isn’t anywhere I can see either. If it matters, I have a Samsung phone.

    • gabrielle Reply

      Hi Ellen and thank you for using Bookly! Hm, you should be able to find all your quotes pretty easily.. sounds like a bug, our support team should be able to help you out with it! Can you please send them an email at support@getbookly.com ? Thank you! 😀

    • gabrielle Reply

      Hi Arlini and thank you for using Bookly! You can download the quotes for each book, but unfortunately, you can’t download all the quotes from one place. We’ll add it to our list for a future update though! Thank you 😀

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