EPUB book import from Apple Books library
I was hoping to import all my (non DRM) books in my Mac "Books" library (iCloud>Books) into Zotero.... oddly the files don't import when you drag them from the file folder. However the same epub, in the form it was before being imported into iBooks, are easily imported. As a test case, I tried copying some of the (non DRM) epub books into another folder on my desktop (so, outside the official Apple Books book folder)... it seems as if "Books" modifies the files that make them non-readable/importabler in Zotero. Only the original files that were first imported into Books seems to import into Zotero. The problem is that over the years I deleted the original files as they went into my Books library. So I have over 1000 books that Id like to reference from Zotero (and dont have the original epub file copies)... is there a way to fix this?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254517709
Create a zip with the folder content (not the folder itself), replace the zip extension with epub, and you should have an ebook readable by all other applications.
What do I use to create a zip? Any recommended apps?
So I create a zip for the Books folder content (all 1000+ books)
Or do I have to do this for each book, treating each Book in the Books folder as basically a folder and zip the content then change the file name?
Is there a way to do this for all the books at once? Or a bunch of them at the same time?
Thanks
mimetype
file is the first entry in the archive and is uncompressed.We'll look into automatically re-zipping Apple Books EPUBs.