Reorder pages?

Are you actually asking for help or advice..... or making a wish list??

I bought a new car and expected it to go faster than 150 MPH and fly at least least 2 miles at 1500 feet, before plunging into the sea and converting to a submarine. I realise that I bought a car not a fantasy machine.

Well by the same illogical logic....iBooks Author was created to do certain things in a way that Apple decided was sufficient for its users - who are allowed to use it free of any charges.

So just as I had to use the built in facilities of my new car as they were intended.... so do we "authors" have to get the best out of the software which we did not buy.

There are other software packages such as inDesign which are said to be far more powerful, but they cost money and are not really as good as iBooks Author.

Within iBooks Author you can....

.....move Chapters with all their content up or down the Tree and even into other books. You can move sections within chapters or into other chapters and even - again - into other books. Pages are not movable and for over two years now its been asked for and Apple ignore the requests, probably because.......

A good "author" will pre-plan the layout and content of the book, however if you want to move a page and or its content, simply insert page BELOW the page you want the new page to follow on from.. and go back and select ALL... copy it and paste in the new BLANK page... then delete the unwanted page.

It takes longer to write that sequence than it takes me to actually carry it out.

If you are on your first book, I suggest you put it aside and learn more about the software by checking every menu item and option, before committing to a serious project. In the long run, you will learn more and waste less time.

I personally do not see any logic in having "interlude" pages! Users will simply swipe past them to the next content page. You could insert a page and explain why you want them to hold back at that page!

"Author" - the quotes being yours to imply that I am not. In fact, I am, and you can find my work in bookstores, Amazon and elsewhere. I am also a creator of print magazines and other publications and additionally my work has been published in many publications created by others, from National Geographic to Smithsonian, New York Times to Los Angeles Times Magazine and a host more. Yes, I have planned this book and I have been familiarizing myself with iBooks Author over the past three weeks. But plans are merely guidelines that creativity cannot be bound by. Having worked in print all my life (I regularly use inDesign), I started this project out thinking in print and in fact made an inDesign draft but as I moved into iBooks Author with iPad in mind, I began to see new new possibilities and new ways to do things in keeping with the medium. Ironically, I also observed that even as these new possibilities were created wholly by Apple, Apple had also intentionally thrown up stumbling blocks.You see no logic in "interludes" because you do not see the project and you seem not to comprehend that "Interludes" just might be a creative device that will be apparent to interested readers of the final product.

As to asking for help or advice or merely a wish list... a bit of both.

Do you seek to give help and advice or merely to put down and to demonstrate your own self-conceived superiority?

"Author" - the quotes being yours to imply that I am not. Your interpretation not mine. Used as a collective noun.

I did not ask for your resume - I replied to your post on an old thread. Which I have to say is probably due to Apple destroying a very usable forum format and replaced it where the posts are displayed by the first poster... and not the last reply - which it did before...and which now results in newcomers seeing a 2 year old post - which is long forgotten by those previously involved.

Do you seek to give help and advice or merely to put down and to demonstrate your own self-conceived superiority? My oh my, woke up with a bad head....

I have basically ceased offering help or advice on here, due to high brows and those who cannot be bothered to to work out their self created problems through lack of effort to learn the application and who think Apple and iBA should be changed to suit them instead of taking a free package and taking time to learn what that package will do and not do and then setting out their project with that knowledge - however as its an old post to which I was subscribed long ago.... I had an email to advise your new post - which seemed to indicate a newbie to iBA and no other experience.... commenting on the lack of a "move the page facility"- for which I gave the information on how to move objects and how to work around the page issue... which is all recorded on many other threads.

You use inDesign, so you are are aware that a software package does what the engineers built into it and no more. Feedback is the way to Apples door with your thoughts and comments on anything iBA related. They do not - they say - monitor these groups.

I do not hold any self-conceived superiority - although I am not the one asking for any help - because I took time to learn the application and there are literally thousands who know far more than I, none of whom I would demeen for explaining how the application can or cannot operate, nor would I offer a resume to sooth my bruised ego. Perhaps, if you had followed Apples advice read through the many threads before making a post.... we would both have wasted less time here.

I also offer my thanks, you have convinced me that backing away from spending time here offering help to newbies and those with problems- was the right decision. If you check the posts you will see that only one of the top participants is still "working", I and others have moved away.

With that, I will exit this conversation and give you the last word, should you wish to have it. Had you have truly sought to offer help or advice, both the tone and outcome here would have been totally different.

Good day to you...