missing books as media kind
After the last update I couldn't find the Books tab under media kind. I use it a lot. How do I view books and manage what is in books?
iPod touch, iOS 11.0.1
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Management of apps, books, and tones has been removed from iTunes 12.7. See Changes in the new iTunes - Apple Support for details. The intention is clearly that management of these generally takes place on the device.
See the Manually add items from your computer section of Manually manage content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using iTunes - Apple Support for the control that remains. This can be used to copy apps, ePubs, iBooks, PDFs, and tones from your computer to your device. The File Sharing feature for copying data between apps and the computer is still there. You can also use iCloud Drive, or Dropbox to move content to and from the device.
A long time criticism of iTunes, at least from some quarters, is that has been that it has become bloated. Perhaps this is an attempt to address that. I let both my iOS devices update automatically when there is an updated app, and I'm not interested in hanging on to old apps that a developer has withdrawn, nor do I need to rearrange my apps often, so while the change is drastic, I don't think it really affects me much. I'm more irritated by the changes to iTunes U and iBooks in iTunes for Windows.
32-bit apps are not supported in iOS 11. Any data associated with such apps is lost unless the developer decides to supply an upgrade, and perhaps even then. For those yet to update to iOS 11 any incompatible apps should show under Settings > General > Applications > App Compatibility.
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