Finally had to admit defeat and start using voiceover. Then 6 months ago, my eyes got to a point where using them to read causes bad headaches. Until i discovered e-books, the pain and inefficiency of using a magnifyer or CCTV of any sort made me hate reading. I was 28 when i actually read my first book. I switched to ipad in 2013 and continued enjoying e-books while i could still read.
Back then it was an Android device and i could still see enough to read. Thanks in advance to anyone who is willing to answer my questions!įirst discovered e-books in 2011 when i got my first tablet. However, I'm especially interested in iBooks users. If you are using other apps when reading with TTS, please tell me of your experiences as well. I would be very grateful for all your answers! I wonder, does any of you read books with iBooks? How does it feel emotionally when you read books in iBooks? Are you able to be thrown into a story and get images in your heads of what's going on in the same way as with audiobooks? And lastly, do you prefer the Siri voices or the Voiceover voices? Not because of the voices, but because I have been reading books in audio for as long as I can remember and suddenly being without a narrator who gives life to a book and it's characters has been hard for me to get used to. It has taken me some time and effort to get used to reading with Voiceover. I have been always been rather slow with braille, and packing an extra device with me every time I want to read with my iPhone doesn't really appeal to me. I find reading with Voiceover like I imagine someone reading with their eyes would. So I have been using iBooks for about two and a half years by now. All of a sudden, I could read books that were previously unavailable to me. However, a while ago, I realized there are many books that are not available in audio. I have a very hefty library of purchased audiobooks. I will not test this anymore, please test yourself and set a different answer which I will accept in case you find more.I have a question that has been bugging me for a while now.
Settings > scroll down to Books > iCloud Drive is switched on, that cannot be the issue, following. Because I marked iBooks to be included in iCloud, but they are in my iTunes backup instead (proven), and they can only be in the backup OR in the iCloud (not in both, thus, they seem to be ONLY in the backup), if I am not mistaken. Perhaps my sync settings are corrupt or wrong. I have also tried opening it in terminal, as it could be hidden like the answer stated at Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive, and I could not find it:Ĭ:\Users\USER\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media>dir /aĭoes not have it, showing both hidden and unhidden items with /a (for /a see ). And then, to answer the question, there simply is no such folder. This is also plausible, because my iBooks are backed up, and Apple does only one thing of the both, either sync or backup. This could mean that it is simply not possible to sync iBooks with iCloud on Windows, as commented above. The checkbox "iBooks" does not exist in my iCloud > iCloud Drive settings.
Then there comes an explanation of how to use iBooks for iCloud, but only on Mac:įirst, we need to make sure you've got iBooks turned on for your Held.) From Library, navigate to Containers ->Ĭom.apple.BKAgentService -> Data -> Documents -> iBooks -> Books. OSX Lion and above, Library will only appear with the Option key Hold the Option key (or Shift + Option on latest Sierraīuilds), and select the "Library" menu option from the Go menu. PDFs on your Mac: Open Finder, and select the "Go" menu at the top of
On Mac, the iBooks PDFs copied by doing Transfer Purchases are tuckedĪway in data for the iBooks Mac App.
Windows 10, this would show up under This PC -> Music.) Open theįolders iTunes -> iTunes Media -> Books. Your Windows computer: Go into your user account's Music folder. Transfer Purchases are stored in your computer user's account folder,Īlongside your iTunes music.
On Windows, the iBooks PDF files copied to your iTunes by doing Where are My iBooks PDFs Stored on my Computer? I found a description that explains the equivalent Windows and Mac folders at. If I cannot locate the folder, the only solution is via extraction from the iTunes backup, see: Summing up the answer in advance: the folder simply might not exist on Windows.