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Q: iBooks problem fixed in 9.3.2?

Well, was it? This is the problem that was introduced with iOS 9.3 where you may no longer add NON-Apple sourced ePubs to iBooks. Non-Apple PDFs added just fine in 9.3 and 9.3.1, do they still do so in 9.3.2 or is iBooks now limited to Apple-sourced only PDFs also?

Posted on May 19, 2016 11:19 AM

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Q: iBooks problem fixed in 9.3.2?

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  • by andrea345,

    andrea345 andrea345 May 19, 2016 8:23 PM in response to romad
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    May 19, 2016 8:23 PM in response to romad

    I was able to add new ePub, but they didn't fix my missing 170+ collection grouping I had to rebuild from scratch after one of their earlier upgrades.  And now the backlight color is changing - by itself - from night view to day (black to beige).  It is also still taking a hellishly long time to load a book.  It is still losing its place as to where it was last.  Apparently many of my highlights are gone, so I'm having to rebuild those.

     

    No idea about the apple sourced PDFs b/c I still have mine and they seem to be loading fine.

  • by romad,

    romad romad May 19, 2016 8:34 PM in response to andrea345
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    May 19, 2016 8:34 PM in response to andrea345

    So you were able to add a NON-APPLE sourced ePub to your iBooks Library in iTunes and then when you synced your iDevice, the ePub was actually transferred to the iDevice? I also have noticed that when I want to read a book, it takes about 10 seconds before the book opens. Have you tried loading a NON-Apple-sourced PDF? I get the impression that Apple wants to no longer allow the loading of books from anywhere else into iBooks.

  • by andrea345,

    andrea345 andrea345 May 19, 2016 9:00 PM in response to romad
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    May 19, 2016 9:00 PM in response to romad

    I'm not syncing to my iTunes library because it lost its mind and its location, so I have to rebuild that as well.  No, I'm loading from email and so I just checked the PDF and that works too.  But I've only tested thru email, not iTunes - which turned to !#$% somewhere along the line.  I dunno... I can't back up there now after 9.3 because it'll wipe all my new additions, my music (it can't find) ... all of it out, so I have to rebuild that from scratch.

     

    And yeah, the Apple ePub is its own format, but Calibre will convert.  The apple ePub is fat Fat FAT, so ***** down space.  I'd strip it just to get rid of the bytes I don't give a hoot about.

  • by romad,

    romad romad May 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to andrea345
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    May 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to andrea345

    Even though Steve Jobs declared Apple to be "DRM Free", Apple is again using DRM on its media.