Because of this I will upgrade to IOS 16 first to test out the new books features. If I don't like the changes I will delay upgrading to iPad OS 16 because thats where I mostly read my books.
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Books App Gets Redesign in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16
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The beauty of it was that it offered instant, intuitive, and natural feedback. Just like we used to have when video controls had button shapes larger than your fingertip, which used to allow instant feedback about whether the press was recognized or not. Now we’re stuck with tiny buttonless tap “buttons” that don’t always take the first time, and maybe now less assuring page turn cues. Way to go Apple.
Finally, no more the option to disable justified text!
As ‘book-like’ as that was, it was a disaster in its default, automated form – and made for a difficult reading experience. I submitted feedback a while ago and it looks like they took a closer look at the typography settings 👍
As ‘book-like’ as that was, it was a disaster in its default, automated form – and made for a difficult reading experience. I submitted feedback a while ago and it looks like they took a closer look at the typography settings 👍
Yeah, first thing I did was submit feedback. I hope many others do as well.
Oh weird. I do see the percentage of book completed when I tap that menu, but no page number totals.
I do really miss the pages left in chapter and total pages of the book. And the animation.. not a fan at all, especially when reading in landscape with 2 pages (columns) visible.
I was wondering that and checked a few different books, including ones I've purchased in Books. On older devices they show the pages left in chapter.
Interestingly on macOS Ventura there are still some older controls for fonts and pages remaining in chapters is still there.
The percentage is in the menu, but the number of pages left in the chapter appears at the very top of the screen, right below the notch. Sometimes it takes a moment or two to come up.
I haven't found a way to see the total number of pages in the book while reading, although it's shown at the top of the table of contents that appears after you tap on the Contents menu. You can also tap-and-hold and swipe on that button to scrub through the book to get to a specific page instead of opening the table of contents.
I liked the page turning animation. It's probably one of the few skeuomorphic animations I like. *shrug* Now it just looks wrong. Very wrong...
Looks like a website to download eBooks you don't own. If you want to download from there morally (which I recommend), you can purchase the eBook on Apple Books and then download it from 3lib if you want to look at it somewhere other than an Apple device.
It's about time. Long overdue.
Books will never replace my Kindle and will usually only be used on my iPhone in a pinch.
Books will never replace my Kindle and will usually only be used on my iPhone in a pinch.
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My goodness, now I see that on my iPad lol.
A bit odd on iPad with the 2 page / column view now being treated as 1 page (based on page number at the bottom), but the page count at the top is treating the 2 columns as 2 pages.
Which Nook device(s) have that red-on-black option? It sounds promising (I do most of my reading before bed), but there doesn’t appear much online about it after searching.
Thanks in advance!
And Apple strikes again... The infinite ways iTunes and Books teams have managed to make their respective products worst, more difficult to use and unintuitive over, and over, and over again through the years is just perplexing. Is it about job security? Are they constantly being pushed to "to do something different we did last time" just for the sake of it? ["Nah... we are the smart pants here... those users must adopt to whatever changes we the geniuses will inflict on them"]
I have the same issues, combining ICloud with IBooks was a bust, books randomly disappear, or just stop appearing in their previous location.
Also ICloud should give you all your books as a file in the Files app, with original name. iCloud and IBook integration is a mess.
I think you can turn off this in settings. You can decide which apps use iCloud or not.
For me I find iCloud to be nothing but a virus. It's not bug free enough to not lose stuff (typical Apple software quality control these days). And when your iCloud is full then good luck, it basically kills any app using it. And even if it did work properly, it's not big enough to actually store all your stuff without paying a mortgage sized subscription. Whereas my built in phone's drive works perfectly fine, and has heaps of space, and I can backup to my laptop just fine, and backup my laptop just fine to a non-iCloud service or external drive and physically store offsite.
Seriously, you're blaming the government for Apple's gross incompetency, complacency, and Walled Garden secrecy???!!! WTAF.
They're talking about using ONE library to maintain their collection, not having half their books in Apple Books library and half in Kindle library.
Additionally, Kindle metadata tagging is non-existent for non-Kindle purchased books, compared to Apple Books – although Apple seem to have gimped it down more in recent macOS's, unfortunately.