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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Pretty much. I have only converted one iBook to ePub. It was the Swift Programming Language manual, and I suspect that it was an abnormality (e.g. no DRM, which is atypical for ebooks).
For what it's worth, the process looked like this:
- Find where the books are stored. (They're stored in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books.)
- Figure out which cryptic file name corresponded to the book. (Easy in my case, since I only had one book.)
- Compress the contents of the directory using zip, ensuring the extension was epub.
- Import the book into Calibre.
I wouldn't count on this working for any old ebook, particularly purchased ebooks, since this manual was borderline promotional material for a new technology that Apple was introducing. Yet it does demonstrate how complex the process is for the simplest case. |
Thank you for the breakdown... I think I will stick with Music via iTunes for now.
You were able to help someone else, though, which is always cool!
