Thread: Calibre + iBooks under Mavericks
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Old 09-28-2014, 03:26 PM   #28
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Originally Posted by HowardBrazee View Post
I'm not figuring this out. When I buy books, I want them in Calibre first. When I buy a book from Amazon or B&N, I can open the book in their readers, find the book on my Mac, and then drag that book to Calibre. I avoid buying books from Apple because I haven't figured out how to do this. But I have a book I bought. I found the directory where the book exists, but the .epub is a folder, not a file. I could read it using the iBook app, but expect I won't, as I decide what to read next by looking at Calibre. (I have 4 books going using 4 different readers).
That is precisely the problem with figuring out how to do this with Apple books... because there is no way.

Sorry.

That folder is an unzipped ebook, so you *should* be able to read it with a text editor and even rename and rebuild the fragments into an ebook, but this is an Apple book so the real problem will be the DRM.
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