Garindan

Q: Not impressed! No edit info, no library management!

I really hope these can be fixed soon. As others have said, not having the ability to edit book info, which was so easy in iTunes, is terrible! And that iBooks moves all your books to a hard to find folder on your internal drive, and renames the files, equally bad.

 

It's great being able to read books on the mac for the first time, but everything else is a step backwards. In iTunes the books were stored neatly in the media folder and could be moved anywhere you wished with the rest of the library, and you could easily edit info, covers etc. Now it's all been taken away and we're stuck with having little to no options again.

 

I hope it can all be fixed soon!

iBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 1:46 AM

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  • by locksoft,

    locksoft locksoft Nov 2, 2013 6:50 AM in response to wendyfromhouston
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    Nov 2, 2013 6:50 AM in response to wendyfromhouston

    I think it's time to clear things a bit.

     

    Some users have iTunes back managing books with the procedure, some (like me) can't get the "Books" section back, even if books are there and show when an iDevice is connected.

     

    I tried tons of things, spent the last 2 hours deserving my place in h-e-l-l (lol, it was censured) and still nobody showed an answer.

     

    Now my question is: what iTunes version you have? I've the 1.11.2 and books are not showing. And you?

     

    Because I think that may be the problem.

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Nov 2, 2013 6:58 AM in response to locksoft
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    Nov 2, 2013 6:58 AM in response to locksoft

    iTunes 11.1.2 here ... followed exactly my steps 1) - 8) posted in this thread in that very sequence with no hassle and all works well ever since.

  • by locksoft,

    locksoft locksoft Nov 2, 2013 7:00 AM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Nov 2, 2013 7:00 AM in response to Andy Epprecht

    I did exactly the same.

    first time I started iTunes it had the books tab but it loaded a page where it said they were moved. Then books disappeared and never returned.

    I already removed iBooks with Appremover, same for the service.

     

    I'm really out of ideas now.

  • by locksoft,

    locksoft locksoft Nov 2, 2013 7:22 AM in response to locksoft
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    Nov 2, 2013 7:22 AM in response to locksoft

    Also, now every time I enter in the Store for more than 10 seconds, iTunes freezes. :(

  • by Julian Bashir,

    Julian Bashir Julian Bashir Nov 2, 2013 7:51 AM in response to StoneSoup
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    Nov 2, 2013 7:51 AM in response to StoneSoup

    StoneSoup,

     

    I did what you said, and was able to load the epub from Finder using Adobe. However, when I try to click on the epub within iTunes, it tells me "This book cannot be viewed with this computer." Is there a separate way to get it so that I can launch Adobe to read the epub from within iTunes itself? Like the way Preview opens up when I click on a PDF within iTunes.

  • by locksoft,

    locksoft locksoft Nov 2, 2013 7:51 AM in response to locksoft
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    Nov 2, 2013 7:51 AM in response to locksoft

    update: a reboot solved itunes crash. still no books tabs, thu.

  • by StoneSoup,

    StoneSoup StoneSoup Nov 2, 2013 9:36 AM in response to Julian Bashir
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    Nov 2, 2013 9:36 AM in response to Julian Bashir

    Julian,

     

    No, setting file opening defaults in Finder apply at the operating system level.  Individual programs can set their own file handling defaults that override Finder defaults. iTunes has taken that approach.

     

    Steven

  • by weegie_glw,

    weegie_glw weegie_glw Nov 2, 2013 12:21 PM in response to StoneSoup
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    Nov 2, 2013 12:21 PM in response to StoneSoup

    Works like a dream.....Brilliant

  • by 4merAPPLemployE,

    4merAPPLemployE 4merAPPLemployE Nov 2, 2013 12:50 PM in response to Garindan
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    Nov 2, 2013 12:50 PM in response to Garindan

    I strongly suggest everyone having issues with this submit feedback.  I did.

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks.html

  • by bluevoice,

    bluevoice bluevoice Nov 2, 2013 1:13 PM in response to 4merAPPLemployE
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    Nov 2, 2013 1:13 PM in response to 4merAPPLemployE

    Yes everybody should give feedback, I did it too!

  • by locksoft,

    locksoft locksoft Nov 2, 2013 3:20 PM in response to bluevoice
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    Nov 2, 2013 3:20 PM in response to bluevoice

    Ok, I guess I've finally found a solution for all those can't have the books category reappearing in iTunes:

     

    I have a second partition, with Mavericks installed as well (a sort of emergency in case main partition have problems). Well, Mavericks sees applications even on other partitions. So, once deleted iBooks.app on the second partition too, "books" reappeared for magic.

     

    Hope this will solve your problem too.

  • by rjonna,

    rjonna rjonna Nov 2, 2013 5:30 PM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Nov 2, 2013 5:30 PM in response to Andy Epprecht

    It will be helpful to others to know the location of the bookstoreagent:

     

    /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/boo kstoreagent

  • by wendyfromhouston,

    wendyfromhouston wendyfromhouston Nov 2, 2013 9:40 PM in response to StoneSoup
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    Nov 2, 2013 9:40 PM in response to StoneSoup

    Thank you so much....  Steven, Andy, Kevin... and everyone else..

     

    I love this group...   Funny enough I have gotten so much better and knowledgable tech support for

    Apple products from this group then over 20 hours on the tech support with Apple..

     

     

    I read in another line going somewhere about a program called Marvin,  I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about it ?  I really hate to think I am at the total mercy of Apple for the availability to read my books on my ipads.. 

  • by wendyfromhouston,

    wendyfromhouston wendyfromhouston Nov 2, 2013 10:28 PM in response to 4merAPPLemployE
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    Nov 2, 2013 10:28 PM in response to 4merAPPLemployE

    I submitted feedback and did some serious yelling too...   I am just dying to know what they are

    going to say when the engineers FINALLY get back with me.. and I tell them.

    SORRY.. I deleted your sorry *** program...  : )

  • by Arnoud NL,

    Arnoud NL Arnoud NL Nov 3, 2013 4:39 AM in response to Garindan
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    Nov 3, 2013 4:39 AM in response to Garindan

    Totally agree with everything said here. Ridiculous that we need to start developing "Microsoft-like" workarounds. A few hours ago I posted a summary of my experience migrating to iBooks including a summary of what needs to change. Guess what? Post deleted by Apple. At least it tells me that they are taking this seriously.

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