Books are publications that contain multiple posts under one title. They allow members to collaborate on publications. They also allow individual members to publish a series under one title. Readers can then read each post in sequence and page back and forth between them. This allows the series to be presented as one publication. When viewed in "printer-friendly version" all of the posts can be seen on one long page. To view books, click the "books" link under navigation in the left sidebar. When you open a book page a navigation tool that opens in the left sidebar. A good example of how the book content type can be used is here.
To create a book, click "create content", then "book page" under navigation in the left sidebar. This will open the "create book" page. At the top you see the title box. For the first page this should be the book title. Under the title box is a parent box. For the first page you want to leave it as it is (top-level). Now create the intro page to the book giving a brief summary of what the book is about and then publish it. You can either use the rich text editor for this or just type directly into the text box. Once you have entered the text for the first page click preview then submit buttons at bottom of page. After the page is created you should see a link at the bottom that says, “add a child page”. Click that link and it opens another book page. This time you want your book title page you just created in the parent box and you will want that in all the parent box's of all the subsequent pages. Add the content for this page and submit it. Repeat the process for as many pages as you want to publish in the book. Just remember to keep the original title to the book in the parent box. This will create a "table of contents" on the introduction page.
