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Synronize bookmarks in Books apps
I added a PDF and an ePub to my Books collection on my Mac; they was synchronized between my iPhone and iPad.
I added bookmarks to the PDF on my iPad and noticed that they were synchronized with my ...
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How to copy text from Books without "Excerpt from..."
On iOS, how can I copy some text from a book (in the default Books app) directly?
If I select
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to ...
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How can I edit Books’ metadata on iOS?
On iPhone SE 2 running iOS 16.6.1, there is no feature to edit the “Author” field in the Books app, for PDFs.
There is no feature to edit the metadata of files in the Files app either:
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How do I go back to the previous page after tapping on a link in Apple Books?
I'm in the Books app in iOS. I tap on a link to a different part in the same book (maybe to a reference in the back of book, maybe this was an accident). How do I figure out where in the book I was ...
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Downloaded ibooks get deleted when icloud sync is turned off, even under airplane mode
Recently, I had all my iBooks deleted from local storage as detailed in this question: Books automatically deletes my books when offline, and when there is enough space on device.
I went through and ...
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Books automatically deletes my books when offline, and when there is enough space on device
There is something strange going on with Books on iPad and iPhone. It keeps deleting some books locally, keeping them in the cloud.
It's frustrating because it happens when I'm offline and I simply ...
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sync iBooks page currently reading between iPhone and MacBook
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) (macOS Mojave 10.14.6) and an iPhone 7 (iOS 12.4.1).
I downloaded an ebook from the internet, and started reading it on my MacBook.
A few days later ...
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How to export downloaded PDFs from iBooks on iOS to a computer?
My wife has an iPad Air 2 running iOS 12.4.1. She has saved many PDF files into iBooks over the years from various sources such as websites.
Her iPad is dying, and she doesn't want to lose the PDFs.
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iOS 11 how to prevent iBooks from moving my books to the cloud?
I see that my iBooks seems to be uploading my books to the cloud without keeping a copy on my local device. So when I reopen the app, I have to wait for the book to do finish downloading (which is a ...
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Stop iOS Books adding Excerpt From on copy
When I copy from Books and paste in another app, the text I had selected is placed in-between left and right quotation marks, and has a short paragraph added afterwards
Excerpt From
Book
Author
This ...
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How to stop iPhone from offloading ebooks?
Sometimes I download ebooks in the Books app on my iPhone 7 running the latest iOS.
And then when I try to read them later without internet connection... I cannot
How can I force them to stay on my ...
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Selecting rather than highlighting in iPad books
On my iPad, when I read a book in the books app, a single word gets selected if I hold my finger on it. This allows several options and I prefer this extra tap if I want to look it up, highlight it or ...
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How to stop iPhone from deleting local music?
I download music to my iphone.
When I try to play the media offline some days or weeks later, it says I cannot because I am offline. They have cloud symbols next to them.
How can I stop this happening?...
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Does iOS 9.3.5 prohibit iBooks syncing via iCloud?
Is there anything that would prevent me from syncing iBooks with iCloud in iOS 9.3.5 on an iPad 2?
I have a working iCloud account in good standing, with three devices connected: an iPhone SE (MP832B/...
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Redownloading iBooks on an iPad 1st Gen
I downloaded iBooks onto my iPad 1st Gen (Running 5.1.1) a long time ago (on a different Apple ID) and I just today deleted it and now I want it back. The App Store will only let me download the ...
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Remote inspection for iOS Books
I can inspect an ePub book in Books on Mac using Safari’s web inspector. I can also inspect a web page in iOS Safari when the phone is plugged in to my mac using desktop Safari’s web inspector.
What I ...
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Problems with Books sync between iPad and iMac
Ever since macOS changed how it syncs with iPadOS I have found operations unsatisfactory and I wonder if there is any solution.
I have a number of books which I read in Books on the iMac 10.15.3, ...
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iOS: How do I transfer a mp3 from Google Drive to iBooks?
I have an mp3 audiobook on Google Drive that I want to listen to in iBooks on my iPhone. How can I transfer/copy/open that file from the Google Drive app on the iBooks app?
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Where does iBooks store current position within a book?
To be specific, I am speaking about epubs that I manually added to ibooks, not ones from the store. For an example, I download and import an epub, I read a few pages, I delete it. Some months later I ...
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Enlarge font in a book (ibooks, iOS)
I purchased a book through iBooks that appears to be in a pdf format. The font is so tiny that it's hard to read even with a max zoom. What can I do do enlarge the font even more? I tried importing to ...
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Books Art Not Downloading from iCloud
My books are no longer downloading the art (book cover) from iCloud on my iPhone. They show up on my Mac. I noticed that the new books look different in the finder as well. Anyone one have any idea ...
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How to listen to these downloaded BBC radio shows with Catalina?
For years I have been downloading radio shows from the BBC, tagging them as 'podcasts' and putting them into iTunes. With the Catalina update these files no longer seem to be listenable!
The Podcasts ...
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How to sync PDF bookmarks from MacOS Preview to iOS Apple Books?
Apple Books on MacOS opens PDF files in Preview. Preview can bookmark texts using CMD-D. When I open the same book with Apple Books on iOS the bookmarks are not transferred over. I have cloud sync to ...
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How to show newly added books in iBooks on iPad?
I use an iPad mini 4 as an ebook reader to read PDF books. I don't know if it's because of my stupidity or else, I feel iPad is many times harder to use as an e-reader than an android tablet, it has ...
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History of downloaded iBookstore samples?
For some reason—presumably a sync by my iPhone that overwrote my iPad’s more recently downloaded library—the majority of my iBooks were deleted.
