05-10-2021

About iBooks Author

Browse, buy, and download books from your favorite authors on Apple Books. Apple Books features more than two million biographies, mysteries, comedies, classics. Get help downloading books, audiobooks, and more on your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Learn more about Books with these resources. User profile for user: Sarris2 Sarris2. User level: Level 1. This is about 'my devices' in my iCloud account. Books tells me that I have five computers 'authorized' for purchases. It looks like I can only deauthorize a computer from the computer itself, and those computers are gone. User profile for user: Sarris2 Sarris2. User level: Level 1. This is about 'my devices' in my iCloud account. Books tells me that I have five computers 'authorized' for purchases. It looks like I can only deauthorize a computer from the computer itself, and those computers are gone. Download and open the content on your Mac, open individual books and organize entire browsable libraries, highlight passages, attach notes, etc. Optionally, work with PDFs. IBooks 2.2 for Mac can be downloaded from our website for free. The program is included in Lifestyle Tools. This free Mac application was originally created by Apple Inc.

iBooks Author will no longer be updated, and it is no longer available to new users. If you’ve previously downloaded the app, you can still access it from your App Store purchase history. You can continue to use iBooks Author on macOS 10.15 and earlier, and books previously published to Apple Books from iBooks Author will remain available. You can also open and edit iBooks Author files (.iba) in Pages.

About book creation in Pages

You can create books from your Mac, iPad, iPhone, and iCloud.com.

Create and share books

You can create, collaborate on, and publish books.

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  • Import an iBooks Author book into Pages on your Mac for further editing.
  • Create a book by selecting a template, adding pages, and viewing and sending an EPUB.
  • Collaborate with others on a shared book.
  • Publish to Apple Books to offer your books for download or purchase.

Design books

You can use many features in Pages to help you design your book.

  • Use drop caps to make a paragraph stand out with a large, decorative first letter.
  • Fill text with gradients or images for added style.
  • Apply a color, gradient, or image to the background of any page.
  • Add linked text boxes to allow your text to flow from one text box to another automatically.
  • Create and use master pages to keep your design consistent across your book.
  • Use facing pages to create two-page spreads.
  • Add vertical text for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Add media to books

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You can add video, image galleries, drawings, audio, and more to your book.

  • Add images and include video in your book.
  • Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in your books.*
  • Insert an image gallery to view and move through a collection of photos on the same page.
  • Add drawings to your book with Apple Pencil or your finger and animate them.
  • Include captions and titles for images, videos, shapes, and other objects.
  • Record and play audio directly on a page.
  • Add accessibility descriptions to media to help people using assistive technology.
  • Choose from over 700 editable shapes to add to your book.
  • Use LaTeX or MathML notation to add an equation.
  • Place images, shapes, and equations inline in text boxes, so they move with the text.

* This feature might not be available in all countries or regions.

Organize books

You can give your book structure and form.

  • Navigate your book with an automatically generated table of contents.
  • Duplicate, move, or copy and paste pages or sections of your book.
  • Add links to webpages or other pages in your book.
  • Create and save your template to use again as a model for new books.

Send feedback

If you have any feedback or feature requests for Pages, please share them with us.

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Explore the Book Store

Search for and purchase books from a variety of categories and genres from the Book Store.

Browse books on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

  1. Open the Books app and tap Book Store at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Browse the top charts or books recommended for you. Or tap Browse Sections to see book store sections like Coming Soon or genres like Young Adult or Nonfiction. You can also tap the Search tab to search for specific titles, authors, narrators, and more.
  3. Tap a book. You can tap Sample to read a preview of the book, or tap Want to Read to add it to your Want to Read list in the Reading Now tab.

You can tap Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your device appear under the Library tab.

Browse books on your Mac

  1. Open the Books app.
  2. In the sidebar under Book Store, click Featured, Top Charts, or The New York Times to browse for books. Or click Categories to see genres like Comics & Graphic Novels, History, or Mysteries & Thrillers. You can also use the Search option in the upper-right corner.
  3. Click a book. Then you can click Get Sample to read a preview of the book before buying.

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You can click Buy and confirm the purchase of your book. All of your books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you've purchased from the Book Store or Audiobook Store or manually added to your Mac appear in your Library tab under the All Books tab in the sidebar.

Read books

Tap or double-click a book to open it and start reading. If you close the book, Apple Books saves your place for you. Controls are available to customize your reading experience and annotate passages. You can also search for a specific word or page number and create bookmarks to view later.

Control your reading on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Tap the center of your screen on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to open and close the controls while reading. You can tap the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section, see bookmarks you've added, and view highlights and notes you've made.

Learn how to adjust font sizes and brightness, take notes, and create bookmarks.

Control your reading on your Mac

To view the controls when you're reading on your Mac, move your pointer to the top of the book. You can click the Table of Contents button to skip to a different chapter or section. To skip to a bookmarked page, click the the down arrow next to the Bookmark button .

Learn how to highlight and take notes or change a book's appearance.

Manage your library

Organize the books in your library, and download a book to read offline. If you need to remove any downloaded items, you can delete books and audiobooks from your devices.

Download books on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Tap the book to open it and download it automatically. You can also tap the More button below the book and choose Download.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first tap to open the series, then tap the download button under the book that you want.

Organize your library on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Tap Library.
  2. Under Collections, tap the word next to Sort. If you don't see Sort, swipe down on your screen to have the option appear.
  3. From the menu that appears, choose Recent, Title, Author, or Manually. You can also sort other collections. For example, go to Collections > Audiobooks to sort your audiobooks by author.

Click the List View button to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

Download books on your Mac

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  1. Find the item in your library. Don't see the book that you want?
  2. Click the cloud icon in the upper-right corner. If you don't see the cloud icon, the book is already downloaded to your device.
  3. If the book is part of a series, first double-click to open the series, then click the cloud icon on the book that you want to download.

Organize your library on your Mac

  1. Click All Books in the left sidebar.
  2. Click View > Sort By from the menu bar.
  3. Choose Most Recent, Title, or Sort Manually.

Click View > View As from the menu bar to view your books as a list instead of a grid.

If you don't see a book

If you don't see a book that you purchased from the Book Store in your library, here are some things you can try.

Update your device

Make sure that you're using the latest version of iOS or iPadOS on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, or the latest version of macOS on your Mac.

Turn on iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Open the Settings app.
  2. Tap [your name] > iCloud
  3. Turn on both iCloud Drive and Books.
  4. Then go to Settings > Books. Under Syncing, turn on iCloud Drive.
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Download all of your books on your Mac

  1. In the sidebar under Book Store, click Featured.
  2. Under Quick Links, click Purchased.
  3. Click the Download All button in the lower-right corner.

Redownload or unhide your books

Redownload books to add books that you previously deleted back to your library.

Unhide books if you previously hid those purchases.

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  • You can listen to audiobooks in the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Or use iTunes on a PC.
  • You can save copies of PDFs from emails and webpages into the Books app.
  • You can also add DRM-free EPUB file format books, iBooks Author books, books that you create with Pages, MP3 audiobooks, AAC audiobooks, and Audible.com audiobooks to your library.