Not impressed! No edit info, no library management!

Andy,

Thanks for the great information. Worked like a charm. I did need to reboot after completion of the steps to "see" Books in the iTunes list again. All is back working where it was including all my Collections neatly organized as before. 🙂

I still can't believe that Apple would implement iBooks for Mac and that it would disable reading iBooks on iPad/iPhone. Do do you think this is purposeful?

Bob

After the kill of FCP (I had to switch back to Avid), Pages (back to Final Draft), Keynote, now Apple destructs iTunes. Only apparent advantage: you can read the books, but not inside iTunes. You have to switch application. Calibre or Adobe readers works much better. In exchange of this "marvelous" new feature you loose the possibility to edit the book metadata. No "info" window. Books are hidden... No control over your collection..

I am a Mac user since 1986. I am a professional and always supported Apple for its reliability and attention to people who really works with computers. Now I'm seriously considering to stop paying thousand of Euros to buy what seems to became an expensive teenager toy.

Well, it's coming upon 2 months since the iBooks fiasco of Mavericks, and Apple has done squat to deliver an iBooks fix. Why?

Perhaps they fired the whole iBooks team -- I hope so.

Everyone:

When I upgraded to Mavericks (about 2 months ago), I completely removed iBooks from my system as per the instructions that were presented in the forum.

Apple has recently released a Mavericks update (v10.9.1) and I was wondering whether installing this update will bring back the crappy iBooks app back in my system.

Has anyone who removed the iBooks originally run the v10.9.1 update and checked whether iBooks does not reappear?

I'd like to get the latest update but only if it does not resurrect the apauling iBooks app.

Cheers.

Nikos,

I have uninstalled iBooks. I applied the Mavs 10.9.1 update. iBooks did not reappear.

Great, thanks.

Same here Nikos, no problem after updating to OS X 10.9.1. The books are still present in iTunes and no harm is done with the update.

Thanks Andy, that is now re-assuring. I was thinking of taking a full backup before I installed the update, but given those two replies, I feel comfortable just going ahead and installing it.

I wholeheartedly concur! I do not WANT iBooks at all, and I don't like the fact that iBooks commandeers my EPUBS by default. I haven't yet been able to look through everything that's posted here because I am dreadfully ill, but I hope someone has found a way to eliminate iBooks altogether. I would like to make iTunes disappear as well since I've never used it and never will, and I've been a Mac owner for several decades. Apple simply wants to make money, and that's fine, but Apple should make these Applications 'elective' and not mandatory.. After all, it's supposed to be a free market, isn't it?

You can read your EPUBS on "Kitabu" and your MOBIS on Kindle. You can also download Kobo's Reader for EPUB. I read my PDFS with Adobe. You can also still get Microsoft's Reader for LIT, but CHM is a problem depending on how it was coded. Calibre can take care of most conversions, although I still can't get a decent PDF conversion.

If you do a lot of reading on your Mac, you can still take advantage of the thousands of suggestions and code by signing up with mobileread.com. I may not be able to fix my Mac, but I do know about ebooks!

All the books from iTunes Media/Books folder are now moved and renamed.

All I need is the epubs to have the original name so that I can share them or and add one by one in Kindle or iBooks.

I have no back-up. Do I have any chance to recover the books in the old format, not renamed without a random long number?

When I went through the process of removing iBooks as described earlier in this thread, all the file names did actually return in iTunes. There's some internal store there that had saved everything, so it worked. Go ahead and do that, and you'll be happy.

I did have a few files appear that didn't return, that still had the weird numbers for filenames, but they turned out to be duplicates. Everything came back to normal, and updates have not put iBooks back on my MacBook, so there are no worries about that, either.

Good luck!

Terrible app and unforgivable Apple forgot to include Edit options. Now I have to edit all book info on another Mac with Mountain Lion installed.😠

A friend has just installed the developer beta of Yosemite and I saw that it is now possible to edit all metadata of a book in iBooks. You just choose list view and click in the column you want to change. The only thing that feels strange is changing the cover. You do that by draging the new cover over the name of the book in the list view. In order to see the change you need to chooose any of the other views.

This is the first positive information on iBooks i've heard in quite a long time. Anything that would permit full control over the metadata, as was present in iTunes, is to be welcomed and appreciated and may make iBooks actually useful.