Create Your Book Dragon Profile

Book Dragon begins with you because sharing a library works better when the app can tell one reader from another. The first time you open Book Dragon, you will be asked for your first name, last name, phone number, and email address, along with an optional profile photo. You can enter those details yourself, or you can let Book Dragon fill them from your own contact card if that information is already sitting in Contacts. The goal is not to create another online account or build a profile that lives on an Archive Nine server. The information is there so Book Dragon can recognize you when you share with other readers and so the people around you can tell that they are sharing with the right person instead of trying to distinguish between anonymous devices.

Fill in your profile

Enter your first name, last name, phone number, and email address, then add a profile photo if you want one. Your name and photo are the parts of the profile that can help another nearby Book Dragon user recognize you during sharing. Your phone number and email address are used differently. They can help with private contact matching, but they are not displayed to nearby readers simply because you are sharing a library with them.

Once the information looks right, tap Save. You do not need an Archive Nine username, password, verification email, or another account to remember. Your Book Dragon profile is part of the app on your device rather than the beginning of a separate Archive Nine identity sitting somewhere on our servers.

Fill it from your contact card

If your own contact card already contains the information Book Dragon is asking for, tap Choose My Contact Card instead of typing everything again. iOS will ask for permission to access your contacts because Book Dragon cannot read a contact card you have not allowed it to see. After you grant access, choose your own card and Book Dragon can use the name, photo, phone number, and email address stored there to fill the profile.

Granting contact access is optional. If you would rather not provide it, enter the information manually and continue. Book Dragon does not need access to your contacts simply to catalog books, and using the contact-card shortcut should remain exactly that, a shortcut for information you would otherwise type yourself.

What Book Dragon does with the information

Your profile information is stored on your iPhone and is not collected by Book Dragon into a central Archive Nine account system. During nearby sharing, your name and profile photo can be shown so another reader can recognize you. Your phone number and email address are used only for private contact matching and are not shown as part of that nearby profile.

That distinction is intentional. Sharing should feel like handing a book to somebody you recognize, not broadcasting your contact information to everyone nearby. Book Dragon needs enough information to help identify the right person without turning a simple library-sharing feature into another public social profile.

You can change the profile later if your email address changes, you want a different photo, or you notice that your contact card filled something incorrectly. There is no reason to spend ten minutes perfecting it before you have added a single book. Give Book Dragon enough information to recognize you, save the profile, and move on to the part that brought you here in the first place, putting the first book into your library.