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Apple unveils the top books of 2023 and a new Year in Review experience (www.apple.com)

submitted 9 months ago by favicondotico@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] xSnakyy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Do people even use Books?

[–] Andedrift@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Love it. Why do people hate on it?

[–] attempted@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You can’t adjust the margins.

[–] LofiLute@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because there's no way to use them in a dedicated eReader. I love my iPad, but for extended reading sessions it's not even comparable to a Kindle (or other eReader). The eInk screen is easier on the eyes and doesn't fuck with my sleep, they're lighter and more easily held than an iPad Mini, and I can toss it in my bag for weeks and it'll still have battery power.

If the Apple struck a deal with Kobo or BOOX to get Apple Books on their device (or fuck, makes their own) I'd switch in an instant.

[–] Tunafish01@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

i want an apple ereader an apple book sub that gives both books and audiobooks and whispersync.

How apple has missed all these features for years is beyond me. They are a trillion dollar company !!

[–] tekchic@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As an avid reader, it's far too limited for my usage. I want to be able to Share/AirDrop books from one device to another (books I own in open source epub, not DRM books).

I want to be able to change the font, add custom fonts, use custom themes, adjust margin width, line height, etc. I can't do any of this in Books. I used to be a Marvin 3 user, but that got abandoned so I moved on to MapleRead SE and have been using that for the past few years.

[–] nooneinpar7@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I think it syncs the books you add via iCloud if you import the EPUBs into Books on your device rather than syncing them via iTunes or something.

[–] -elemental@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You can do a lot of that. Maybe not as much as you want, but the options are there.

[–] lilliiililililil@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree with all of your other points and I'm not trying to convince you to switch to Apple Books but you actually can airdrop books between devices! Most of the time I don't need to because I sync my whole library over icloud but occasionally I will download a single epub and then airdrop it to my ipad and it imports immediately.

I'm otherwise not picky about the rest of the things (my biggest gripe is actually poorly imported metadata! and I've finally gotten Books to show all my cover art so I can't switch now) but the Airdrop ability is a must for me and I use it a lot.

[–] tekchic@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Would you be able to show me how to do this? I have screenshots from Books with an epub (non DRM) of my own after tapping "Share" but I'm unable to get into either Files or AirDrop. Neither option is displayed so if others can do it, clearly I'm missing something :)

Here are my screenshots:

https://imgur.com/LFgwvTm

https://imgur.com/ZQtcX9e

https://imgur.com/x6A7kjU

[–] KingPumper69@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I hate it now that they started putting ads on the main screen. I wake up one day, decide to open the books app to get some reading in, and they made the continue reading section tiny and now I have a topless Britney Spears staring at me. Immediately went on my pihole and blocked books.apple.com

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