Originally Posted by Finnedog

When you click the Books icon in Libraries you get a comment about syncing to iPad to read a book.

Do you have any ebooks or audiobooks in your library? I think you only get that message if you don't have any books yet. When I click on books I see my audiobooks and the non DRMed epub ebooks that I have already loaded into iTunes.

I am new to Apple products and am trying to find ebooks to buy (not audio books). The iTunes interface for this seems lacking any sort of categorization, even the most basic category of language.

I enabled Column Browser but the only subcategory shown is All.

Am I doing something wrong or is there no way to sort through the 1800+ ebooks on iTunes?

Thanks!

You have to know what you want to shop for first. In the search engine you can write a book type, an author or a title. It's the only quick way.

Amazon is a little better in this respect.

Originally Posted by iVan

You have to know what you want to shop for first. In the search engine you can write a book type, an author or a title. It's the only quick way.

Amazon is a little better in this respect.

iVan,

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping to just browse what was available, but as you say that is not very quick and easy to do. I also learned that the books available on iTunes are really just Apps, and not more traditional eBooks (PDF).

So yea, looks like books is not a strong suit of iTunes.

Originally Posted by ipadowner123

Originally Posted by iVan

You have to know what you want to shop for first. In the search engine you can write a book type, an author or a title. It's the only quick way.

Amazon is a little better in this respect.

iVan,

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping to just browse what was available, but as you say that is not very quick and easy to do. I also learned that the books available on iTunes are really just Apps, and not more traditional eBooks (PDF).

So yea, looks like books is not a strong suit of iTunes.

Shop with iBooks instead.