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Reload books in Books App
I have a (large) number of epub books in my Books App. These books come from non-book store sources, so they’re on my disk.
I can access these books using the Books folder on iCloud. In some cases, I ...
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iPad Books not appearing in macOS Finder
When I select Books in the macOS finder, connected to my iPad, there are no books.
I have, I think, about 800 books. I see them both in the finder under iCloud Drive/Books and in the Books app, both ...
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Turn off iCloud sync for Books
Sonoma 14.4.1. System Settings > Internet Accounts > iCloud > Apps Using iCloud: Show More Apps. I have turned off iCloud sync for all the apps in the provided list (screenshot #2), but for ...
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How can I copy text from Books.app in 2023?
On macOS Monterey in Books.app, how can I copy some text from a book directly?
If I select
Letter of Marque spike loot. Haul wind man-of-war holystone ahoy bounty flogging Jack Tar heave to execution ...
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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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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 does the Books iCloud folder work?
There is a folder visible in Finder which has all of my books which were manually added (not from the store). Moving books into this folder gets them on to my Books app on the iPad and the Mac.
The ...
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Download a purchased audiobook in Books as a local audio file?
I've purchased an audiobook in Apple's Books app on MacOS. I noticed it says "download" but apparently that just means downloading within the Books app, so I can listen there. However I'd ...
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mac Books.app copy text from a epub book, the content is truncated as ellipsis
when I copy text from books, seems there is size limitation, the copy is truncated, please see an example:
“on this earth I’m going to live. Why be only half alive? Every minute a person spends ...
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TTS has stopped working in Apple Books
Before Monterey, I could use the Text-to-speech feature in Books.app. It stopped working for me and I miss it so much. I have tried other e-book readers (Calibre, some garbage from Adobe) where the ...
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How do I add an ePub to my iPad
I have an ePub which I bought outside of the Book Store, and on which there is no DRM. It is sitting on my iMac, running MacOS Big Sur.
I can double click on the ePub and open it in the Books App. ...
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Missing files from Books
My wife has lost a number of files she had in iBooks on her iPad.
These were journal articles downloaded from the web or books/patterns she had purchased on line.
Many are no longer available for ...
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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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Page difference is books on my mac
Let's say book A on hardcover is 800 pages. After downloading it online, the page count is a lot more. Is this normal?
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Finder is not finding my books on the mac
I am trying to sync my books from my mac to my iPAD but the finder is not showing my books so nothing is synced.
Even PDF files are not showing in the finder.
I am using MacOS 10.15.3
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How to Sync Books from Mac on Catalina
I upgraded to macOS 10.15.3 and am having trouble syncing books from my Mac to iPad.
In the documentation I only see reference to iCloud. This would not be satisfactory to me.
Is there a way to ...
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How to edit m4b audiobook metadata in Catalina?
In Catalina it is not possible to edit audiobook metadata anymore as it was possible using iTunes in previous macOS versions. I tried a third-party tag editor (kid3), successfully edited the audiobook ...
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Books doesn't have a 'Show in Finder'?
Books 2.2 on Catalina 10.5.2
There appears to be no more 'show in finder' option! How do I know where my books actually are on my hard drive?
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Open book from command line
I can open books on the command line using:
/Applications/Books.app/Contents/MacOS/Books
but how do I open a specific book if I have the path to it?
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How to fix Books.app in Catalina [duplicate]
I recently updated to Catalina, and am now unable to open books (ePubs/PDFs alike) via Books. These books are there, I can drag them out to my Desktop or sync them to my iPad, but they do not open in ...
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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 Calibre books into Apple's Books.app?
How can I export Calibre books into the macOS Books.app?
I mainly care about PDFs at this point, but of course it would be nice if other formats could also be exported into Books.app.
I like that ...
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Apple Books on Mojave stuck
I launched Apple Books on my 2016 MacBook Pro (10.14.5) to continue reading some book I had started on my iPad Pro (where it was purchased).
As expected the book was in the cloud so I double clicked ...
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Why is iBooks.app taking 650 MB memory on macOS 10.14.5?
I am using macOS Mojave 10.14.5. Books.app shows 650 MB memory being used in Activity monitor even when it is not opened. I have books of around 110 MB but I haven't used the app very much recently.
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What is the current latest version of Apple's Books app for macOS?
In the Books app on my Mac, About Books reports the version as version 1.16. Is this the current latest version?
I am running macOS 10.14. Wikipedia article for Apple Books mentions version 4.1 of ...
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Delete or Update Swift Book in iBooks
I had downloaded the Swift Book 4.0, it updated successfully on my iPhone but not on my Mac.
It did not even open the book. I followed the solution here, after I deleted the folder, I opened iBooks ...
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Apple Books app and multiple desktops: How to stop app window to show on all desktops?
I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.4 with Books.app version 1.18.
