#Change order of books in ibooks update

To produce essentially a computer which will not allow users to sort data in the way that suits them seems to me inept, stupid, insane. Bingo: you have fooled iBooks into doing what you want. IBooks will then reverse sort the books, using the reverse alpha codes you have given them. The first book in the series revolves around nurse-midwife Melinda Monroe, who moves to the 600-person hamlet from the big city. Then add the books to your library again and sync again. Before inspiring a streaming show, Robyn CarrвЂ™s Virgin River books made us fall in love with a dreamy and made-up California town known for its clean forest air and salt-of-the-earth characters. Then, clear the books from the iPad by unchecking the books in your library and performing a sync. You can do this in a program called Calibre, you must save the change by reconverting the book to epub, again using Calibre. The only way I have found to get the books to sort the way you want them automatically is to insert, in the author sort field, a reverse alphabetical code before the author name, substituting z for a, y for b etc. I have three times lost my manually sorted order of 1500 books because of this.

#Change order of books in ibooks update

I cannot explain why, presumably Apple programmers live in a parallel universe where this is the way they do things.Д®ven if you manually re-order the books, the next time Apple isuue an update to iBooks or update the OS, all your books will revert to reverse alphabetical order.

In addition, iBooks sorts books in *reverse alphabetical order*. If this field does not contain the author name with the surname first (eg Tolstoi, Leo) but another word such as 'unknown' then it will file the book under 'u'. The iBooks default is to sort using the 'author sort' field in the book's metatdata.

IBooks puts newly downloaded books at the top of the bookshelves and you can then move them manually. I have worked this out after months of irritaion.