iBooks for iCloud appears in iOS 9.3 Beta

JQW · 01-11-2016, 05:57 PM

Apple have released the first beta of iOS 9.3 today to registered developers. The public beta has yet to appear, but I expect that to turn up tomorrow.

This reportedly includes a new feature called iBooks for iCloud to allow synchronisation of non-Apple purchased content to and from the cloud.

I'll be testing this as soon as the public beta appears. There's currently no indication as to when iOS 9.3 will be available for all devices.

Nate the great · 01-11-2016, 07:57 PM

Where did you read that? It's not listed on the info page.

Nate the great · 01-11-2016, 07:59 PM

Never mind. I found info on Twitter.

It's called iCloud for iBooks, and it does exist.

JTravers · 01-11-2016, 11:49 PM

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johnnyb · 01-12-2016, 09:22 AM

Fi-na-lly! Great news!

mattcurtis · 01-12-2016, 10:14 AM

Exciting. Hoping they make it available via iCloud Document Picker too (but I get the feeling that's unlikely.)

kyteflyer · 01-12-2016, 02:35 PM

I'm about as interested in this, as I was for the music things and photo things. All I see is that its a way for Apple to make you realise you need more storage. And buy it from them. Nope.

johnnyb · 01-12-2016, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I'm about as interested in this, as I was for the music things and photo things. All I see is that its a way for Apple to make you realise you need more storage. And buy it from them. Nope.

If this comes at no extra charge (like Apple Music or iTunes Match) I don't see the problem. Books are super small and plenty of books should fit into even the 5GB of space that they are giving out for free...
I really wish Amazon would compete with mich better desktop apps...
On another note: in the update is also Apple's version of flux and it seems that this may well be the first real "for the readers" update in quite some time...

kyteflyer · 01-12-2016, 08:30 PM

I just detest being locked in anywhere. So I don't use iBooks ever since they started burying the books somewhere you can't find them, and if you can, the folder names are so obfuscated you have no idea whats there, in any case... I don't mind keeping my Calibre library in dropbox, and if it ever gets larger than the space I have available, I'll move it to somewhere I have more space, like Copy or Box.

johnnyb · 01-12-2016, 09:03 PM

What I like about iBooks though is how it makes no difference between bought and brought books... Also if you want to get a book out, just drag and drop it to the desktop...

pwalker8 · 01-12-2016, 10:07 PM

I wonder if it include audible books.

I got out of the habit of using iBooks because of syncing between devices and iBooks really slowed down a lot when you have a big library. If they fixed it so iBooks is once again responsive, then I might give it a go. Hopefully, they will normalize how they handle audio books with this release (and, please Lord, let you automatically move to the next audiobook in a collection).

Dr. Drib · 01-14-2016, 08:51 AM

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tomsem · 01-14-2016, 10:50 PM

Sorry, can someone clarify what improvements to iCloud for iBooks has to do with iOS 9.3?

Syncing non-Apple books appears to be live already:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204365

But it seems to require sync with iTunes app. Ick.

pwalker8 · 01-14-2016, 11:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

Sorry, can someone clarify what improvements to iCloud for iBooks has to do with iOS 9.3?

Syncing non-Apple books appears to be live already:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204365

But it seems to require sync with iTunes app. Ick.

I would guess that it syncs between devices over iCloud rather than require you to sync via iTunes. With beta's sometimes it can be difficult to know what the final product will actually do.

johnnyb · 01-15-2016, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomsem

Sorry, can someone clarify what improvements to iCloud for iBooks has to do with iOS 9.3?

Syncing non-Apple books appears to be live already:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204365

But it seems to require sync with iTunes app. Ick.

What I like the most about this document is how Apple actually assumes that anyone seriously uses iBooks for PDFs

But yeah, this has always been possible, only now (9.3 and onwards) you will be able to upload books into iCloud and will not have to use iTunes (ick) anymore...

01-11-2016, 05:57 PM	#1
JQW Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2013 Device: Kobo Mini	iBooks for iCloud appears in iOS 9.3 Beta Apple have released the first beta of iOS 9.3 today to registered developers. The public beta has yet to appear, but I expect that to turn up tomorrow. This reportedly includes a new feature called iBooks for iCloud to allow synchronisation of non-Apple purchased content to and from the cloud. I'll be testing this as soon as the public beta appears. There's currently no indication as to when iOS 9.3 will be available for all devices.

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tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,772 Karma: 26974049 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Sorry, can someone clarify what improvements to iCloud for iBooks has to do with iOS 9.3? Syncing non-Apple books appears to be live already: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204365 But it seems to require sync with iTunes app. Ick. Last edited by tomsem; 01-14-2016 at 10:53 PM.

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01-11-2016, 07:57 PM	#2
Nate the great Sir Penguin of Edinburgh Posts: 12,375 Karma: 23555235 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: DC Metro area Device: Shake a stick plus 1	Where did you read that? It's not listed on the info page.

01-11-2016, 07:59 PM	#3
Nate the great Sir Penguin of Edinburgh Posts: 12,375 Karma: 23555235 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: DC Metro area Device: Shake a stick plus 1	Never mind. I found info on Twitter. It's called iCloud for iBooks, and it does exist.

01-12-2016, 09:22 AM	#5
johnnyb Cloud Reader Posts: 1,118 Karma: 4000066 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kindle Scribe, iPad Pro 11	Fi-na-lly! Great news!

01-12-2016, 10:14 AM	#6
mattcurtis Book Lover, Dev of Hyphen Posts: 59 Karma: 2013886 Join Date: Apr 2013 Device: iPhone (Hyphen)	Exciting. Hoping they make it available via iCloud Document Picker too (but I get the feeling that's unlikely.)

01-12-2016, 02:35 PM	#7
kyteflyer Wizard Posts: 1,844 Karma: 9547754 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Newcastle, Australia Device: iPhone 12 Mini	I'm about as interested in this, as I was for the music things and photo things. All I see is that its a way for Apple to make you realise you need more storage. And buy it from them. Nope.

01-12-2016, 08:30 PM	#9
kyteflyer Wizard Posts: 1,844 Karma: 9547754 Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Newcastle, Australia Device: iPhone 12 Mini	I just detest being locked in anywhere. So I don't use iBooks ever since they started burying the books somewhere you can't find them, and if you can, the folder names are so obfuscated you have no idea whats there, in any case... I don't mind keeping my Calibre library in dropbox, and if it ever gets larger than the space I have available, I'll move it to somewhere I have more space, like Copy or Box.

01-12-2016, 09:03 PM	#10
johnnyb Cloud Reader Posts: 1,118 Karma: 4000066 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Kindle Oasis, Kindle Scribe, iPad Pro 11	What I like about iBooks though is how it makes no difference between bought and brought books... Also if you want to get a book out, just drag and drop it to the desktop...

01-12-2016, 10:07 PM	#11
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,196 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	I wonder if it include audible books. I got out of the habit of using iBooks because of syncing between devices and iBooks really slowed down a lot when you have a big library. If they fixed it so iBooks is once again responsive, then I might give it a go. Hopefully, they will normalize how they handle audio books with this release (and, please Lord, let you automatically move to the next audiobook in a collection).

01-14-2016, 08:51 AM	#12
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