![]() ![]() ![]() Apple's iBooks Textbooks initiative is a welcome and natural progression.The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with Apple's iPad-based textbooks.Apple announces iBooks 2, Textbooks, iBooks Author.Amazon: "Primed" to disrupt Apple's textbook plans?.Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement.Hopefully somebody gets something out of it. The uncompressed folder must be located in Shortcuts/ePub Editor/TempĪnyway, here’s the link. As above, extract the epub but using a shortcut with ‘set name’ and change the. The shortcut will begin by asking you whether or not you have extracted the epub yet, and if not, it will end the shortcut. Oh and one other thing - you have to activate the shortcut from the share sheet, context menu of the folder you extracted. Oh also, I made it using iPadOS 15 dev beta, and I’m not entirely sure but that may mean there are elements of the shortcut which are only available in iPadOS 15 as opposed to 14. Ive tested it on a few books and it seems to work, but then again, I haven’t been extensive, so maybe it won’t work for you at all… who knows? It’s very much a prototype and I’m sure its quite inelegant so apologies in advance. At least I do not need calibre so much anymore, one of the last things I was reliant upon a mac for. However, I’m really not too great at any of this stuff and wouldn’t have a clue where to start, so for now, this is it. And then, if possible, finding a way to edit the opf without somehow damaging the lines of text and thus be able to edit author, title etc from within a shortcut too. I’m really hoping to find a way to do the extracting etc within the shortcut itself. ![]() This is just cos of how I have it set up so obviously it could be edited. The shortcut draws from these folders - iCloud/Shortcuts/ePub Editor/Temp, and iCloud/Media/Books/Add to iPad. It renames it to be the same name as well, and then locates the original cover and deletes it, placing the new one in instead.įollowing this, it gives you a message telling you to rezip the folder and convert it to an epub using another shortcut - basically just a ‘rename extension’ style shortcut where you get file and then ‘set name’ to the name of the folder.epub instead of. It finds the line which specifies the name and location of the current cover, and then lets me choose a photo from the photo library, and converts it to be the same file type as the current epub cover. This final version (and by final I mean first working version) accesses the opf inside the extracted epub and then turns it into a text document, copying it outside of the epub folder to do this so as to avoid any weird shit in the epub itself. This appears to work fine when I do it manually, and in fact I can even edit the author, title, etc this way, but unfortunately when I do it through the shortcut it does not edit the code of the opf properly - it has the right info, but it doesnt seem to recognise it as a proper line… when viewed in a code editor, it’s margin was back closer to the edge of the screen, I don’t know how to explain any of this because honestly I have never coded a thing in my life, so sorry for not being able to provide a very good explanation. opf file directly to specify a new location for a cover, and then pasting the new cover in the main directory. I’m hoping to find a solution to this at some point, but so far, no good.Īnother approach I tried involved editing the. The reason for this is that, somehow, unextracting the epub through the shortcut itself appears to somehow corrupt the file. It’s not ideal, as it requires you to first use a different shortcut to set the epub to a zip file and then to uncompress it manually before running this shortcut. I tried a few different approaches, but this is the only on so far that has worked. I get a fair number of epub files which I want to change the cover and metadata for and have always wished this was possible on the ipad. Over the last few days I have been working on making a shortcut that will enable me to edit the covers of epub files before sending them to the books app. ![]()
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