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Sending ePubs from PC to iOS iBooks via iCloud Drive?
So my goal is to use iCloud Drive to hold all of my ebooks and organize accordingly. On my iPad and iPhone, I have enabled iCloud Drive and by iBooks in Manage iCloud Drive, toggled that on too.
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iBooks (OS X) can't download Book
I have an issue where a book of mine doesn't seem to want to download at all. I purchased the book from the iBooks store. At a couple points in the past the specific book in question was deleted off ...
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Send Docs to iPad via email address like Kindle?
Is there a way to send docs to your iPad (iBooks) via an email address endpoint like Amazon has for your Kindle?
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Help with iBooks not being able to send a PDF using the share icon?
My iPad 2 and has iBooks and I'm trying to send a PDF "book" to a friend of mine. The sharing button is shaded so I can't do it!
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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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iPad books do not show all images
I have an iPad2 (brand new) onto which I have loaded books from the app store. Most of these books are showing a blue question make where the images should be. This includes the 'iPad User Guide" from ...
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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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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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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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Words are selected in a weird way in iPad Pro Books!
In Books in IPad Pro 11 inches, iPadOS14.5, sometimes when I want to select part of a text, the first word on which I click is selected like in the picture, and move as I scroll, and doesn’t go away ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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 to send a password to iBook buyers?
I'm publishing a textbook on iTunes Connect that has facilitator sections as HTML widgets. I'd like to password protect them as sometimes they have answers to quizzes that ideally the student doesn't ...
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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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Only move one page in double-page view | iBooks
I like reading books in double-page view in iBooks. But I always can only move two pages in this view, like in RL.
Is there a way to only move one page, for example to compare images on different ...
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Sending a PDF to iBooks (iPad)
How can I send a PDF to my iBooks in iPad without having to connect the iPad to my laptop using a cable?
Is this possible at all? Or do I necessarily have to use iTunes and a cable?
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Check an iBook I'm making on a Mac?
I'm making a book with iBooks Author, for the iBookstore.
It's a simple picture book; each page an image. No video. No sound.
I don't have an iPad or an iPhone.
Is there a way to check how the book ...
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How do I open an EPUB from an email in iBooks on my iPad?
I have my iPad now with iOS 5.1. In the email I have a .epub but when iPad's email program download the file, there is no way to open it on iBooks? Tapping or double tapping on the attachment ...
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iBooks preview not working?
I recently converted one of my books into an iBooks format using Author. However when I connected to my iPad and went into 'preview', I saw my device, clicked it, but the 'preview' button to enable ...
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How can I recover books accidentally deleted on an iPad Air 5?
I accidentally deleted the iPad Books app and everything in it was deleted. Is there a way I can restore it?
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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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iBooks library is suddenly empty
I have been trying to copy annotated books from iBooks to my computer. This has been unsuccessful. However, in the process I somehow lost my all my books! I think (hope!) they are not actually lost, ...
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How to download books from Apple books?
Is there any way we can download the EPUB's and PDF's we'd uploaded to Apple books?
Certainly hope it's not locked into the Apple ecosystem.
Trying to download the pdf for use with logseq but couldn't ...
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Using a Python String on a Mac for a Non-Coder?
I'm thrilled to find Navddeep's solution here How to convert an epub package to regular epub? yet two essential questions arise as I try to implement it.
What in the string must I change to identify ...
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If I highlight and annotate a PDF in iBooks, will those highlights be kept if in Adobe Acrobat?
If I highlight a PDF in iBooks on an iPhone and save the PDF, will those highlights be present if I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat? Or vice versa?
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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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"No PDFs" in iBooks on ipad; i.e. PDFs don't persist in Library
PDFs instantly disappear in iBooks after I click out of them.
In particular, I can read PDFs by going into the "Files" app, going to my icloud drive, clicking a pdf, then clicking "open ...
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If add a file to books, do I need to keep the original file?
Suppose I have a pdf file (i.e. some file that is not purchased through books).
If I add this file to Books, do I need to keep the original file, or does Books make a duplicate copy that it saves ...
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iBooks Apple ID sign in prompt accepts my password but fails and re-asks, repeatedly
I am on a new MacBook laptop running 10.14, and trying to sync my book library on iCloud to the Books app.
When I open the Books app it asks me to sign in to Apple ID, and it accepts my password. But ...
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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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Unable to change author name in an ebook on iPad
I have a Mac computer where I downloaded an ePub and then changed the author on the Mac in the list view of iBooks.
MacOS 10.12.6 Sierra
iOS 12.3.1 for the iPad
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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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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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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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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 report content errors in an iBook?
How do I report errors in the content of an iBook that I've purchased? The feedback and problems reporting that I've found seems focused on getting a refund, not on repairing errors in the content.
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Download epub that's on iCloud
I have an epub that I unfortunatley deleted from my pc. It is however, still on iCloud and available to me on iBooks (when it's synced with icloud). I would like to download that epub again to my pc, ...
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iBooks Store: How do I know what format is used?
I see a technical book on the iBooks store which looks interesting. The description tells me everything except:
What format (PDF, ePub etc) is supplied?
Does the book have DRM?
I don’t know whether ...
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macOS Sierra, Multiple problems with iBooks syncing to iTunes 12
I'm having a whole heap of problems trying to organize my small collection of ebooks. Mostly PDF but a couple of epubs as well none of which came from the iBook store. I'm running Sierra 10.12.6 ...
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How can I restore iBooks stored in iCloud from a Time Machine backup?
I found that many of my books and PDFs had been removed from iBooks.
I'm not sure exactly how it happened but recently I had both used the Storage Management app (to remove a few specific books) and ...
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"The operation couldn’t be completed. (BKAgentServiceErrorDomain error 8.)"
I recently updated to High Sierra, and am now unable to open books (ePubs/PDFs alike) via iBooks. These books are there, I can drag them out to my Desktop or sync them to my iPad, but they do not open ...
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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 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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Synchronizing iBooks with iPad/iPhone does not synchronize collections
When I synchronize iBooks from my MacBook to my iPhone/iPad via iTunes it synchronizes all my books, but it doesn't synchronize the collections (they are all just dumped into one single collection).
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