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I know how to go the other way 'round (just drag), but how do I transfer an Apple-purchased book (for example) from iBooks to Calibre? I like to use Calibre as my central repository for all my eBooks, and I use it as a bridge to GoodReads, which I use as my central repository for all my books (e- and otherwise).
iBooks seems to ignore outbound drags to Calibre. And I haven't had any luck dragging the source .epub folder/book from the iBooks/Books folder to Calibre, or adding it directly from there (probably because it's a folder and not a file?). Any ideas, folks? Ed |
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Give up and don't buy ebooks from Apple ever again?
You seem to have hit on the problem. ![]() Apple doesn't like letting anyone else get their hands on the content they sell. It's by far the most locked down ecosystem in every respect. |
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Lord Alfred Tennyson put it this way - Come into the garden Maud
If only one could... write a poem like that. BR |
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Several years ago, I found a program that would allow you to open your device backups made by iTunes and copy items out of it, including ebooks. You might look around and see if such a thing is still around. I think the one I used was called iPhone Backup Extractor. I've pretty much moved to the Android OS since, so I can't say if it is still available.
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I think I found a (partial) solution!
If you drag a book from the iBooks window to a folder in the Finder, it creates a properly named .epub file there, which you can then drag directly to Calibre! For DRM-free books, that's all that's required. DRM'ed ebooks are still beyond me, at the moment, but at least both kinds will show up in Calibre! And I can use the GoodReads plug-in to track the books on GoodReads as well! Hope that helps someone else. Ed |
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I used an extractor (possibly the Backup Extractor, but not sure) to get the books off my 4s but I couldn't access any of the DRM'ed books. At the time I had a Dell tablet and found it ridiculous the amount of money I paid for all the books through Apple and I didn't really have access to them outside of my phone.
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Finder is the name of the file manager (e.g. Windows Explorer) in Macs. Anyway, there's no iBooks for Windows and Apple removed books support from iTunes a while back.
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