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For questions about Apple Books (formerly known as iBooks), an application created by Apple for both iOS and macOS to enable viewing of PDF, ePub and .ibooks format files, typically electronic books. DO NOT use it for book recommendation questions, which are off-topic.

Apple Books (formerly known as iBooks) is an application created by Apple for both iOS and macOS to for viewing PDFs and ePubs as well as .ibooks files.

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The app is preinstalled on iOS and macOS.


This tag is for questions relating to both the iOS and macOS versions of the Apple Books app, or the iBooks app on older versions of the OSes.
For questions regarding iBooks Author, use .