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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I don't think I can until the beta becomes public.
The thing to keep in mind is that with betas features can be fluid.
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About a month and a couple of new beta releases later, I've formed some opinions on the books app. First, it's very much oriented towards the iTunes store and books you purchase there. Can't really blame Apple for that, but I think that it's useful to keep this in mind when you set your expectations. For the most part, the neat little bells and whistles don't seem to work with the 3rd party books.
Two interesting new features that I like are the series info and the Want to Read on the main screen. Series is nice, it lists the books in the series, shows the next book in the series and has a button to buy. Of course, it only works for books you bought from the iTunes store. That hints to me that they are working to beef up the book selections.
Want to Read simply allows you to tag a book as Want to Read, so it shows up in that list. Marvin kind of has that feature (reading list) and it matches the way that I organize my books. Pretty nice.
I really like the updates to the store. It's similar to the store for apps. music and movies. The downside is that the current DRM removal doesn't work on High Sierra. It's pretty unlikely that I'm going to buy any ebook, music or movies where I can't remove the DRM so I can format shift it, especially if I can buy it elsewhere (i.e. Amazon) and remove the DRM.
The biggest question I have is have they finally moved the audiobooks to books on the Mac. If I can organize my audiobooks categories on my mac and have those changes sync with my iPhone and iPad, then I'm going to be a happy camper. That will solve most of my audiobook complaints.