I don't trust any of my data to one exclusive source (including Apple). My primary library I keep in Calibre. iBooks is secondary. iBooks is my primary reader on my iPad but Calibre can no longer see my iPad with the introduction of Mavericks. Is there a work around? Is apple planning of fixing this?
I believe so. I have therefore downloaded Marvin from the apps store. It seems to be a good, non-proprietary ebook reader. A further advantage of Marvin is that one can adjust not only the brightness of the evader screen, but also the warmth. So far I have been syncing between Calibre and Marvin via Dropbox.
The failure of iBooks to sync with Calibre is inconvenient but it has led me to start to explore interesting alternatives to Apple's default apps.
Downloaded the free Marvin to try in out. Down loaded dropbox to try it.
This gives me a work around.
Still shame on Apple for making certain I do not buy books from them and making things more difficult.
I used the Marvin app and plug in. Converted my library to run on Marvin. Moved iBooks on my devices to a sub folder. Removed iBooks from the dock since I no longer use it with any frequency. Apple op manuals only.
And now that I am converted apple will have to do something wonderful to iBooks to make me go through the effort to convert back.
There is a Calibre - Marvin plug-in. So you can import the books from Calibre in Marvin.
There's nothing for Apple to fix.
Calibre is a third party app, it's their responsibility to update and fix their app.
So then the recommended advice would be to convert everything away from iBooks to something not so proprietary.
Sorry, "evader" screen should read "reader" (not sure why the iPad does not like the word "reader").
How do I sync my iBooks library with Calibre
