Another disgracefully poorly-designed app from Apple
Apple doesn’t seem to care what it puts out for its users. I remember back when it’s proud and truthful motto was “It just works.” They would be laughed at if they used that advertisement today.
I cannot begin to list all the deficiencies of this app. My biggest complaint is that it just cannot handle a sizable collection of books. Categorizing them and for searching for titles in the list is so frustrating.
The app cannot be prevented from offloading files, so that for example using an iPad and going out into the field on a photo-taking mission, while relying on this app to hold the PDF of a needed instruction manual for my camera results in failure. I end up out there with no wifi and no instruction manual — the manual has been offloaded, though there’s plenty of space on the devise. The app doesn’t have a switch to cause any files or specific files to be kept. Zero thought went into the design.Dave McA
Books App is unstable since the last three updates starting with iOS 15
I’ve been using iPad since the very first one came out and one of the apps I use most often is the Apple Books app. I have about 2000+ PDFs and a number of purchase books and ever since I updated iOS 15 on my iPad Pro I’ve had nothing but grief with his application.
I’ve done all the normal things; run diagnostics, restarted, rebooted, deleted the app, factory reset, and made sure I was up to the most current revision etc… and it’s still extremely unstable.
It randomly crashes, it randomly loses all the bookmarks, It randomly loses the most recent PDFs I’ve opened and that was made more difficult since the search program got hosed but seems to been recently fixed with the last update.
All my subdirectories get randomly cleared of all books and I’m told that I have no books orPDFs.
I contacted Apple for support and the support technician agreed that based on the symptoms that I described and the fact that I had gone through all the normal Debug procedures that it was most likely related to the latest update. They proceeded to connect me to the next level support and unfortunately they connected me to the wrong department. When I called back I had to rehash the whole explanation of my problem all over again and I still don’t have a satisfactory answer.
It’s nice to have new features in the new iOS but I wish they would test the iOS better before they release it.
Apple get your act together.RKP81
This is The Worst Apple App!!
I have about 1000 pdf’s that I created using Apples “Pages” App. I store the pdf files in Apples “Books” app in different collections
My problems:
1) The app is continually crashing after 10 to 15 seconds of opening the app. So my pdf files are not available when I need them.
2) The number of books in each collection is not correct … and does not reliably sync with iCloud. I have one collection that contains 510 pdf files. That is what is shown on my iPhone. But on my IPad it shows 50 or 55 or 80 …. It’s always changing but is never close to 510.
3) I have spent hours rebooting my iPad, resetting network settings, uninstalling/reinstalling the “books app”, turning off/on books in iCloud, turning off/on iCloud to try to get my pdf files to properly appear on my iPad …. But only a fraction of the files appear (but they do appear on my iPhone).
4) Because of all of these problems, I would like to create an inventory list of all the pdf files stored in books. But Apple gives you no tools to do this.
5) The name of the app “Books” is a STUPID choice. Such a generic word makes using search engines to look for solutions spit out all kinds of unhelpful references
6) There is no method that I can find to sort my pdf files by size on my ipad.
It really irritates me to waste so many hours trying to access my pdf files …. With no fix as of this writing.DRM 87654383557
Extremely Laggy Highlighted ebooks
I have never written a review before but iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 have rendered Books utterly USELESS, making my iPad Pro extremely annoying for my primary purpose…reading books. Problem: The more highlighted (using Apple Pencil 2) the pages of an ebook (especially E-Pub format) are, the laggier the response time. This renders reading a book next to impossible because any gesture (especially turning pages) performed on the screen will take multiple seconds (sometimes 25 secs) to respond. This bug was NOT at all there in iOS 14. It is an iOS 15 problem. It is escalated only when text is highlighted using Apple Pencil 2. Tests done: 1. Upgraded to ios15 & Restored my iPad Pro from my Mac. 2. Factory Reset my iPad Pro to iOS 15 3. Tested the same on iPhone 13 Pro Max Results: Books FAILED to perform for every iteration of Test above. Test results successful: 1. Downgraded to iPADOS 14 using Apple signed IPSW Please fix the problem of VERY laggy books, the more highlighted the text are.RK19590
Books App Review
Are use the book app every single day. I read my books on my phone using the Books app. I love it because I always have my book with me wherever I go. This has been going on for over 20 years with me and the books app.
However, there is one part of reading a book that is very irritating. I only read books for pleasure I do not need the editing features. So I am constantly having to erase the highlights because my fingers touch the screen too long often or I press to hard to move the page. Is there anyway that Apple could add a feature that would allow a person to turn off the editing feature all together? It would make the Books app even more pleasurable to use.
I would also like to complement the filing feature within the app especially when I read books in a series. It keeps up with what I’ve already read and which book in the series comes next. That is a wonderful part of the Books app since I have almost 200 books out in my Books file.
So thank you for the Books app and please at sometime in the future that minor change would be very much appreciated.Books App Lover
iBooks
I recently wrote a review for iBooks but I’m writing this again because I am so irritated that the page numbers were removed from this app that I’m seriously feeling hostile! Who does that? I was looking for something in an old book I purchased and the page numbers are at the bottom of the book. The little horizontal scroll (not real sure what the official name is) that moves you through the chapters was still there. But the new book I’m reading doesn’t have either. I’m trying to get back to the page I was on but have to flip through the pages until I get to the bookmark. Thank goodness I marked my page before I left it! I can’t imagine what anyone was thinking to get rid of that but clearly they weren’t! This app is rapidly headed to the bottom of the heap. Considering it was once my favorite app that’s pretty bad! Forget worrying about how great your camera is and do something about other parts of the phone!Imhisjoy3
Fix it
I used to have this application to have books read out loud but after the new iOS it’s gone crazy , did used to highlight the sentence of where I am reading but now it highlights the whole page, i usually have the book starts reading at the beginning and it reads it continuously but now it stops at each chapter which is really annoying, i used to mark the page where of I stopped the book and then I will just ask it to be read out loud when I want it to start again but now I have to start at the beginning of each chapter I can’t do it from the page ,now it has to be at the beginning of each chapter. One other thing that keeps happening is that the application keeps removing and deleting some of the books from it and sometimes whenever I am downloading a book it’s telling me I don’t have the space even though I have a lot of storage left and it deletes the books in it without asking or anything. Please fix this .Gika Salama
