Major annoyance with iBooks app - Page 2

HarryT · 07-18-2010, 04:53 AM

Why do you disagree, Geoff? What other portable device, other than something like a notebook PC, has such a wide range of different book reading applications available?

GeoffC · 07-18-2010, 04:54 AM

No you misunderstood my mirth. A lot of the anti-Apple brigade would have you believe the lack of choice with Apple devices.

That's all I meant .....

mjhudston · 07-18-2010, 05:37 AM

have reported it as a bug. it's really most annoying as I found out yesterday. at least the wifi issue appears to have been fixed though.

HarryT · 07-18-2010, 05:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjhudston

have reported it as a bug. it's really most annoying as I found out yesterday. at least the wifi issue appears to have been fixed though.

It's happened to me twice now - once when iBooks was updated from 1.0 to 1.1, and again with this firmware upgrade. Very annoying when I've spent a long time arranging my books into series on the bookshelf. I think I'll have to start using Calibre to add the series name and order into the title.

mjhudston · 07-18-2010, 06:29 AM

well iBooks was already at 1.1 when I downloaded it, so I missed the fault first time.

phassat · 07-18-2010, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by arcadata

I find that iBooks loads books very slowly, and I usually need to tap on the cover a couple of times since I get an error message usually. And then once I'm reading, the page turning is veeery slow as well compared to how responsive Kindle/Stanza/GoodReader are.

Hi, i am new here but i found same issue. It is rather slow compared to stanza but i love the highlight and bookmark feature.

I kept using ibook because when i am reading, i don't really need speed app.

I have problem for converting pdf to epub and the annoying one is the left and right margin of the converted ebook. It took a lot of margin compared to ebook that bought from ibook store. I've tried to put margin at "0" on calibre but it didn't change the margin or might only change it a bit.
Anyone already solved this yet?

Bremen Cole · 07-18-2010, 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phassat

Hi, i am new here but i found same issue. It is rather slow compared to stanza but i love the highlight and bookmark feature.

I kept using ibook because when i am reading, i don't really need speed app.

I have problem for converting pdf to epub and the annoying one is the left and right margin of the converted ebook. It took a lot of margin compared to ebook that bought from ibook store. I've tried to put margin at "0" on calibre but it didn't change the margin or might only change it a bit.
Anyone already solved this yet?

I've always had trouble converting PDF to ePub... I have now just let it go, and read the PDF's in Goodreader or Stanza...... much less headache, and it works.... heck now that I think about it ... you can read the PDF's in iBooks now as well.....

techie42 · 07-22-2010, 03:02 PM

I like Good reader too but I wish there was a way to organize books into catagories or folders.

scottjl · 07-22-2010, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by techie42

I like Good reader too but I wish there was a way to organize books into catagories or folders.

goodreader does have folders.. very easy to organize books with it.

ibooks doesn't have folders. but you can assign categories to books and then sort them by categories in list view.

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07-18-2010, 04:53 AM	#16
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383099 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Why do you disagree, Geoff? What other portable device, other than something like a notebook PC, has such a wide range of different book reading applications available?

07-18-2010, 04:54 AM	#17
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	No you misunderstood my mirth. A lot of the anti-Apple brigade would have you believe the lack of choice with Apple devices. That's all I meant .....

07-18-2010, 05:37 AM	#18
mjhudston All round good egg Posts: 229 Karma: 1005039 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: Apple Ipad 3rd Generation	have reported it as a bug. it's really most annoying as I found out yesterday. at least the wifi issue appears to have been fixed though.

07-18-2010, 06:29 AM	#20
mjhudston All round good egg Posts: 229 Karma: 1005039 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: Apple Ipad 3rd Generation	well iBooks was already at 1.1 when I downloaded it, so I missed the fault first time.

07-22-2010, 03:02 PM	#23
techie42 Zealot Posts: 138 Karma: 76 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Toronto Device: KOBO and iPad	I like Good reader too but I wish there was a way to organize books into catagories or folders.