Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread Donna Goodin
I have just tried using iBooks for the first time as well. I know this may seem like a sort of basic suggestion, but the first time I opened iBooks, I had the same problem. I closed and reopened the app, and now the problem has gone away. You might give that a try. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 7, 2

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have just tried using iBooks for the first time, so I need to add a couple things to my library. You might want to try trashing all preferences that start with com.apple.ibooks and see if that helps. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 6, 2016, at 04:13, David Griffith wrote: > > Ever sinc

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-07 Thread David Griffith
On Windows I use QRead and as far as I can tell preserves structure fine for the purposes I have used it for. Control H will bring up a navigable list of headings in any book or magazine and this is my main method of navigation. I will put it on my VM Ware Fusion image of Win 7 as a mac alterna

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Yes, clean installs are best done clean. It’s a pain, but it’s always worth doing the clean part. There will be corrupt preferences and long-dead traces of previous crashes or other problems that would be swept up by simply cloning the Library folders. >From what you’re saying, though, it sou

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread David Griffith
Yes this is what is happening with me but based on this feedback I may have to do an ultra clean install. The problem may be that after the install I migrated my apps and settings across to the new install from Time machine as it is a real pain retrieving and entering all the non app store ap

Re: iBooks still unusable after clean install

2016-02-06 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Although I think iBooks for Mac is really quite horrible, an unfinished counterpart to its far-superior iOS version, I didn’t have any trouble using it. Once you interact with the scroll area, you can stay interacted with it, and even continuous read, and it will plough through the book, overco