Hi Paul, I'm afraid you're out of luck with most payed iBOoks. They're encrypted and only readable by the software on the phone. I agree an iBook reader for OS X would be nice, but I don't see this happening. There may be a way to break the encryption, but I've no idea how and would advise against trying for legal reasons. Best, Zack. On Oct 29, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> Hello, > As an experiment I recently purchased an ibook from the iTunes store. This > book was downloaded to iTunes on my iMac and then to my iPhone. I can read it > OK on my iPhone. > > Now how can I read it on my iMac? If I open the ipub file for the book it > opens textEdit but the contents of the TextEdit window is not sensible. SO I > tried downloading the Murasaki app from the Apple app store which is supposed > to read ipub files. Alas that displays the same meaningless text as TextEdit. > What am I doing wrong? > > What I ultimately want to do is to use text to speech on my iMac to convert > the book into an MP3 file which I can then read on my iPod Nano G6 which has > no ibook reader app. > > Many thanks for any tips. > > Paul Hopewell > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
