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 Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 4:06 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb
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    Oct 26, 2013 4:06 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb

    A small refinement or let's say alternative to Kevin's wonderful solution:

     

    1.) Stopped the bookstoreagent process.

     

    2.) Moved its file to elsewhere (Documents) so it wouldn't start up again on reboot.

     

    Now assuming that you want and have organized all your media (music, video, book, pdf, etc.) in your 'iTunes Media' folder:


    3) Opened up iTunes, made sure I had checked 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' in iTunes >Preferences>Advanced


    4.) Went to iTunes>File>Library and checked 'Consolidate library' (and all my files (books/pdf's) magically reappeared (got copied back) in my iTunes Media folder (with all tags and so on like they used to be)

     

    5.) Counted to ten.

     

    6.) Restarted iTunes, saw all my stuff still there.

     

    7.) Deleted iBooks for Mac (maybe wise to backup it to some external drive before), and the books in the new iBooks storage folder (that's in:

    ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)

     

    8.) Synced to my iPad, and was, yea, verily happified.

     

    For whom it helps.

     

    Message was edited by: Andy Epprecht

  • by Gilloo,

    Gilloo Gilloo Oct 26, 2013 4:50 AM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Oct 26, 2013 4:50 AM in response to Andy Epprecht

    Thanx Andy

     

    But it's impossible to delete iBooks (for me), the system dont allow it.

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 5:00 AM in response to Gilloo
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    Oct 26, 2013 5:00 AM in response to Gilloo

    @Gilloo

     

    Use AppCleaner (free from freemacsoft.net)

  • by mikebrown,

    mikebrown mikebrown Oct 26, 2013 6:13 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb
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    Oct 26, 2013 6:13 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb

    Worked for me too, Kevin. iTunes now shows my books, again. Note that Calibre 1.8 no longer intuitively networks links to iTunes. I reverted to Calibre 1.6 which still does allow one to synch the Caliber Library to Books in iTunes 11.1.2. Thanks.

  • by Gilloo,

    Gilloo Gilloo Oct 26, 2013 7:28 AM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Oct 26, 2013 7:28 AM in response to Andy Epprecht

    Sorry guys, it don't works for me !

    spent 2 hours now and I just can't to make the tab "Books" in iTunes...

    Try eveithing I imagine and nope...

    Could anyone copy an paste the string "of iTunes Music Library.xml" where the line "books" is enabled, I'm going to paste just to see if it's work to enable the tab...

    Very frustating you can trust me !

  • by Nicolas Online,

    Nicolas Online Nicolas Online Oct 26, 2013 7:43 AM in response to Garindan
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    Oct 26, 2013 7:43 AM in response to Garindan

    Let's just hope so far that Kevin's Solution doesn't break after the next few application and/or software updates.

     

    Did anyone try just moving the service file and NOT deleting iBooks (just never launching it). Does it still work that way?

     

    Too late for me as I already used appcleaner to delete it.

     

    Thanks for the feedback

  • by Julian Bashir,

    Julian Bashir Julian Bashir Oct 26, 2013 7:49 AM in response to Nicolas Online
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    Oct 26, 2013 7:49 AM in response to Nicolas Online

    Just want to add my voice of discontent with iBooks. Most of my books were PDFs from various sources which I had to spend time labelling with correct category, author, title, publication info, etc, and now I've lost all of that. I want to try the solutions offered above, but at least two members have reported that they do not regain the Books tab in iTunes. Can anyone verify this? I need to get back my lost iTunes book library, and I need to be able to see it in order to continue organizing it.

  • by Julian Bashir,

    Julian Bashir Julian Bashir Oct 26, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb
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    Oct 26, 2013 8:15 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb

    Where exactly is "that buried iBooks directory" and how does one get to it? I searched around in Finder and could not locate it. Frankly, I didn't even know what to look for... the Mac equivalent of Windows Program Files directory? Sorry if my question sounds dumb. I'm a Mac newbie.

  • by johnsong4,

    johnsong4 johnsong4 Oct 26, 2013 8:29 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb
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    Oct 26, 2013 8:29 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb

    Kevin, you are a LIFE saver.  It has worked and I have all my books back and on my ipad.  When I upgraded itunes said I had to use Ibooks so I clicked the app and only 526 of my 3000+ books only flowed through.  Now I have everything back and can choose which books I do and don't want to sync.

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 9:12 AM in response to Julian Bashir
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:12 AM in response to Julian Bashir

    @bashir

     

    That 'buried iBooks directory' is here, as written several times above:

     

    ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks)

  • by Lovetoread55,

    Lovetoread55 Lovetoread55 Oct 26, 2013 9:15 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:15 AM in response to Kevin Edgecomb

    Kevin,

     

    We followed your instructions and it worked but it is only a temporary fix. After you close out iTunes the program resorts back to the new way. You can't get to your books through iTunes again. Is there a permenant way to fix it? Please help, anyone

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 9:19 AM in response to Lovetoread55
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:19 AM in response to Lovetoread55

    @Lovetoread55

     

    it works very well on two of my Mac's. If you follow the steps exactly it will work. I followed Kevin's instructions and I figured out my steps described above worked very well too on a MacBook Pro either.

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 9:25 AM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:25 AM in response to Andy Epprecht

    @bashir

     

    ... sorry, can't tell you for Windows and if it could work there as well. Only Mac here. I didn't read your question carefully. Forgive me ;-)

  • by Lovetoread55,

    Lovetoread55 Lovetoread55 Oct 26, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Andy Epprecht
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:28 AM in response to Andy Epprecht

    We did follow the directions. We will give it another try later. Worked fine until we restarted itunes. Did it work for you when you restarted itunes?

  • by Andy Epprecht,

    Andy Epprecht Andy Epprecht Oct 26, 2013 9:32 AM in response to Lovetoread55
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    Oct 26, 2013 9:32 AM in response to Lovetoread55

    I restarted iTunes several times (approx. 10 times) since.

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