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iBooks update available now
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Really??? All I see in the app store from the iPad is version 1.0.1
Is it only showing up from iTunes?Really??? All I see in the app store from the iPad is version 1.0.1
Yes it is there. I have updated my ipad and iphone w/ ibooks 1.1
It's running slow for me, larger PDF's seem to lock the app up. I'm resetting the iPad to see if that fixes it.
I think GoodReader is still better. iBooks offers nothing special, except brightness control and bookmarks.
Yeah, but it's highly unlikely you are going to read a big PDF on your iPhone/iPod Touch, right?
I'm looking forward to installing this later tonight. I have plenty of ebooks in PDF format that become garbled upon conversion to html/epub, etc.
Hopefully we'll be able to tag a PDF to have it appear under "Books" and not "PDFs" in iBooks.
This probably won't replace GoodReader (entirely), but it'll allow me to load up my PDF ebook collection...we'll see if it can handle textbooks nicely. GoodReader lets me send my pdfs to iAnnotate, so I'm not sure I'll move all my textbooks over to iBooks just yet, unless iBooks miraculously has "open in" capabilities, which I doubt it does.
Hopefully we'll be able to tag a PDF to have it appear under "Books" and not "PDFs" in iBooks.
This probably won't replace GoodReader (entirely), but it'll allow me to load up my PDF ebook collection...we'll see if it can handle textbooks nicely. GoodReader lets me send my pdfs to iAnnotate, so I'm not sure I'll move all my textbooks over to iBooks just yet, unless iBooks miraculously has "open in" capabilities, which I doubt it does.
For some reason, iBooks 1.1 won't be updated on my iPad after the sync with iTunes(9.2) on my MBP 13"
In my iTunes App section, iBooks is 1.1 per the Info tab, but on my iPad, iBooks still has the OLD interface. There is NO PDF tab on it!
I did a hard shut off and restart by simultaneously pressing home and wake button, deleted iBooks from iTunes, and then reinstalled, still no go. What's wrong?
In my iTunes App section, iBooks is 1.1 per the Info tab, but on my iPad, iBooks still has the OLD interface. There is NO PDF tab on it!
I did a hard shut off and restart by simultaneously pressing home and wake button, deleted iBooks from iTunes, and then reinstalled, still no go. What's wrong?
For some reason, iBooks 1.1 won't be updated on my iPad after the sync with iTunes(9.2) on my MBP 13"
In my iTunes App section, iBooks is 1.1 per the Info tab, but on my iPad, iBooks still has the OLD interface. There is NO PDF tab on it!
I did a hard shut off and restart by simultaneously pressing home and wake button, deleted iBooks from iTunes, and then reinstalled, still no go. What's wrong?
The PDF tab does not show up until you upload the first PDF to your ipad. Try dragging a PDF to itunes and syncing it up.
For some reason, iBooks 1.1 won't be updated on my iPad after the sync with iTunes(9.2) on my MBP 13"
In my iTunes App section, iBooks is 1.1 per the Info tab, but on my iPad, iBooks still has the OLD interface. There is NO PDF tab on it!
I did a hard shut off and restart by simultaneously pressing home and wake button, deleted iBooks from iTunes, and then reinstalled, still no go. What's wrong?
Once you add a PDF the tab appears. It does run slowly though.
Yes, the PDF tab showed up, after I dragged some PDF files into the Book section of iTunes 9.2!
Thanks, guys, for the help!
In the meantime, it does NOT allow me to drop a folder with PDF files in it into the Book category in iTunes. It ONLY allows me to drop INDIVIDUAL PDF files into the Book category in iTunes.
Is there any way to drop a FOLDER containing PDF files into the Book category of iTunes?
Thanks.
Thanks, guys, for the help!
In the meantime, it does NOT allow me to drop a folder with PDF files in it into the Book category in iTunes. It ONLY allows me to drop INDIVIDUAL PDF files into the Book category in iTunes.
Is there any way to drop a FOLDER containing PDF files into the Book category of iTunes?
Thanks.
Not that I can find. I tried several different methods and none of them worked. Honestly, since iBooks doesn't allow for intelligent sorting and managing of PDFs, I think I'm going to stay in Goodreader for now.
Same here. I can't seem to get the PDFs from Safari to iBooks.
Edit: Got them into iBooks using iTunes. But no cover art! I wish iTunes could assign any cover art you like to PDFs.
It seems more than a little ridiculous to me that Apple would allow you to save PDFs from Mail but not from Safari.
You would think people would encounter PDFs more when they are browsing the web. So basically I either need to use iTunes or email the PDFs to myself to get them on my iPad..... Grrrr!It seems more than a little ridiculous to me that Apple would allow you to save PDFs from Mail but not from Safari.
I hope they fix this with an update soon, along with album art for PDFs
Didn't see this mentioned, but you can now move and organize books on your bookshelf
I was able to organize books before the update, but glad it works for you now.
Upgraded iBooks and lost dictionary
Arrgh, I lost my dictionary too