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From: Martin S Taylor on 4 Jul 2010 17:59
Chris Ridd wrote
>> Did the free Pooh just appear? Did you have to download it? I wonder what
>> I'm
>> doing wrong.
>
> You have to go and find it, then "buy it". Then the book cover appears
> in the other iBooks screen and I think you get the "downloading"
> progress bar superimposed on it.

Yes, I did that, and the downloading bar slowly filled up until it was full.
Then it just stayed there, and didn't go away, as I would have expected.
There was still lots of internet access as though it was still loading, but
it never finally loaded.

On rebooting iBooks, the book is not there, but it *does* show up when
looking at the iPhone's content in iTunes.

Probably just one of those things which will have gone away in a couple of
days. We'll see.

MST

From: Sak Wathanasin on 5 Jul 2010 03:40
On 4 July, 22:59, Martin S Taylor <m...(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk>
wrote:

> On rebooting iBooks, the book is not there, but it *does* show up when
> looking at the iPhone's content in iTunes.
>
> Probably just one of those things which will have gone away in a couple of
> days. We'll see.

Did you enable "sync books" in iTunes? If not, you need to drag to the
iPhone icon, just as with music & videos. Beware that if you're
managing music & vids manually, enabling "sync books" also
(re-)enables "sync music & video", and iTunes will helpfully delete
all the music/vids on yr iPh before syncing it with, in my case, an
empty playlist, since I was managing it all manually.

iBooks is very slow at starting up on the 3G, and not that brilliant
at rescaling and scrolling PDFs - goes like a rocket on the iPad.
From: Martin S Taylor on 5 Jul 2010 06:21
Sak Wathanasin wrote
> Did you enable "sync books" in iTunes?

Yes, did that.

> If not, you need to drag to the
> iPhone icon, just as with music & videos.

Drag what to the iPhone icon? Didn't know anything about that.

Actually the problem first started when just using the iPhone. I downloaded
and installed iBooks (successfully) and then tried to get some books,
(unsuccessfully) all of this was done using the iPhone.

The books appeared on the bookshelf, and the 'loading' thermometer grew from
all black to all blue but then it stayed at all blue and there was lots of
network activity. When I got bored with this, I rebooted the app, and the
bookshelf was empty.

After three or four goes at this, I plugged the iPhone into the Mac, and
iTunes tells me there are three or four copies of the book on the iPhone,
though I can't see any of them.

MST

From: Sak Wathanasin on 5 Jul 2010 07:05
On 5 July, 11:21, Martin S Taylor <m...(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk>
wrote:


> Drag what to the iPhone icon? Didn't know anything about that.

That only works if yiu've opted to manually manage music etc,
otherwise iTunes disables the function ('cos it's keeping it all in
sync for you).

> Actually the problem first started when just using the iPhone. I downloaded
> and installed iBooks (successfully) and then tried to get some books,
> (unsuccessfully) all of this was done using the iPhone.

Ah, sorry - missed that bit: I've not tried "buying" books on the
iPhone itself, only from iTunes and the iPad.
From: Chris Ridd on 5 Jul 2010 11:25
On 2010-07-05 12:05:55 +0100, Sak Wathanasin said:

> Ah, sorry - missed that bit: I've not tried "buying" books on the
> iPhone itself, only from iTunes and the iPad.

You can't buy epub books from inside iTunes, can you?
--
Chris

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