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Export from Apple Books on iPhone to desktop without a cable
I have a iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 18.1.1. I have 15 no-DRM eBooks I want to export from my phone, but with one problem: I can't use a cable.
I also have an MacBook Pro 2019 running macOS 15.1.1.
How ...
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On iPhone, how to open a book in format epub in the app Books?
On my iPhone, in the app Files, I have a book in format epub. I want to open it in the app Books. This is simple. But I did not find any way.
When I click the book in the app Files, the iPhone goes in ...
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All books download on iPhone but also sync reading position and bookmarks?
I'd like to store all my books locally on my iPhone, but also continue to sync my reading progress and bookmarks across devices. How to achieve this?
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How do I download the iPhone User Guide as a standard file to a non-Apple computer?
I just bought a used iPhone 8, my first Apple product.
There is an iPhone User Guide from Apple. My normal practice with user manuals in electronic form is to download them in a standard, widely ...
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Transferring Audiobooks to another Macintosh
I don’t think anyone would accuse Apple of making things too obvious.
I have an iMac which I am retiring. My new machine is a Mac Mini.
I have a number of audiobooks which come from a third party. ...
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Sharing website in Books (= printing as pdf) does not work anymore in Safari, crashing the website. How to save a pdf of the website to Books?
On my iPhone 7, roughly till 2021, I used to print Safari websites that I wanted to save as a whole pdf by just sharing it with Books. I stopped doing so after switching to another browser, but now, I ...
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iCloud deletes my PDFs in Books App; How do I get them to be stored locally again
So, last month I decided to enable iCloud for Books in order to transfer all 400+ of my PDFs to my iPad automatically. However, in doing so, all of my PDFs were deleted from my iPhone!
I did the whole ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Weird and Inconsistent Behaviour Syncing Books with iTunes
I have spent quite a bit of time debugging this, and still can't figure it out.
While debugging, I ended up turning off the "Sync Books" option in iTunes. My iTunes sidebar, after clicking on the ...
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My Books app in my ipad pro deletes/disappears my pdfs. I am on IOS 12.2 and it is was updated a couple weeks back without issue
What did happen is that I was reading one of the PDFs and the next time I opened it, the Book app was frozen. So, I shut off the ipad. When I turned it back on, I realized that I went from 130 PDFs ...
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iPhone: How to ensure iBook files are stored locally
There was a bug in iBooks. When file storage capacity is low, iOS deletes some iBooks files. The bug was that it deleted many files even if storage capacity was ok.
And I lost a bunch of PDF stored ...
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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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Can I gift an ibook to multiple recipients as a conference giveaway?
I would like to gift a book listed on ibooks as a giveaway for 175 people at a European conference. Attendees all have iphones/ipads but are based across various European countries. I have all their ...
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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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Share books and bookmarks between all devices
I have lots of books bought or downloaded not from Apple's store.
I would like to simply put a book on my mac, then see it on my iPhone and iPad.
I also like to read it on my iPad, set a bookmark, ...
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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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How do I create a 'series' of iBooks not originally purchased as a series from the iBooks Store?
Is it possible to create a series of iBooks from epubs not donwloaded from the iBooks store?
For example, I have all the series of "Game of Thrones" in epub format (not purchased from the iBooks ...
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How to delete books from iBooks on iOS 10?
I want to delete some iBooks from purchased off my iBooks app, but the previous solution of hovering above it and an "x" appearing over it isn't working. I have an iPhone 7 with iOS 10.3.2
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How can I copy a PDF from OneDrive to iBooks using the OneDrive iPhone app?
I have a PDF file in OneDrive that I would like to copy to iBooks on my iPhone. Usually apps have an option to copy the PDF to iBooks, but apparently the OneDrive app doesn't. I tried pressing the ...
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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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How to recover a deleted book in iBooks?
I deleted accidentally a book that I was reading and it already automagically synced to my iPhone as well.
It was a downloaded ePub. I added notes and bookmarks there.
Now that's gone. Is there any ...
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How do I save iBooks pdf on iPhone to computer so I can delete them from iPhone?
