Hey all,
I've been persuaded to challenge my fears and try Yosemite on my iMac 2011
again, especially for the oh-so-useful SMS proxy feature. Not only is running
it from an external Thunderbolt SSD not a very reasonable measure of
performance, but people here and on AppleVis have said that the
I'm sorry if this has been covered before but I find iBooks under
Yosemite very easy and usable. It is certainly a completely different
kettle of fish to the Mavericks version.
The main outstanding problem is that I cannot get the shortcut key for
chapter navigation to work but can nevertheless
iBooks on Yosemite is definitely an improvement over Mavericks, but I'm still
using iOS for my book reading and can't really see any great loss in not having
iBooks for Mac. The issue the silly way it stores your books in the iBooks
container in ~/Library/Containers, which basically makes it im
OK I agree iOS applications can often provide better reading experiences ,
especially with kindle and Voice Dream reader. I think a Mac ebook solution
remains important for people who want to for example, study as the integration
with productivity software may be important.
I also agree tha
The problem with iBooks storage is that it is essentially unique to iBooks.
The ePub files it manages are uncompressed into a container directory under its
control, and given weird and wacky names. I have some books from iBooks, its
true, but I also have many from other publishers and sources,
Hi,
An update/clarification with respect to iBooks on the Mac.
• You can add other format books into iBooks such as pdf’s. Press cmd-shift-o
for the Add to Library item and choose the book or books you wish added to your
Library.
• When you press return or double-click on the newly added boo
I also have found know way to export a book title in the way you mentioned.
One thing to consider however is that you can see the book title associated
with each generated ID string in the books.plist file found in the books
directory.
On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Well, thanks for the clarifications, anyway.
I'll be doing a fresh install on the target system, so I will make a best
effort to adapt to this madness, though like I said I'm very much displeased by
it. It seems to be part of the general trend of declining quality, but I'll
save that for anoth
