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

submitted 11 months ago by favicondotico@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] xSnakyy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (20 children)

Do people even use Books?

[–] Andedrift@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Love it. Why do people hate on it?

[–] tekchic@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 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.

[–] lilliiililililil@alien.top 1 points 11 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 11 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 :)