Digital booklets in iTunes
Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
What bothers me about this whole Digital Booklet issue - like anyone else who has bought a CD, a booklet ALWAYs comes with the disc. Now, why music resellers think that you should only ever be able to download ONE copy to ONE computer of a Digital Booklet is beyond me. You paid for it, why should you have to go to such great lengths to retain it on the device you purchased it? I bought an album on my iPad. I connected it - ONCE - to a computer to update some software. Lo, and behold, my DB also downloaded to this computer without me realizing (A) I had a DB associated with this album, and (B) that it would ONLY copy itself to this computer - AND NOWHERE ELSE. Double-U Tee Eff, over?
Did iTunes alert me to the DB being part of the purchase, and that the next time I synched to my computer it would download it there, and only there? Let's just say iTunes SHOULD say "The next time you connect the iPad to ANY computer with iTunes installed, your DB is gonna drop itself there; so, if this isn't the computer you want it on - DON'T CONNECT IT UNTIL YOU ARE IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER YOU USE MOST FREQUENTLY (or know that this is where you'll always be able to find it).
I think this is a major fail on Apple's/iTunes' part to not allow a music DB to be stored on [the Apple device of your choice] as well as any Authorized computer you connect the device to. I'm going to have to do the same thing that one of the posters here lamented about - having to have his Dad go and find the PDF booklet and e-mail it back to him (or however it has to be done). At the very least, Apple should make them available in the iTunes store to re-download, because hey - they know that you bought the album, so they should ALSO know that you're entitled to the DB, too.
Okay so I just figured this out today. Not sure how, but I have been trying to sync my digital booklet that came with an album I just bought and I have been trying to figure out why it wasn't showing up in iBooks on my iPhone. Apparently you have to be in iBooks on your iphone while doing this and you have your iphone plubbed into the computer. Then go to the devices tab on iTunes. Click on your device and then go to the books tab. Check sync books. If you choose select sync books, click on the books you want to sync then hit the sync button on the bottom right corner of the screen. This should sync your book to your phone in iBooks app. I hope this helped:)
Brilliant article linked in this comment. Very comprehensive. Lots I had already discovered, but the technique of adding extra letters to files in order to group them and then changing them beck worked for my Digital Booklet merging problem! Thanks! 😀
Digital booklets in iTunes