I am on iPad OS 16.1 Beta 4 and looks like they fixed the buttons at the top always staying on. However, full screen utilization is still not an option at least on the iPad. Maybe iOS?
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Books App Gets Redesign in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16
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Seems that they removed the functionality to bulk export your highlights from a book.
I can only export them one by one by swiping left.
Or more than one by the rather unintuitive tap+hold+tap others to add to selection+drag&drop touch gestures - for which I still have to tap every single highlight manually.
Way to position your iPad devices as studying tools, Apple!
I can only export them one by one by swiping left.
Or more than one by the rather unintuitive tap+hold+tap others to add to selection+drag&drop touch gestures - for which I still have to tap every single highlight manually.
Way to position your iPad devices as studying tools, Apple!
I agree
i *hate* that the page just slides across now. I *hate* it. Hate is a strong word, I know, but I *hate* it. It’s awful.
Yup, I agree with that sentiment completely. That change alone made me ditch Apple Books and switch to Kindle, which, ironically, does have the nice page turning animations now.
I shall be joining you, I think. When I was attempting to read earlier today, it repeatedly broke my concentration and took me out of the book. The change is highly distracting and annoying, especially when reading fiction. Novels now feel like work documents. Awful.
Yup, it's a horrible, horrible change. I don't know what Apple's designers were thinking. I ditched Apple Books less than a week after I installed the first beta in June, and haven't looked back since.
As an added bonus, the Kindle app also makes much better use of the screen. I never realized how appallingly wide the margins in Apple Books were until I tried the Kindle app. I think someone else in this thread shared some examples a few posts back.
I don't miss the page-turning animation.
I used to be an early adopter of ebook reading devices that didn't have it either and I never looked back.
I think the animation is kind of cumbersome and makes the switching pages feel slow.
I want to have a page switching animation that feels faster and "cleaner" in design.
I don't think a first-party (or any) reading application should to have dozen ways of animating page turns/switches.
That said...
I don't get why they took that animation away from the users that like it.
I know even without this thread, there's lots of people out there that do prefer this little "skeuomorphic" cue.
Apple are needlessly alienating part of their user base by taking it (at least having the option) away from them.
It's even more baffling they're doing it in an app that's design to generate additional media sales.
And it, honestly, makes for an absurdly incongruous design. I mean...
Did they even once look at the screenshots they use to promote the Books app on their website?
Apple went to great lengths to depict the individual books in a user's library as skeumorphic previews.
With the classic features of a physical hardcover book: its edges, covers, spine and groove/joint.
When they could have opted for a flatter, more digital design instead, that doesn't have these ornaments.
That's what makes it all the more baffling why they took away the page-turning animation (at least as an option).
I used to be an early adopter of ebook reading devices that didn't have it either and I never looked back.
I think the animation is kind of cumbersome and makes the switching pages feel slow.
I want to have a page switching animation that feels faster and "cleaner" in design.
I don't think a first-party (or any) reading application should to have dozen ways of animating page turns/switches.
That said...
I don't get why they took that animation away from the users that like it.
I know even without this thread, there's lots of people out there that do prefer this little "skeuomorphic" cue.
Apple are needlessly alienating part of their user base by taking it (at least having the option) away from them.
It's even more baffling they're doing it in an app that's design to generate additional media sales.
And it, honestly, makes for an absurdly incongruous design. I mean...
Did they even once look at the screenshots they use to promote the Books app on their website?
Apple went to great lengths to depict the individual books in a user's library as skeumorphic previews.
With the classic features of a physical hardcover book: its edges, covers, spine and groove/joint.
When they could have opted for a flatter, more digital design instead, that doesn't have these ornaments.
That's what makes it all the more baffling why they took away the page-turning animation (at least as an option).
I just sent feedback to Apple, asking that we can switch the page-turn back on or, at an absolute minimum, switch off the slide animation
I have damaged retinas and the slide makes my eyes blurry. It actively makes it harder for me to read, in addition to being altogether hideous.
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They tried to get rid of it on the big re-design of iOS 7 but brought it back due to outcries. I think the guy who's overseeing design at Apple hates it, for which he's absolutely wrong.
I still leave my iPad at iOS 15 for this reason. Don't want to go Kindle but if I must I will.
Double tapping the screen to set a bookmark doesn’t work anymore in iOS 16.2
NICE. I was constantly accidentally setting a bookmark when scrolling in vertical scroll mode. Drove me insane. So I'm happy to see this go, lol.
Oh hey @jwolf6589 - you'll be happy to know I couldn't avoid the iPads anymore. I got me an iPad Air 5 on heavy discount - so much easier to read on that than my iPhone/MacBook. 
Them iPads are just too good.
Them iPads are just too good.
I use the Mini 6 and this combined with the new iPad OS make reading much more enjoyable. Sure it does not have the battery life of the Kindle but thats okay as it can do far more.Oh hey @jwolf6589 - you'll be happy to know I couldn't avoid the iPads anymore. I got me an iPad Air 5 on heavy discount - so much easier to read on that than my iPhone/MacBook.