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John O'Keefe 9e2f216af5 docs(user): dashboard, browsing, profile rewrites + new podcasts guide; trash stubs
Ground-truthed against the templates this pass:
- dashboard.md: real section kinds (system shelves incl. Continue
  Series, user collections, custom sections via /custom-section
  builder), Customize Dashboard panel semantics (per-library, drag,
  switches, 10-50 items, Save Changes), Refresh, This Week widget,
  per-item Read/Listen and progress-conflict resolve actions. The old
  page listed a wrong shelf set and never mentioned custom sections.
- library-browsing.md: the file was secretly titled 'Saving Custom
  Filters' and covered nothing else. Now the browsing page: All Books
  toolbar (search, Sort, Filters -> drawer hand-off, Save/Load/Clear
  saved filters), book detail as hub, series pages, podcasts split.
- profile-guide.md: field table ground-truthed from profile_form.templ
  (username/email DO remain editable there), audio defaults (speed,
  resume rewind, keep awake), timezone rendering contract, both theme
  doors (7-pick select vs 37-theme Appearance panel), Change Password
  with live checks, Danger Zone/Remove My Account + last-admin rule.
- podcasts.md NEW: the Podcasts page had zero documentation. Subscribing
  (Add Feed -> RSS URL, library, back-catalog download, download order,
  Add & Subscribe), Continue/All Feeds, Download All, player + Play as
  Sequence cross-link.
- Trashed user-areas.md, frontend-guide.md, settings-guide.md: stubs
  whose planned content now exists as real pages (or duplicates
  profile-guide). user-guide.md rewritten as the plain-language front
  door with a go-here-when table; index.md rows updated to match.
- ui-controls.md: 10 new gate-checked entries for every newly cited
  control (Add & Subscribe via templ-entity fragment).
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# Podcasts
Bookhoard is not just books: it also runs your podcast subscriptions. You
subscribe to feeds, episodes download for offline listening, and you can
play a run of episodes back-to-back — a feed, or a hand-picked sequence.
## The Podcasts page
Open **Podcasts** from the sidebar. The page is your subscriptions:
- **Continue** — the episode you were in the middle of, ready to resume
- **All Feeds** — every feed you subscribe to
- **Search** narrows your feeds and episodes
- Each feed's page holds its episodes, with **Download All** for grabbing
everything at once
Subscriptions live in your **Podcasts library** (feeds manage it themselves —
you won't see it in the regular library switcher, and it never mixes into
the book wall on **All Books**).
## Subscribing to a feed
1. Click **Add Feed** on the Podcasts page
2. In the **Add Podcast Feed** panel, paste the show's **RSS feed URL**
3. Choose the **Library** the podcast belongs to
4. Optionally: check **Download all episodes now** to grab the back catalog
immediately, and pick the **Download order** for new episodes — **Feed
order**, **Feed order (reversed)**, **Oldest first (pub date)**, or
**Newest first (pub date)**
5. Click **Add & Subscribe**
From then on Bookhoard watches the feed: new episodes appear as the show
publishes them, downloaded according to the order you picked.
## Playing episodes
Click an episode to open the audio player. The player keeps your place,
supports bookmarks, a chapter list where the show provides chapters, and
playback speed — the same speed and resume-rewind defaults you set on your
[profile](profile-guide.md) apply here.
To play many episodes in a row, use a collection: episode collections have a
**Play as Sequence** button and their own listening order — see
[Collections](collections.md).
*Finding your way back:* **Podcasts** is the sidebar page whose header reads
"Your subscriptions" — the only page with the **Add Feed** button.