The books I purchased can easily be restored, but I ...
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How to buy English books in iOS Books app from Spain?
I would like to buy books in English in the Books app from Spain. I set phone location to USA and changed system language to English but still can't. Is there any workaround to do this? Would be ...
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When I try to share my notes from Apple Books, the share menu is empty
This is what I get.
Perhaps it's caused by the latest update? I am on iPhone 6, iOS 12. And my iCloud sync for Books is disabled.
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Transfer a large amount of PDF files from PC to Adobe Reader (on iPad)
I've a bunch (~200) of PDFs, organized in directories, (Topic wise), that I need to transfer to my iPad for offline reading.
I've two problems: First, emailing is not an option. These are around 720 ...
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How can two people read the same book on different devices
I have bought a book on iBooks and my girlfriend also wants to read it. But I was wondering if it would cause any problems regarding icloud remembering where one of us stopped reading.
I have tried ...
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iOS 9.3 iBooks for iPhone starts with a blank shelf screen
I noticed that since updating to iBooks using iCloud with iOS 9.3, I'm starting to see this "blank screen" page when staring iBooks. The books are still there, searchable by name or visible when ...
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How to install iBooks on iPad
There is no iBooks on my iPad. I went to the iTunes AppStore and searched for iBooks and that showed anything and everything but that app.
So what is the correct way to use/install/download iBooks ?
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How to move pdf from iBooks to another app like Photos on iPad?
there was this pdf file i wanted to originally take off Safari into my iPad, and the only way to do that seemed to be saving it in iBooks.
But after that, is there a way to export the pdf from iBooks ...
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iBooks couldn't connect to the iBooks Store
I just set up a new iPad with a clean install and logged into iCloud and tapped 'Use iCloud' when starting iBooks. When I try to download a previously downloaded book from the 'My Books' tab in iBooks ...
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Sync iOS iBooks to OS X iBooks
Is there a way to sync the iBooks that were not purchased from iTunes on my iOS device with my OS X iBooks? Specifically, I have some PDFS I'd like to sync.
Please note I am seeking to synchronize ...
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No iBook app on iPhone X; cannot find app in App Store
I deleted the iBook app from my iPhone X. To get the app back, I assumed I could fetch it from the App Store. But when I searched the store for the app, the only hits I see for apps are for Audible ...
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Why doesn't iBooks save my place between the iPhone and iPad?
Background: I finally bought a fiction book to read on my iOS devices. It's Redshirts by John Scalzi. I bought it from Apple. It was supposed to be DRM-free but wasn't. So the author got Macmillan to ...
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Delete book from iBooks Mac when I delete it from iOS
I sync "All books" from my iOS device (an iPod Touch) and my Mac, in iBooks.
When I delete a book in iOS, it is NOT deleted on my Mac. Instead, in iTunes, the setting changes from sync "All books" to ...
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PDFs missing from iBooks on iPad after restore
After a complete restore of my iPad 2 from iTunes, all my PDF books not from the iTunes Store were gone. I just saw them for seconds and then disappeared. How can I get them back?
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How to change Font size for PDF in iPad running iOS 9?
I have iPad mini 2 running iOS 9. I'm transferring my PDFs to the iPad via iTunes.
I swear that I didn't find any option to increase font size in iBooks, not even in iBooks settings.
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How to know if my iOS contains pirated contents
This is my first question here and my question may sounds novice but I am going to spend my vacation abroad so I would like to make sure that my iOS devices are pirated free content.
I may have ...
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iTunes Store is unavailable
Recently I am downloading movies from iTunes Store and books from iBooks Store. But one annoying thing that I've ran into these days are The Movie/iBooks store is unavailable. This is happening for a ...
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Epubs from iBooks not showing up in iTunes on Mac OS X Sierra
I have about a few hundred of epubs that I’d regularly been syncing on my iOS devices until I’ve updated to Sierra a few days ago, when suddenly only a few books showed up in iTunes.
I tried turning ...
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Transferring PDFs from iBooks to your laptop/desktop
There are a lot of tutorials on how to load PDFs into iBooks, but none say how to backup or transfer them back to your computer. I understand there is a button to email them, but I probably have ...
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Is there anyway to standardize page length in iBooks?
I've been using iBooks lately to read a book, and I'd like to be able to set a page goal for myself, like I want to read 20 pages per day. However, since page sizes differ between iPhone, Mac full ...
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Force iBooks on iOS to sync with iCloud
I have my iBooks setup on both my iPhone and Mac so that their contents are always in sync. If I delete a book on my Mac, then it gets deleted on my iPhone, too. However, it usually takes 24 hours ...
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iBooks is synchronising with iPad but not with iPhone
iBooks is synchronising with iPad (mini2) but not with iPhone (5s). All devices have the same settings and updated to the last OS although with iPhone synchronisation is going only in one direction: ...
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Prevent users from deleting iBooks from iPad
I will be preparing some iBook files to use on an exhibit in a museum, and I am afraid that visitors accidentally (or not) delete the book from the iBooks app.
I looked at the Restriction Settings, ...
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How do i use iBooks or an alternative app across my devices for PDF annotations
I've never been able to get this to work so must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to read this PDF(The link is at the bottom of the page) and be able to add notes on my iPad say, but then be able ...
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Is Night Mode in iOS really sight-friendly?
I am pretty used right know to reading things on dark backgrounds and I feel that my eyes get less tired than with regular white backgrounds, especially while programming or basically any activity ...
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How do you delete a book on iBooks [duplicate]
My brother downloaded some books on my iBooks account and I want it permanently off my purchased and all books thing. I have iOS 8.1.2 so none of the answers in the previous question.
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