Q: How can I print (or export) a list of the books in iBooks?
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Aug 8, 2016 12:33 PMby Lindsay_B.,Hi, Krasna!
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. The information you provided tells me you're wanting to know how you can keep track of your iBooks purchases. I have a lot of iBooks myself, so I definitely understand wanting to keep track of them all--I'd be happy to help!While there isn't a way for you to export a list of all your books from the iBooks app, you can see all your books within the app itself. On a Mac, you have a several options to viewing your iBooks, all listed across the top center of the app.
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Under the All Books section, you will see all of your books and their covers. A cloud icon in the upper right corner means you have purchased the book, but it is not downloaded to your device.
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Under the Collections section, you will have the option to search through All your iBook purchases as well as different categories such as Books, PDFs, and Current (which displays iBooks you are currently reading).
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The Authors section lets you see all of your iBooks, sorted by author.
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The Categories section lists all of your iBooks by category, such as Action & Adventure, Fantasy, or Biographies.
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Finally, the List section will display all of your iBooks, alphabetically, in a list format. You'll also be able to see the title, author, category, collection, last read date, date added, size, and whether it's downloaded to your device or still in the cloud. This is likely the view you'd be most interested in to keep track of what iBooks you already own.
You can take screenshots of the list of books you have and you can print that if you would like a printed list of books you own. You can find out how to take a screenshot here:
How to take a screenshot on your Mac - Apple Support
You can get some additional information on utilizing iBooks by checking out the following article: About iBooks
Happy reading!
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Aug 21, 2016 3:12 PMby G Michael Otto,Screenshot? Thats an awful kludge! I've got over 2,000 books and pdfs in my library. At least a printed list could be saved as a txt file or a pdf that you could copy/paste into something.
I'm guessing this was a glaring oversight in the design process of the software which is getting really long in the tooth, hasn't been touched in over a year.
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Aug 28, 2016 8:55 PMby Krasna,Lindsay, I appreciate the time you took to respond and all the details you offered. I already, however, know how to use iBooks, and I know how to take screenshots, and these are not what I asked about. So, the answer to my question, apparently, is simply "no." Bummer. I truly don't understand why I can't simply have a sortable list of my own books--or at least a list of ISBN codes so I can use another app to compile such a list. To be fair, I can't export a list of my books on Kindle, either--but then, I don't expect great things from Amazon as I do from Apple. Krasna
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Aug 29, 2016 9:53 AMby Vetri_pink,Hi Krasna,
i have done printing the list of the books in iBook via iTunes running on windows 7.the snapshots are attached
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if you not have windows pc simply sign in the your windows friend user.
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Aug 29, 2016 9:55 AMby G Michael Otto,It’s a lot of reaching around behind your back to scratch your nose……but here it is:
This involves a mobile (iOS) device and a computer. It assumes that the iBooks library has been synced with the mobile device iBooks.
- Connect iOS device to computer and open iTunes
- Click on the Device
- On the left side click on the device so you see the content
- Below the list of things under the device there is another list “On My Device”
- Select Books in that list
- On the computer click on File>Print
- Select Song List instead of CD Insert — gives you Title and Author
- In the print Dialog Box under PDF select Save As PDF
- Print the PDF
IF, however the objective is to get at the ISBN this won’t give you the ISBN
You could then:
- Convert the PDF to Excel
- Open the Excel File Copy the column with the Titles in it and use one of the ISBN lookup tools to get and then add the ISBN
IF, you’re trying to get them into eatyourbooks.com that should let you add by Title.
Calibre would spit out a catalog listing with the ISBN, but you have to get the books into it first and I’ve not tried importing the books with their weird obfuscated names from the iBooks library.
Hope this is helpful.
Mike
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Aug 29, 2016 1:13 PMby Krasna,Mike,
This looks very helpful. Now all I have to do is find someone with a PC.
No, the ISBN idea was another workaround and would only keep me from retyping the whole list.
The problem isn't capturing it once, it's keeping it up to date. Once I get it into a pdf, I can "unpdf" it. Ideally, of course, I'd like to consolidate my iTunes and kindle lists so I can see everything at once. I'd have thought someone would write an app for doing this by now!
Anyway, thanks for your creativity. It might take a while to find a PC to do it on, though.
Also, do I need the iOS device? Why couldn't I just sign into my iTunes account from that PC and do from there? (This may be an ignorant question. I know almost nothing about Windows).