My iPhone 6s+ is running out of memory. I have so many crochet patterns on my iBooks. How do I transfer those patterns to computer so i can delete them from my iPhone? When I first bought the computer ...
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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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Can't sync all iBooks from mac to other devices
I have done everything possible, starting from reading this :
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202759
I have set the sync option on the mac , and also on the iPhone/iPad.
When I buy a book outside ...
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how to get iBooks on Iphone4
I want to use iBooks to read the pdf I have synchronized on my old Iphone 4 (iOS7). I can't install it from the appstore on my phone because the latest version of iBooks require iOS 10.
It says "This ...
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Transfer PDF in iBooks from iPhone to iPad
How do I transfer a PDF I've saved in iBooks from my iPhone 6 to my iPadPro?
Thanks
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Specfic epubs downloaded outside the iBooks store not syncing on a particular mac
I have a handful of epubs I downloaded outside of the iBooks Store and read them across two different macs and an iPhone.
For reasons I cannot explain some books’ data (highlights, notes, place in ...
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iCloud Books: Failed to Load Book Because the Requested Resource is Missing
Since updating to iOS 9.3 and 10.11.4, I've decided to finally try and get my eBooks all fixed up and synced between my devices, since I swap between my iPhone and iPad often when reading.
I'm using ...
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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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iPhone 6 Plus will not open epub files
When I try to download epub files on my iPhone from the internet it used to go directly to iBooks, now it just goes to a blank page. How can I make them open in iBooks again?
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How to copy pdf files to be view with iBooks on iPad using iTunes
So I found this location on my Mac:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books
I then copy pdf files to that location. In iTunes, from the left column under Settings ...
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iTunes does not have ibooks option
I recently bought mac book air. In that I have itunes 11.2.1 version. Now I want to move all of my contents from my previous mac book's itunes to this new one and completely sync both my ipad and ...
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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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Sync books from iBooks on Mac with iBooks on iPhone
This task should be very easy to solve, but still, I can't do it.
I have downloaded a epub book, dragged it to iBooks app on Mac. Then I go to iTunes, click on iPhone and go to Books tab. I can see ...
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What methods exist for reading out content to hear correct pronunciation?
I would like to be able to have selected content from ebooks and webpages read out to me so that I may hear the correct pronunciation of words and sentences.
What accessibility options exist to help ...
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.ibooks format on the iphone?
I download a ".ibooks" file for this free book and tried adding it to my iPhone library but it doesn't show up. Manually dragging it over doesn't work either.
Is it because .ibooks isn't supported by ...
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Can I get non-iBooks Store ePub files into my iCloud iBooks library?
I buy quite a few ePub e-books from sources other than the iBooks Store.
I used to use iTunes to sync these to my iPad and iPhone. However, I’m trying to set up my iPad and iPhone to purely sync ...
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Can iBooks be read without a data connection?
If I am out of my service area can I still read a book in iBooks on my iPhone? If not, is it possible to download part of the book and read it while I am out of the area?
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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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Enable full screen mode in iBooks on iPhone
A recent iBooks update (1.5, I think) mentions a new "full screen reading mode" that gets rid of the junk on the top/bottom of the screen.
How do I actually get into this mode on the iPhone? I can't ...
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iPhone/iTunes backup books from iBooks
I have some books in iBooks that were opened from third-party apps, so they are not on my mac. I would like to save them in iTunes and don't find a way to do it.
For example there are some apps, that ...
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How do I publish a book in the iBook store for both the UK and the USA?
my one friend from UK want to publish a book for UK and USA ibook store
I found this page http://www.apple.com/itunes/content-providers/book-faq.html it has all the info but there is a section ...
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How can I convert a pdf to a format that is compatible with iBooks
I have a pdf file, which I would like to convert to iBook compatible format, which software can I use to do this? calibre seems to be too tough to work with
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Is there any way to add an ePub book to iBooks without iTunes?
I purchased a book and have it in ePub and PDF formats. I can easily add the PDF to iBooks from Safari. However, I can't find a method to get an ePub book into iBooks without iTunes. I'm away from my ...
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