At high quality, a long-ish audiobook is 600 MB to 1 GB! I think the iTunes library on my audiobooks machine is more than 1 TB, more than half the total storage on the laptop where I manage them. From Books.app, if I ever bothered to use it, that would be mandatory.įor managing storage…ebooks are one thing, but audiobooks are an entirely different matter. From the Audible app, I almost always fail out to Goodreads to double-check. The Audible app does a mediocre-to-poor job of this, but Books.app makes the Audible app look first class. The app where I listen needs to know about, use, and have access to complete enough metadata about the entire collection to find book #4 in a series when I can’t remember what the title is. LibraryThing isn’t going to play my audiobook, nor is Delicious Library. It’s essential that the metadata gets written back to the audio tracks, so that the information about the book travels wherever the book goes. My use case is keeping the actual, digital audiobook files organized, searchable and sortable, and so on. While sites like LibraryThing (or Goodreads, Delicious Library, or whatever) are, I suppose, fine for tracking lists of books, that’s not my use case. The metadata matters, but it’s not the only thing. But I don’t read a lot of material from ebooks.īut my audiobooks collection, starting with Audible in 2003 (!), and growing to include books from, other services I use less frequently, and physical books on CDs and MP3 CDs (storing those is a separate irritation), is thousands of books now. I mostly manage my ebooks in the Finder, and don’t worry too much about the metadata. (There are some supposedly good Windows-based options, another thing the Intel Mac mini will help me explore.)Īgree. I’d be thrilled to see someone build a dedicated audiobook library manager, but the market for that seems…quite small, at least if you limit it to macOS. And do other things that require an Intel processor. I’m in the process of setting up a Mojave VM on a newer (but not M1) Mac mini, which I bought specifically to be able to use with older versions of macOS that couldn’t run on an M1 (M2, etc.) Mac. (Not arguing iTunes isn’t also bloated just that it manages audiobooks very well, and nothing else does.) I simply didn’t try to move my audiobooks to the new laptop, and I continue to maintain my collection on the older machine. I never upgraded it from macOS 10.whatever (Mojave), because I didn’t want to lose all of the things that iTunes does do well. Mojave (and iTunes) is the answer I’ve come to as well.Ĭurrently that’s my previous laptop, an unloved 2016 MacBook Pro that was replaced by an M1 13" MBP. I’m beginning to think a modification of Mark Twain’s statement fits for big tech: “I wonder if God invented the monkey because He (sic) was disappointed in sofware designers!” Sorry Mark but I had to say it. They keep tweeting it and have messed up what was once a very easy system to access books on the device. Bad Apple -PīTW Amazon has made the Kindle app almost unusable. Unfortunately Apple doesn’t want us to have easy access to our information. I’ve been able for years to easily copy and paste my audible books and Kindle books to develop the same table format, then add alphabetical rows (A, B, C, etc) which are then added to a table of contents, duplicate the whole database so I can sort one by author and another by title, then PDF the result. They won’t let one print the list of your purchases, and block every other way, so I used TextSniper to copy the text of the listings - slow work given multiple pages - pasted the result in a Nisus Writer Pro document, cleaned up the results and converted it into a table. Well, I finally found a way to get my (extensive) catalog listing of my books on Apple Books. Though given under the feedback drop-menu “ Which version of Books for Mac are you using?” it only goes up to v1.5 while the latest is v4.4(!), one wonders if anyone cares if they can’t even keep the current versions correct. This makes curating a library in the Books app almost impossible to do now.Īpple Books.app replacement needed - #4 by jimthing third-party) ePubs/PDFs have these 3 fields editable purchased books have ZERO fields that can be edited at all anymore. Worse, currently only non-Apple Bookstore (i.e. Previously we also had Year, Category, Comments, and Description available to us. The only editable fields available currently are Author, Title, and Cover. Since the Catalyst version of the macOS Books app was introduced in the last version of macOS, proper metadata tag editing has been removed for most fields. Reinstate proper metadata tag editing in Books app on macOS & make all fields viewable across Apple OS’s.
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