Adding ePubs to app by rustyken | Storiesonline Forum

I recently had an interesting experience adding an ePub to my Books application on my Mac desktop. This came about because I find it a bit easier to select a story and read it using the Books app.

The situation occurred after adding several ePubs to the Book library app with no issues. In some case these were dates of already loaded ePubs. And then one ePub would not load into books. Several attempts were made and some were with a freshly download copy. At first I thought it was a file corruption issue but our admin checked and found it loaded fine on his iPad. So...while I could just let it be, things that don't work when they should bother me.

After futzing around trying various solution paths, I found one that worked. Like our admin, the book loaded fine on to my iPad. So I exported it from the iPad to a file on the Mac. The exported file loaded in to Book Library with no issues. As to exporting the ePub from the iPad, I used an iTune alternative, which also provides some other tools to use.

So if you are having troubles loading a ePub, you might want to take the in direct approach.

Hope this information is valuable to someone.

Cheers

@rustyken

After futzing around trying various solution paths, I found one that worked. Like our admin, the book loaded fine on to my iPad. So I exported it from the iPad to a file on the Mac. The exported file loaded in to Book Library with no issues. As to exporting the ePub from the iPad, I used an iTune alternative, which also provides some other tools to use.

A long-time user of the Apple Books app, there are various easier methods for transferring books from you iPad to your Mac. First, if you simply email the book, you can then right-click (sustained press) on the book in the email to open it in Apple Books. Once there, if you right-click to save it to iCloud, you can then download it easily to any other Apple device. Another approach is to again right-click, choose "Share" and select AirDrop, which will send it directly to the Apple device of your choice.

Also of note, transferring the files to Apple Books is a simply way of having it read to you (via Apple's in-house speech synthesizer). This won't work for select purchases (depending on how they set the book up), for for most ePub imports, you simply type < Ctrl-A> (Control-All), then right click and select "Read Aloud".

Note: For some odd reason, the "Share" to AirDrop does not work within Apple Books (probably because it hasn't been updated in ages!). :(

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