[mac4theblind] Re: How To Use Collections To Manage Your iBooks Library
- From: John Panarese <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:39:17 -0400
I'll have to play with this. I am starting to get a big collection of
books on my iPad. This could be really useful.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
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On Mar 28, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> a handy tip. the link is at the bottom of the article.
>
> How To Use Collections To Manage Your iBooks Library
>
> Between prior purchases and poor self-restraint, I now have an e-book library
> in iBooks several hundred titles strong on my iPad, and it’s growing
> constantly. Simply sorting by Title, Author, or Genre just isn’t going to cut
> it anymore. Thankfully, the introduction of user-manageable Collections in
> iBooks adds some much needed depth to iPad e-book organization.
>
> Collections in iBooks let you create a sort of subfolder in your library
> wherein you can house related books. In my case, as you can see from the
> screenshot below, I’ve created collections for book series, general
> photography resources (the manuals to my cameras are in there, along with
> e-books about photography I’ve purchased, since you can mix and match e-books
> and PDFs), gaming information, authors (books by and about) and a lot more
> besides. It’s all quite easy to do, as you can see from the following
> instructions.
>
>
>
> Managing Your Collections
>
> Step One: Getting Your Books In
>
> If you use iBooks exclusively for your ebook needs, getting your books in is
> a piece of cake. If, like me, you’ve got a library spread across multiple
> vendors you’re going to need to break the DRM (which you do at your own risk,
> and only through means you yourself dig up) on them and then import them to
> iBooks via iTunes. I also had a problem managing collections with books I
> already had in the library before the update, so, it’s worth re-syncing all
> of your books before managing your collections.
>
> Step Two: Creating a Collection
>
> At first, iBooks has two collections: Books and PDFs. Obviously, your ePub
> books are in Books, and any imported PDFs are in, well, PDFs. To create a new
> collection, simply press New at the bottom of the Collections window. Give
> your new Collection a name and you’re good to go.
>
> Step Three: Putting Stuff in the Collection
>
> Press the Edit button on the upper right hand corner of your library. Select
> the books you want to move to the collection and press Move in the upper left
> corner of the screen. Choose your destination collection and the items will
> be moved there. That’s all there is to it.
>
>
>
> Limitations
>
> I haven’t run into too many limitations using collections. Most of them I can
> work around — using the search I can filter by specific authors, titles, etc.
> The biggest problem is that all your Collection management has to happen
> within the app; you can’t manage them via iTunes where using the keyboard and
> mouse is a tad easier. Apple should really think about adding that feature
> into iTunes, which really needs to do some growing up to become the
> multifunction hardware and media manager Apple’s positioned it as.
>
> Got any tips about how to best use collections? Share them in the comments.
>
>
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