how do you add songs to your songbook

Hello mrjersn & welcome to chordie!

To add songs to your songbook, first log in (seems obvious, but it's best to start at the beginning).

Next, find a song in chordie's index that you fancy (shouldn't be too difficult).

Go to that song and now look down the right side of the screen (below the transposing gizmo, and scroll gizmo, and fontsize gizmo, ads by Google, the rating gizmo, etc.).

There is a little space there that says "Songbook - Add" (or some such phrase).  Click this thingy and the song is now in your songbook.  Sometimes (rarely) some of these "Add" gizmos get covered by advertising stuff - I think this may depend on the browser you are using.

Having stuff in your songbook makes it easier to find.  It also makes it easier to edit the song and make improvements to your tastes - simply open the song using the little green 'edit' button at the end of song's listing.

Also, you can create new songbooks and name them whatever you choose.  I have several songbooks each containing stuff that seems to fit togither (in my mind at least).  Songs can also be moved or copied from one songbook to another.

Hope this helps . . . James