romad
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Q: iOS 9.3 messed up iBooks

OK, I'm having some major problems with iBooks since updating to iOS 9.3 on my iPad Mini 3 and iPhone 6

 

First, I can no longer add ePub books from iTunes. PDFs load fine.

 

Second, I had my iBooks sorted on the Bookshelf correctly by author (last name, first name) then alphabetically by title (if not part of a series) or series, then if in a series, by series sequence.

 

Today I went to the iBooks Store to get the latest user guides for iOS 9.3 to have on the appropriate iDevice. After getting the two books, when iBooks restarted on my iPad, my entire library was unsorted! I have several hundred books that are now a jumbled mess.

 

I tried to sort by Author using the iBooks application, but it does NOT sort correctly, but sorts incorrectly by FIRST name!

 

Is there any way to get the library sorted correctly by author last name, first name except manually?

 

What about adding ePubs to iBooks?

Posted on Mar 28, 2016 5:19 PM

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  • by romad,

    romad romad Apr 15, 2016 9:52 PM in response to David Wallace
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    Apr 15, 2016 9:52 PM in response to David Wallace

    The only one I have there is iPhone1,1_3.1.3_7E18_Restore and is dated September 2012. When I went to my iPad folder there aren't ANY files in it

  • by David Wallace,

    David Wallace David Wallace Apr 15, 2016 10:27 PM in response to romad
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    Apr 15, 2016 10:27 PM in response to romad

    Yes, I put iPhone instead of iPad for the folder name by mistake. Looks like the iPad .ipsw files are deleted from the folder now, unlike the iPhone ones. The only way is to save it from the trash when the updates are downloaded by the looks. That's what I do anyway with every update, having run IOS on the phones since version 1 and past experience with broken updates. All you can really do is delete all the books from iTunes, reload them and then restore the iPad. Works but takes a long time and you are still left with the useless version of iBooks on the iPad. With iBooks around there is no incentive for any developer to write a decent reader app anymore, and the other ones that are around are even worse than iBooks. I'll be looking at other reader hardware options when this iPad mini wears out. I have no idea why Apple has degraded iBooks over time, but from past experience my guess is that in the next IOS release the only things you'll be able to load or read with iBooks are Apple-bought books (as with Amazon and the Kindle readers) and the app is being altered to accommodate that. The pressure in 9.3 to move to cloud-based storage for the books is a hint. That works if you are in an environment where you have permanent and continuous access to a wi-fi source, but not much use if you don't - as is the case for most people outside Silicon Valley.

  • by Roanoke75,

    Roanoke75 Roanoke75 Aug 18, 2016 7:08 PM in response to romad
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    Aug 18, 2016 7:08 PM in response to romad

    It's probably too late to help the OP but if you restore your device and use the most recent iCloud backup to restart it, it should fix the problem.

     

    That's what I did.

  • by romad,

    romad romad Aug 18, 2016 8:59 PM in response to Roanoke75
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    Aug 18, 2016 8:59 PM in response to Roanoke75

    I backup to iTunes as I don't use iClod.

  • by boredumb,

    boredumb boredumb Aug 26, 2016 2:07 PM in response to David Wallace
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    Aug 26, 2016 2:07 PM in response to David Wallace

    At least, not until they find a way to charge you extra for these...after all, they are a "struggling" company...

  • by harbifromdhok,

    harbifromdhok harbifromdhok Aug 27, 2016 4:32 PM in response to romad
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    Aug 27, 2016 4:32 PM in response to romad

    nwe ios for iphone 4g?

  • by romad,

    romad romad Aug 27, 2016 4:46 PM in response to harbifromdhok
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    Aug 27, 2016 4:46 PM in response to harbifromdhok

    No such thing as an iPhone 4G.

     

    iPhone 4: last iOS is 7.1.2

    iPhone 4S: last iOS is 9.3.5 (most likely, as iOS 10 will be released next month)

  • by Vicky wants food,

    Vicky wants food Vicky wants food Sep 1, 2016 9:02 PM in response to romad
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    Sep 1, 2016 9:02 PM in response to romad

    I updated my ipad yesterday and it messed mine up too which really ****** me off. But thank god I fixed it. I got in contact with apple support and they told me wipe everything clean from my ipad which was really nerve racking so if you have anything important on it you might want to take some screenshots. I had everything backed up on iclouds before I updated my ipad so I just reset and wiped everything and my bookshelf went back to normal--keep in mind that everything you do after your last backup will be lost. If you backed up your ipad after you reset it then I don't know what you would have to do. I hope this helped.

  • by romad,

    romad romad Sep 1, 2016 10:18 PM in response to Vicky wants food
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    Sep 1, 2016 10:18 PM in response to Vicky wants food

    No, you (as have just about everyone else) have misunderstood the problem. I have one MAJOR problem and one relatively minor problem. Remember this is with Mac OS 10.8.5. It has nothing to do with iClod.

     

    1. The MAJOR problem is that I can no longer add NON-APPLE SOURCED DRM-free ePUBs to iBooks on my iPad via syncing with iTunes over the USB cable. In order to get NON-APPLE SOURCED DRM-free ePubs into iBooks on my iPad, I am limited to sending them by email.

     

    The following WILL sync just fine:

     

    a. ANY ePub from Apple, be it manuals from their support website, or from the iBookStore. This includes BOTH ePubs with DRM  and DRM-free ePubs

    b. PDFs from ANY source.

     

    2. The other problem is that iOS totally screwed up my very carefully manually sorted books on my iPad. This sorting of about 950+ books (both ePub and PDF) had lasted 6 years until iOS 9.3 screwed it up.

     

    However, I may have FINALLY found an answer: replace iBooks completely with the app MapleRead. If this new app works as I hope it does, I will be able to remove iBooks from my iPad once I install iOS 10.

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