Complements

A complement is a piece of content that belongs beside another one. A review complements a book. A reading plan or a page of notes complements the same book. A reader's post complements your book club or your coverage. The thing a complement sits beside decides how it's shown, and you decide what's featured and what's hidden.

The Complements button

Every item in Studio has a paperclip button called Complements on its card. It opens a window with three tabs.

Complements...

This tab says what the item is a complement of. At the top, "It's a complement of" lists what it's attached to now, each with its role ("Review", "Notes"...). The cross next to one ("No longer its complement") detaches it. A complement a book club's owner has hidden says "Hidden by its owner".

Under that, your publication's content is listed in rows, as when you add something to a page. Click what the item should complement, say a book of your book club. If that thing takes only one kind of complement, it's attached right away ("Added as a complement"). If it takes several, you're asked "As what, in ...?" and pick one. A book of a book club takes:

• Review
• Reading plan
• Notes
• Complement, for anything else

Articles, zines, coverages, events, videos, decks, blurbs and posts can all be complements. Some things can't take one: Peakub tells you "It can't be a complement of this." An item can't complement itself.

Complemented by...

The other way round: what is attached to this item, and how it's shown. For each role there's a choice:

• First, in large: the featured ones lead.
• In a list
• Not shown

Below it, each complement has its own buttons: a star to feature it (any number can be featured), arrows to move it up or down (only for a book's reviews, reading plans and notes; readers' posts show the featured ones first, then the newest), and an eye to hide it or show it again. A hidden one stays in the list, dimmed, so you can bring it back. A complement that isn't published yet is marked "Draft": you see it, readers don't.

Used in

The pages, zines, lists and menu where the item appears. See Blurbs.

Choosing who can post

A book club and a coverage can let your subscribers post into them. In both, the question is "Who can post here?":

• Only you and your team (the default)
• Your subscribers
• Your paid subscribers

For a book club, it's in the book club's settings, and it covers the club and its books. For a coverage, it's in the coverage's editor. The people you pick publish posts there; the posts show next to yours, still signed by their author.

How each book shows its complements

Still in the book club's settings, one question per role: "How is a book's review shown on its page?", the same for reading plans and notes, and "How are readers' posts and other additions shown on a book's page?". Each takes the three choices above. What you pick here applies to every book. A book can choose for itself from its own Complements button, "Complemented by..." tab.

Posting as a subscriber

If you subscribe to a publication whose book club or coverage lets subscribers post, the post form's "Publish in... (optional)" offers it when you search. It's marked "as a subscriber" next to its kind, and once you pick it a note says "You post here as a subscriber: your post appears among its own, and stays yours." The post remains yours, under your name. It doesn't become the creator's, and the creator can hide it from the club or the coverage. If the creator asked for paid subscribers, only they are offered it.

What readers see

• A review's page says "Review · " followed by the book's name above its title. The same goes for reading plans and notes.
• On a miniature of a review, the book it's about sits at the corner, stapled on with a paperclip. Hover it to read "Review · " and the book.
• A book's page shows its complements as you chose: featured first, in a list, or not at all.

Adding a review to a book

On a book of your book club, in the Book club tab of Studio, click Add a review (Write review in the books table). The post form opens with the book already chosen and the title "Write a review for ...". Once you save it, the review is attached to the book as its review. The button then reads Update review.