Apple should just cede the territory once and for all to Kindle, and stick to video.

(Just as well, I suppose, because I really don’t feel like spending months editing the metada of 600 EPUB files.) Anyway, iBooks/Apple Books has sucked since very early on, and it still sucks. Earlier versions of iBooks let the owner alter the file metadata, but recent versions do not. Some titles are sorted by a, an, or the, while some are correctly sorted by the first word after the article. Title sorts show the same sort of nonsensical arrangement. In fact, the Apple Books author sort of titles by some prolific authors lists half their titles under their last name and half under their first name. For a decade or more half my authors have been sorted by last name, the other half by last name. Until Apple Books is capable of doing a simple author or title sort correctly, none of the rest matters.

Pre-Orders, when they ship, will get stuck in this weird mode where it will only show me the preview and the “buy now” button even though I already paid. Between iPad and Mac seems reliable, phone is a crap shoot (all devices on latest 16.1 betas) I still occasionally have issues with syncing, even epubs i bought from the bookstore vs. They disappeared and haven’t reappeared even in 16.1 betas. And I wish you could name a theme and have it sync to all devices.Īlso I could’ve sworn I saw a setting for showing real page numbers but apparently Apple added that awhile ago and it’s only if the epub supports it.īriefly way back in early iOS 16 betas there were a bunch of extra shortcut actions for books that were really nice. I used that quite a bit and still miss after many months of beta use.īeing able to tap a theme and switch the settings in one go is nice, if (as is typcial for Apple) you like Apple’s defaults, but it’s a lot more taps to customize. You used to be able to set the brightness while reading separately from the system brightness.

Put book on kindle calibre 2018