I use multiple desktops. When I open the Books app on one desktop, and then switch to another desktop, the Books app window shows on ...
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Can't open some ePub books in Books.app on macOS Mojave
Two ePub books that I've bought won't open in Books.app in macOS Mojave 10.14. The books have social DRM (personal information added to the content of the book), and I don't think this should be a ...
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Books - PDF - Preview - Search : "No Results Found"
I recently upgraded from High Sierra to Mojave, and consequently iBooks became Books. I now have an issue with Books which was not present in iBooks.
I have stored many PDFs iBooks. Clicking on one ...
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How do I dock Table of Contents in Books on macOS Mojave?
I am on macOS Mojave 10.14.2 and using Books Version 1.16(1636.1).
When I am reading a book, the table of contents can be only shown on demand and in auto-hide mode.
Is there a way to dock it?
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How to set multiple-author metadata for an item in iBooks?
While I can edit books' author metadata in the list view, I can’t seem to be finding a way to set multiple authors for a single title. Is there any way to do this, so that I can have, let's say, two ...
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All content inside iBooks disappeared
Title is self-explenatory. I really didn't do anything special, all epubs, PDFs etc are gone. I restarted the computer, same result. I have only used it from my MacBook, no iPhone, iPad or anything ...
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How to change margin width of iBooks in macOS
Is it possible to change the margin width in iBooks in macOS? I'm attaching a screenshot wherre I've marked the width with red arrow. My question is can I shorten or widen the left/right margins?
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Changing swipe direction on iBooks (MacBook)
When I swipe from left-to-right on my Trackpad, iBook goes to the next page. When I swipe from right-to-left, it goes to the previous page.
Is there a way to reverse the order for this?
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Securely erase all user data on an old iBook
I have an old iBook (Model A1007) that I would like to donate, but first I need to delete all of the last user's data so that it is not recoverable. With Windows machines, I usually do this by running ...
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Hide finished iBooks?
I have a lot of books in ePub and PDF format in iBooks on my Mac. I sync the next few ones I want to ready to my iPhone and iPad and read them there.
Is there a way to set up a workflow so that when ...
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Multiple "copies" of audiobooks in iTunes
I am using iTunes on Windows 10.
There are multiple "copies" (air quotes) of most (not all) audiobooks in iTunes. I used air quotes because when I search the PC for the books, there are only single ...
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How to use time machine to recover a deleted pdf in iBooks?
I just accidentally deleted a pdf in iBooks on my MacBook, and I'm trying to use time machine to recover it. I learnt from the following question that I can only get access to the folder storing all ...
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Adding non-Apple Store eBook to iPhone
I have a number of eBooks (ePub) either from free sources such as Gutenberg, or purchased elsewhere.
I can open them easily enough on my iMac with eBooks, and I gather that they are in my library (...
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How can I read the previous edition of a book on iBooks?
I accidentally updated my "The Swift Programming Language" book to the Swift 4 edition from Swift 3.1. Can I revert back to 3.1?
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Unable to edit author/category for some books in iBook
I know metadata can be edited at the list view, like this:
The thing is, for some files this works. However, for others, when I quit iBook, open it again, the author and category comes back again. ...
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Edit meta data of PDFs in iBooks.app?
I use iBooks to store longer PDF's like scientific papers etc., so I can easily read them on my iPad.
But a lot of them do not have any meta data attached (like author) and/or have really bad file ...
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How to copy a book from iBooks with highlighting?
I have a book on my iMac at work which has highlighting all over the book. But when I put the book in my Dropbox and open it on my MacBook at home there are no highlights. Is there a way to preserve ...
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Zooming in macOS iBooks
I am reading an .ibooks file which I downloaded from the iBooks Store in the macOS iBooks app. On iOS, to zoom in on the text you can simply double tap or use a pinch gesture. However, it doesn't seem ...
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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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Where are my iBooks stored in macOS?
I am looking here for my iBooks in macOS:
/Users/'USERNAME'/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks
But the folder is empty. When I open iBooks (the App) in Sierra, then ...
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Can you remove PDF's after you add them to iBooks?
I have iCould sync on. So all my books get sync across my devices. Great!
Now, my question is: can I remove the PDF's (from my Downloads folder) after I added them?
I tried it, it seems to work, ...
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How to reset iBooks app in OS X 10.10
How can I reset the iBooks app, I mean completely reset it to the version that was installed and when first opened, where the app would show "Welcome to iBooks" and "Get Started"?
I think I must ...
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How do I download PDF file?
I am doing web-browsing with Safari on my iphone, and I have opened up a pdf.
How do I save the pdf on the iphone? What if I don't want to save it as "ibook"?
Thx
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iBooks on El Capitan
I have a large number of items in iBooks. Some are ePub, and there are lots of work related PDFs. In total, I have around 20k documents that I want to sync to my iPad to carry around as a convenient ...
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