iBooks 1.2: cannot move items into collections (the whole library goes)

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iBooks 1.2: cannot move items into collections (the whole library goes)

I just upgraded iBooks and, in spite of giving the iPad plenty of time to digest my existing library of a few epub's and many pdf's, what I saw in the "Books" mode graphic display was my items but all with the same cover (from a single pdf). When selecting an item, it would then open what was the real pdf.

Looking at my library via iTunes reveals everything is there.

After resetting the device, I now have the problem that all my items appear "stuck together". In the file listing mode, if I try to move a single item or several, the whole lot moves into the Collection.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated?

iPad 32GB WiFi, iOS 4

Posted on Dec 16, 2010 6:45 AM

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Pachuquero Author

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Dec 16, 2010 6:58 AM in response to Pachuquero

I should add that also in the listing mode the icons show the same cover of the same pdf (i.e. are referred to above).

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Pachuquero Author

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Dec 16, 2010 7:09 AM in response to Pachuquero

Any new documents added can be moved into Collections, so I suppose I have to delete and transfer again my library. The issue should nevertheless get noted as a bug.

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tincha

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Dec 16, 2010 7:12 AM in response to Pachuquero

I have the same problem! The wrong cover image has been applied to all my PDF's! Have you found a fix?

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MPF13

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Dec 16, 2010 10:49 AM in response to Pachuquero

I'm having the exact same problem with broken cover pages in PDFs, with the additional joy of having half of my PDFs merged, where I'll see a 2 page PDF in it's entirety, followed by a 140 page chunk of a completely different file.

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Dec 16, 2010 10:41 PM in response to Pachuquero

Seems like a real bug. I have the same expect problem.
All my Magazines have the same cover. Moving one of them to a new collection, will move all of them. Seems as if they all some how got the same pointer during the upgrade procedure.
One more thing. I never sync my book collection through iTune. I just copy them. Maybe those software guy at Apple, never checked the upgrade to 1.2 with people who never sync.

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Pierre M

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Dec 17, 2010 8:31 AM in response to Pachuquero

I suffered most of the issues listed here (wrong thumbnails, no "move to collection", etc.)
I was suggested to remove all documents (books and pdf) from the ibooks app, then place them back and it worked for me.
I now have nice thumbnails (although they seem to be "recreated" each time I start the app i.e. not cached because the app is fairly slow) and I can move single files to collection.
I hope this helps.
Best regards.

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MPF13

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Dec 17, 2010 11:08 AM in response to Pierre M

I actually tried removing all books and resynching - sadly, no luck, and the bulk of my PDFs still share a cover. I did notice that ibooks doesn't seem to be caching covers as well.

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Pierre M

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Dec 18, 2010 2:43 AM in response to Pachuquero

What I did:
1. Sync
2. Uncheck all items in Books section.
3. Sync (i.e. I did not delete books form iBooks on the iPad)
4. Made sure there was not a single book/pdf in iBooks on iPad (still 3.2)
5. Checked items in Books section (mainly PDFs)
6. Sync
Everything looked ok. But iBooks is in general rather "slow" compare to, for instance, GoodReader.
(But I like the self presentation better 🙂.)

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DAZIP75

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Jan 5, 2011 5:12 AM in response to Pierre M

I have the same problem, Ibooks was fine before the update.
I have all my PDFs on the bookshelf all with the same cover, when I open one up all files open up into the one folder. Afterwards only one file is left on shelf, but other files open up if I press onto the empty space as the other files are now invisable.

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Jan 5, 2011 5:20 PM in response to Pachuquero

If you have not updated to 1.2. STOP!!! Don't do it. I have experienced the following.

1. It's slow
2. PDF covers don't all generate properly or do so very slowly.
3. Opening some PDFs reveals blank pages.
4. Thumbnails on the bottom of the page do not cache and slow page rendering because they need to redraw every time you reopen a PDF.
5. Frequent crashes
6. General flaky interface behaviors. Got a black background for a shelf once.

Had flawless performance in the previos versions.
I regret doing this update.

Scott

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Tamara

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Jan 5, 2011 5:42 PM in response to Scott Griswold

1.2 works fine for me.

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Answer 12

Jan 5, 2011 6:35 PM in response to Pachuquero

i have same problem as Scott

😟

im regretting updating to 1.2

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Jan 5, 2011 6:51 PM in response to Tamara

Three questions. How many documents do you have. Are they all PDFs, and what iOS version are you running.
I have over 50 PDFs and am running on iOS 3, not 4. Worked fine before the update.

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Jan 5, 2011 7:01 PM in response to Pachuquero

the thing is , i updated the IOS3 for IOS4 and after updated IBook to version 1.2

before that Ibook was working very fast.

I dont know yet if its possible to revert to IOS3 ?

oh, also before updating i had about 200 books in my Ipad, even deleting all the books after updating except for one left in my Ipad to see if it was faster, but it didnt do any change , still very slow.

I also tried to restore my Ipad but it didnt came back to my old IOS3.

Message was edited by: sergeii99

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Answer 15

Jan 5, 2011 7:30 PM in response to Pachuquero

i downloaded BOOKMAN for the Ipad, and it work like a charm and its also free.

i will use this app to read PDF files until they have a fix for IBOOK.

🙂

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