I have lots of epubs that I have downloaded over the years and I would like to easily back them up to a folder.
what is the best way to do it?
what is the best way to do it?
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Resolved best way to back up books
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Are you looking for a book management app? Check out Calibre. If you're just looking to back them up in a folder... create a books folder and sync to iCloud?
I am using the Apple Books app to sync books to my iPad and iPhone. but I would like a way to back them up offline, to a folder on a external drive. I just don't know how to get them out of the app.
this is all I see, it can't be possible in the books app, I see hundreds of books, and I can open them.
I'm wondering if only the downloaded books are there. If you select a book which hasn't been downloaded and download it, does it show in the folder?
The easiest thing to do is keep them in your iCloud storage. That way, you always have access. That is what I do.
but where are they located? I just want to see where on my Mac they are placed.
I just searched in Finder for EPUB and most of my books are in:
iCloud Drive --> Books --- but this folder is not visible in finder.
Other books are located here:
<shrug>
I think a lot of these books are heavily infested with DRM thus moving them from service to service is not easy (like Kindle to iBooks, etc.). Removing the DRM takes a lot of work - especially Kindle. I haven't tried with iBooks but ... I use iBooks as my primary library so I'm happy with everything there at the moment.
I spent about a month moving my Kindle library (purchased only) to my iBooks library. It was ... not easy.
I did some google searching, took me a few websites, but I found the solution
Find books ( in terminal )
open ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/Documents/
you probably should consider an actual backup plan for all of your files - just in case.
Look at either a local Time Machine backup to an external drive or try something online like Backblaze.
Look at either a local Time Machine backup to an external drive or try something online like Backblaze.
iBooks has the lovely behavior of taking all your nicely named book files and replacing the name with a non human readable code. I keep all my properly named book files in a Books2 folder, where iBooks can't find them. If I want to read one, I'll Copy the file over to where iBooks can see it.
Once the books have their name taken away and given a nu,ber, it becomes a difficult task to find them by name or rename them.
Once the books have their name taken away and given a nu,ber, it becomes a difficult task to find them by name or rename them.