How can I print (or export) a list of the books in iBooks?

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.

1. 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.

2. 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).

3. The Authors section lets you see all of your iBooks, sorted by author.

4. The Categories section lists all of your iBooks by category, such as Action & Adventure, Fantasy, or Biographies.

5. 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!

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.

1. Connect iOS device to computer and open iTunes
2. Click on the Device
3. On the left side click on the device so you see the content
4. Below the list of things under the device there is another list “On My Device”
5. Select Books in that list
6. On the computer click on File>Print
7. Select Song List instead of CD Insert — gives you Title and Author
8. In the print Dialog Box under PDF select Save As PDF
9. Print the PDF

IF, however the objective is to get at the ISBN this won’t give you the ISBN

You could then:

1. Convert the PDF to Excel
2. 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

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.

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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Krasna wrote:

I don't want to print the books themselves, just a list of all the books I own. I'd rather print the list directly from iBooks, but it would also work to export the list to pages or numbers and print from there.

Krasna wrote:

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!

Hi,

See my answer in this thread.

Krasna-

I;m getting close to the solution to our dilemma.....stay tuned.

Mike

Work around. Work around. Work Around. Apple. It's all about the Work Arounds because they don't really want to help you. They want your money. And they don't want you to be able to see how much you are wasting. Same as every tech company. No longer special.

Typical Apple. Make it opaque and confusing as possible so you can't see how much you are wasting on a yearly basis. Apple used to be special. Now, it's not. Just like all the rest. meh.