I want to save memory by deleting books I don't ever intend to read? Or reread.
The intent is to save space on my 16GB iPad mini 2, and don't want to take up space in the cloud either.
iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), iMac 21.5, 2.9GHZ, I5 quad proc.
When you open up iBooks and you're looking at your bookshelf you should see a button probably to the top right that says select. Tap select and you will be able to tap on each book that you no longer want. After all the books that you don't want to have the on the ipad have a blue check mark on them tap the delete button.
You can delete them from the bookshelf in your iPad's iBooks app, but you can't permanently delete them from your purchase history, all you can do is hide them from the cloud via your computer's iTunes (or iBooks app if using an up-to-date Mac) : Hide and unhide purchases in the iTunes Store - Apple Support
They don't take up any of your iCloud allowance, no iTunes download does (it's things such as your documents/files in your apps, photos etc, that use your iCloud allowance) -
This was a step in the right direction, but I want to delete them from my iBook account completely!!
When I take the steps you were nice enough to tell me about, it just is a form of movement from the Bookshelf view to the cloud.
If I can delete them then from the iCloud that might achieve what I am trying to accomplish. I'll have study that idea next.
Thanks for the info.
enumscrat
Your welcome, but as King_Penguin said you can't permanently delete them from your purchase history and they don't take up any iCloud space. If you still see a version on your device with a cloud in the corner you can turn on "hide iCloud books" and then you won't see them on the device.
So when I leave this earth who gets them Apple? (You don't have to answer this, I think we can all figure this out! LOL!
I am not Apple, I'm a fellow user.
The books, and anything else that you download from the store, and tied to you account - you've bought is a licence to have them on your account.
How do I delete unwanted books?
