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ilovejedd · 05-14-2018, 08:44 PM

I don't think it's possible with external tools. iBooks seems to identify books based on checksum. Any changes made to an epub file would change the checksum as well ergo, making it a different book.

I expect iTunes was an exception as it probably had direct access to iBooks' database.

05-14-2018, 08:44 PM	#3
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,110 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	I don't think it's possible with external tools. iBooks seems to identify books based on checksum. Any changes made to an epub file would change the checksum as well ergo, making it a different book. I expect iTunes was an exception as it probably had direct access to iBooks' database.