{"id":8174,"date":"2013-11-06T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T16:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8174"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:16:25","slug":"the-problem-with-ibooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/the-problem-with-ibooks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem with iBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=6628\">Clark Goble<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.libertypages.com\/clarktech\/?p=6628\"><p>Now you might think this wouldn&rsquo;t be a huge issue. You&rsquo;d think you could do what you do in iTunes and just select &ldquo;Reveal in Finder&rdquo; for the book you are looking at. You&rsquo;d be wrong. iBooks follows more of the type of storage that iOS uses. i.e. completely unintended to be visual. It doesn&rsquo;t keep the original files stored in a suitable location with a database storing links and metadata the way iTunes does. Rather there is a folder deep in ~\/Library with a hash code name for each book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other metadata problem with iBooks is that, unlike Kindle, there is no easy way to export the highlights and notes that you&rsquo;ve added. The situation is slightly improved now that there&rsquo;s a Mac version, though, since you can get at the SQLite file in:<\/p>\n<pre>~\/Library\/Containers\/com.apple.iBooksX\/Data\/Documents\/AEAnnotation\/<\/pre>\n<p>Update (2013-11-07): Aaron D&rsquo;Amico told me that his forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141006142725\/http:\/\/www.compendiumsapp.com\/\">Compendiums<\/a> app will address the problem of exporting iBooks metadata.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark Goble: Now you might think this wouldn&rsquo;t be a huge issue. You&rsquo;d think you could do what you do in iTunes and just select &ldquo;Reveal in Finder&rdquo; for the book you are looking at. You&rsquo;d be wrong. iBooks follows more of the type of storage that iOS uses. i.e. completely unintended to be visual. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-05T14:16:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"e67e6bae-8c30-4d5b-873b-27951523c029","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-05T14:16:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5n5rrowwTVuHOyeVFSPAKQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[682,93,30,32,475],"class_list":["post-8174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-compendiums","tag-ibooks","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-mavericks"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31792,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8174\/revisions\/31792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}