But it shouldn’t be this way tagging is a basic operation that should be available for all media files. Add e-books and paper books to your book inventory app. You'll now be shown a list of all the collections you have created in iBooks. Tap on the titles you'd like to move to a different collection and then tap the Move button at the top. Tap on the Edit button in the upper left hand corner of the main bookshelf. Those who have a lot of ebooks, and who don’t buy them from Apple, know that they can tag their books in Calibre before adding them to iBooks. Launch iBooks from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. Unlike in iTunes, where you can turn off “iTunes in the cloud,” you can’t deactivate this in iBooks.
There’s no logic to this at all, unless it has to do with the fact that some books can stay in the cloud (see above two books have cloud icons on their corners), and changed tags could confuse things. I need to pay some poor starving student to control my TBR. When on the Store page, to come back to your iBooks app, simply click on the Library button. Once you’ve added your PDFs to iBooks, you can easily view and organize them by visiting the Collections tab. The crappness of the kindle app is the reason I use iBooks for the most part and only use kindle when I can’t buy in epub or only on super sale on amazon. Since your ebooks are more-or-less hidden, you can’t even easily take them out of iBooks and tag them with other apps.Īpple lets you change almost any tags for other media files in iTunes only books have these limits. I try and organize in goodreads, but it is hard to keep up when I click on a lot of freebies. It’s actually ridiculous that Apple doesn’t let you do this. You can’t change “categories” – or genres – which are often different from what you use to organize your books.
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You can’t change titles, which you might want to shorten. In this lesson from the full tutorial on the Books App for iPad, iPhone & Mac see how to organize your library of eBooks and Audiobooks. You can’t change the author’s name – which you might want to do to display authors in last name, first name order. If you choose Manually, touch and hold a book cover, then drag it to the position you want. Choose Recent, Title, Author, or Manually. Tap Library, then scroll down and tap the word that appears next to Sort or Sort By. You could no longer edit the metadata of your ebooks. Choose how the books in your library are sorted and appear. When Apple introduced the iBooks app, and moved ebooks from iTunes, it introduced an annoying constraint.