{"id":19680,"date":"2017-11-30T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19680"},"modified":"2018-12-04T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T20:46:36","slug":"ibooks-in-ios-11-and-high-sierra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/30\/ibooks-in-ios-11-and-high-sierra\/","title":{"rendered":"iBooks in iOS 11 and High Sierra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guillermo del Toro<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Message in a bottle to Apple: My Ibooks have ceased to download- they freeze and then cancel themselves. I have tried everything: googled forums, emailed the pretended help lines- no answer. Is there no hope? What is a fat mortal to do?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Dan Masters<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iBooks has had PDF rendering issues going back to iOS 8. It’s a fucking joke and reflects poorly on iOS that it’s even preinstalled still.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I wonder if iBooks would even exist if the iPad was new today and we understood tablets didn’t need to compete with e-readers. Seems Apple didn’t need to add anything to this market, nor did they have passion for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

I pretty much only use iBooks to read Apple’s free developer documentation. So it’s hilarious that it’s constantly preventing me from doing this by telling me that my account is already authorized for five Macs. I have not even owned five Macs since iBooks was released, and I’ve used Deauthorize All on my iTunes account multiple times in the interim to get around bugs like this.<\/p>\n\n

I’ve been happy with both my Kindle<\/a> Oasis<\/a> and the Kindle iOS apps, but the Kindle Mac app leaves a lot to be desired. For example, it doesn’t let you view more than one book at a time. And, as Dave DeLong<\/a> notes, it doesn’t support cloud collections.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: iBooks Author Conference Highlights Ecosystem Worries<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-01-01): Jim Correia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I just<\/em> bought this book. Literally 2 minutes before I clicked “Read”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Update (2018-12-04): Eli Schiff<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Fucking iBooks just removed all my bookmarks and saved notes. I am so pissed right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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