I also have found know way to export a book title in the way you mentioned. One thing to consider however is that you can see the book title associated with each generated ID string in the books.plist file found in the books directory.
On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, An update/clarification with respect to iBooks on the Mac. • You can add other format books into iBooks such as pdf’s. Press cmd-shift-o for the Add to Library item and choose the book or books you wish added to your Library. • When you press return or double-click on the newly added book from within the iBooks app on your Mac, they will either open in iBooks itself or in Preview depending on the format of the book and/or your default pdf reader. This behaviour seems to me to be the same as previously mentioned with respect to iTunes and its pdf book behaviour. • Yes, iBooks does place your books in an obscure location and gives it some truly odd filenames in the process. In the sighted user world, there is, though, a method of easily backing up these files with the proper titles and all. What the sighted user can do is simply select the book or books from the Bookshelf in iBooks, and drag the titles to a folder on their Desktop. Supposedly, this will make a copy of the books listed in the Bookshelf in the targeted folder all with the proper book title etc. I haven’t yet figured out a way to accomplish this with VO but, where there’s a will, there soon may be a way. Now, there still are issues with iBooks, I’m not disputing that at all, just hoped to clarify some ideas mentioned in this thread. Do with my info what you wish. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jan 27, 2015, at 07:23, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem with iBooks storage is that it is essentially unique to iBooks. > The ePub files it manages are uncompressed into a container directory under > its control, and given weird and wacky names. I have some books from iBooks, > its true, but I also have many from other publishers and sources, and even > those from iBooks are not all DRM-protected which means they are readable on > non-iBooks readers. > > Honestly, Apple could have done it right--allowing you to specify the > location of the iBooks directory and not tampering with them--and I'd've gone > for it. PDFs could be handled just as they were previously in iTunes; when > double-clicked, they would be opened in Preview or another application. But > they didn't do that, instead preferring to lock you down to their store > unless you were willing to lose copies of books you don't have elsewhere. > Very annoying. Worst of all, iBooks replaces the book-syncing functionality > in iTunes, so books that are moved from iTunes undergo an essentially lossy > conversion process, discarding PDFs and making a pig's ear of any > organisation. It's just not worth it for me. > > Now, it happens that I am about to build a NAS for all my stuff, and one > possibility there is to put original copies of media on the NAS, only moving > them onto my iOS device and/or Mac as and when I need them. In that light, > the day may yet come for me to cherish iBooks. It's not today, but it's > definitely a thought. This somewhat describes your scenario. I think it'd > still be a loss, since now I need to be connected to a network to bring > something in, but it would work. The silver lining would then be that I > could spend less on Apple hardware. :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
