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Apple Books Keeps Deleting My Books

How do I prevent the Books apps from deleting (moving to the cloud) copies of my books? This is extremely frustrating as I find myself on a plane or a boat or somewhere without Internet access and my books miraculously deleted. It's not a storage saving issue because my books take up less than a GB and I've got hundreds of GB of free space. I don't see an option in settings to prevent books from being deleted. Is there a workaround to this bug?




iPad Pro, iPadOS 17

Posted on Jul 11, 2024 12:22 AM

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User profile for user: eddyj
eddyj Author
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Posted on Jul 15, 2024 9:19 PM

So like is this just by design then? Delete all your books every once in a while just because we can?

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eddyj Author
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Jul 24, 2024 5:37 AM in response to eddyj

I've solved the problem so just wanted to include the solution here in case anyone's Google search leads them to this thread. The fix is easy: Delete the Books.app and download the Kindle app instead. Put your epubs in the Kindle app and buy your books through Kindle/Amazon as well. The Kindle app does everything Books.app does except randomly delete your saved books. 👍

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