The only area where the software is lacking is its e-book reader it doesn't allow you to highlight or add notes to your books. on Mac OS X Mavericks even the iBooks for Mac won't permit us to do so.An all-in-one solution for handling your e-books, Calibre does for electronic books just what iTunes does for music, allowing you to manage your digital book collection through an intuitive albeit overcrowded interface while offering excellent support for converting books to different formats and editing their metadata. Using the same method we can also add or modify other metadata like title, author & publisher, genre, etc. So the last step is to convert the book to EPUB, even this file is already an EPUB file.įind the converted file in Calibre's library and drag it into iBooks for Mac, now we can see the book displayed in iBooks for Mac with all the gorgeous editing present. , converting the book to EPUB again is necessary, only in this way, we can completely edit the metadata inside the book, not only in Calibre library. No matter if we are adding cover or modifying other metadata like title, author & publisher, genre, etc. To display the edited book in iBooks for Mac, we need add the editing into the book file.

In this window we can customize almost all the important metadata, including adding a cover to the bookĪfter you finish the editing, click 'OK' to confirm.īut job is not finished yet, in fact the editing is only done in Calibre's library. Right click on the book title, choose 'Edit metadata', then 'Edit metadata individually'. With another software, Calibre for Mac, we can edit book's metadata then load the book into iBooks for Mac app.įirst we import the book into Calibre and delete it from iBooks

I take no credit nor responsibility.Īlthough edit metadata with iBooks is impossible, it doesn't mean this is the end of the story. How to edit iBooks meta data under Mac OS X Mavericksįirst of all, I GOT THIS FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.

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