No text highlighting of PDF's in iBooks?

Hi Brighton,

Actually millions seeing iBook & PDF stuff is GLOBAL. But because you can't highlight then yes your right, it is tens of thousands of unhappy customers who gave up.

The work around:

Don't use iBooks for anything, that is easy.

There are lots of apps in the store. My favourites are Foxit Reader or Good Reader, both are excellent also Kindle will highlight PDFs and they have lots of books too.

I won't use iBooks ever because if you use ibooks as the pdf viewer on the ipad (as in Safari generated PDFs) it goes into one big black hole and it is difficult to get them out of the folder onto the PC also you can't highlight stuff. When you are in iTunes (PC) Foxit and Good Reader have folders where you can easily add and remove books at will, unfortunately iBooks does not do follow suit. How ever you could put and save your PDFs to iCloud and Dropbox and then you can easily get those files and move them about.

Hats off to Apple with Safari, they do an excellent job using the reader view, it really is awesome and use it all the time to generate PDFs from websites. I have not personally come across any Chrome, Firefox and Explorer extentions/plugins that come close to Safari. Thank you Apple on this one.

Hopefully they fix iBooks and make it user friendly

So, let me get this straight? Apple took away a key functionality from one of my favorite apps, so that I would be forced to use a third party app with no iCloud support? Whose ideas was this? For those of us who have been highlighting and making notes in iBooks this blows! I am super ****** about this.

Here is the place for suggestions:

*Feedback*

"Use the form below to send us your comments. We read all feedback carefully, but please note that we cannot respond to the comments you submit."

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

We can complain about Apple's business decisions, but these discussions are user to user talk about possible solutions.

R

I also can not understand this! It is mind blowing that Apple would remove such a feature. It suddenly makes iBooks totally useless. I have actually stopped buy books through iBooks the last year just due to this matter. Previous I used iBooks as my directory of references and knowledge building. Now I’m buying most of my books out of Amazon Kindle ... and and have to find a better way to manage my PDFs, usually papers and articles I study.

It could have been so fantastic having everything on one platform synced to your Apple ID. ... but now? ... it moves you away from the Apple ID use and my connection to Apple. Also being asked to fill out a form to complain about it, just makes me want to leave. I’m actually sad! :-|

*Feedback*

"Use the form below to send us your comments. We read all feedback carefully, but please note that we cannot respond to the comments you submit."

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

There is an app for that.

GoodReader

-- With GoodReader on your iPad/iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures.

-- sync with Dropbox, OneDrive, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP or SFTP server

-- The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments ("sticky notes"), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.

http://www.goodiware.com/

PDF Expert – the PDF handling app for the iPad. "It allows you to markup documents with highlights and handwriting, insert text and stamps, sign and even merge PDFs."

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdf-expert-5-fill-forms-annotate/id743974925?mt= 8

iAnnotate – turns your tablet into a world-class productivity tool for reading, marking up, and sharing PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files, and images. Has a secure document edition designed for corporations.

http://www.branchfire.com/iannotate/

Documents 5
"Read, listen, view, annotate almost anything you want on your iPad and iPhone. Files, documents, books, any content is at home in Documents by Readdle."

"Copy Documents from Mac or PC"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/documents-5-file-manager-pdf-reader-and-browser/ id364901807?mt=8