Apple iBooks Organizes Your non-DRM PDF eBooks

Here is the second part of our journey to better non-DRM PDF management with Apple iTunes and Apple iBooks…

As you can see here I have synced my gorgeous Apple iPad after we did the work a moment ago with those new non-DRM PDF eBooks in iTunes.

They are now sitting in what is called the PDFs collection screen in iBooks which I tend to call my “To Be Read” pile because all my newest additions stay here till I read them.

But for this exercise let’s pretend I have read these new eBooks already and want to organize them into my collection here on my gorgeous wonderful super “all formats” eBook reading anywhere anytime Apple iPad.

So all I do is click the Collections button and select New and then type in the name of the author and finish by selecting Done.

Back at the PDFs collection screen I select the Edit button at the top right hand side and then scroll down to find the eBooks I want to Move to the new collection I just made. Then I make sure to click to get those blue check marks by each of the eBooks. Next just press the Move button above and select the new collection from the list.

It will automatically now take you to the new collection screen showing you the eBooks have been moved into it. It is here where I want to show you something. See it showing the Genre or Category next to the Author and Title. Yep, it took me some time to figure out that trick but I think it gives just that much more helpfulosity.

Let me show you what happens if you sort by Categories using that button at the bottom there. That was all that Genre information you wondered why you were adding in iTunes…

Aha! I am not that crazy. By filling out the Genre in iTunes with this information that ends up being called Categories in iBooks you can now sort and see what “series” the book is a part of and it’s “order”. Cool beans if you ask me.

Oh, and if you do not fill out that spot in iTunes yourself you might catch a publisher every once in a while using that meta data location for their own sales labeling even though you will not catch it in the iTunes info screen if you actually go looking for it for some reason.

To get rid of it just replace it by overwriting that junk using Genre in iTunes with any custom words of your own like sometimes I will just use the word “None” if I get tired of seeing all the random crap the publisher threw in there.

Tags: iPad