Guide
View, share, and manage each of your ARC Library profiles without mixing up your desks.
Published 2026-08-29 · Reviewed 2026-08-29
Profile is your Personal Shelf. It opens the profile for your current desk first and keeps Reader, Author, and PA profiles together when you use more than one. Choosing another profile changes only what you are viewing. It never switches the desk you have open.
Use Edit profile to open Settings → Profile Studio. Choose a profile and a focused section such as Basics, Reading tastes, Contact, Publishing, Pen names, Services, or Availability. Ordinary changes save automatically after you finish typing. Publishing, discoverability, and profile removal remain deliberate choices.
Profile Studio is shaped for the screen you are using. On a phone, use Switch profile and Sections to open touch-friendly sheets, then move with the previous and next controls above the app navigation. Tablets keep a large touch rail beside the editor and add a live preview in landscape when room allows. Computers use the available screen as one workbench, give profile text fields the full editing canvas, and hold the live preview at a readable profile width.
Every reader can publish a Reader Profile with a photo, name, short introduction, preferred genres, preferred ARC formats, where you post reviews, your social links, an email contact, your public reviews, and an about me. Reader Premium adds your statistics, tropes, favourite authors, review style, location, current reading, detailed visibility controls, and analytics. In Reading tastes, favourite authors and review style are Premium fields, so they rest under a gentle lock on a free plan, and anything you already saved is kept if a plan lapses. Visitors never see locked sections or upgrade messages.
An Author Profile can include several approved pen names beneath one shared public identity. In Author → Public page, claim the page address, publish or hide the page deliberately, and choose which visitor sections appear. Visibility choices save automatically, while publishing stays private until you confirm it. A PA Profile shows managed authors as professional relationships rather than extra personal identities. Team and assistant access still lives in the relevant professional desk.
Your private reusable application answers now live in Applications → Profile. Reader Profile analytics live in Statistics. Private Library fields, notes, quotes, and unpublished review drafts never become public simply because you publish a profile.