Therefore, you can image how important it is to have correct metadata information in ePub. Metadata included in an ePub book is essential for you to understand the information and content probably about the ePub book. All of the details about the book (called metadata) are stored in the contents.opf file in the ePub. It describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Here is how to delete iBooks and get book management functionality back to iTunes (including the ability to edit metadata for your files):Data about data is the most essential and the most abstract definition for Metadata. Or alternatively if we have those books in our iPhone or iPad, we can just sync them with iTunes and choose to transfer those books. Re-download books that we purchased from iBookstore. All the metadata we created before should remain unchanged.Ĩ. An alternative way of step 6 is to delete all the books from iTunes library and re-import them from the files. Yes it’s probably a long and tiring process especially if we have plenty of books.ħ. Point the location to the ebook file that we have restored. Right click for each book, choose “Get Info” and it will ask the location of the file. Delete the ebook files from ~/Library/Containers//Data/Documents/iBooks/Booksso iTunes library will detect them as missing. Don’t worry about books that we purchased from iBookstore, we can re-download them again.Ħ. This is mainly for ebook files that we didn’t purchase from iBookstore. Copy our ebook files from our backup back to internal storage. Restart iTunes and Books menu will appear again there.ĥ. Use AppCleaner to remove iBooks app completely.Ĥ. Delete the file for that service: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/amework/Versions/A/Resources/boo kstoreagentģ. Open Activity Monitor and kill the bookstoreagent service.Ģ. Here is how to delete iBooks and get book management functionality back to iTunes (including ability to edit metadata):ġ. on Mac OS X Mavericks even the iBooks for Mac won't permit us to do so. Using the same method we can also add or modify other metadata like title, author & publisher, genre, etc. So the last step is to convert the book to EPUB, even this file is already an EPUB file.įind the converted file in Calibre's library and drag it into iBooks for Mac, now we can see the book displayed in iBooks for Mac with all the gorgeous editing present. , converting the book to EPUB again is necessary, only in this way, we can completely edit the metadata inside the book, not only in Calibre library. No matter if we are adding cover or modifying other metadata like title, author & publisher, genre, etc. To display the edited book in iBooks for Mac, we need add the editing into the book file. In this window we can customize almost all the important metadata, iincluding adding a cover to the bookĪfter you finish the editing, click "OK" to confirm.īut job is not finished yet, in fact the editing is only done in Calibre's library. Right click on the book title, choose "Edit metadata", then "Edit metadata individually". With another software, Calibre for Mac, we can edit book's metadata then load the book into iBooks for Mac app.įirst we import the book into Calibre and delete it from iBooks I take no credit nor responsibility.Īlthough edit metadata with iBooks is impossible, it doesn't mean this is the end of the story. First of all, I GOT THIS FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
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