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[Marcelo Chaplin]

Afternoticing that "Books" (at the same level of control as "Music") has been apparently removed from iTunes for iOS 11, kind of panic'd, since I have some books that I need on my iPad. Not in iCloud, but on my iPad locally. Looked around for how I can put the books that were on my iPad back on it, and the solutions were few and far between, and just about all invalidated by new iOS release changes. So I patched this together from what I found, updated for iOS 11.2.5:

I believe that at this point the book or books that you brought into iBooks are now stored locally on your iPad, so you can remove them from iCloud Drive if you wish or need to. Do keep a copy of them, of course, since you will need to do this again at some point...guaranteed that Apple will create a situation where you need to do this yet again. For me, it was when I got an iPad Pro, and the books from my iPad Air 2 were not restored to the iPad Pro from my iCloud backup when I set it up.

I'm a little miffed at Apple for removing the ability for me to easily put books on my iPad that don't come from the iTunes store, and . It is, after all, my iPad, I paid for it and like to think that I own it and Apple is helping me use it. The above is time-consuming work that should be made easier by the software on the iPad and iTunes, but Apple chooses to make me spend my time going through a mundane set of steps that used to be just plain easy.

Might try this, but in the past, anything that gets into the Cloud, I cannot get back out again. So, what's the point? Might as well delete the material.....which ironically, I can delete material in the Cloud that I otherwise cannot get to. Stupid system. Thanks for trying though.

In the Books app on your Mac, click Home in the sidebar. Books you are currently reading appear in Continue. If you have not started reading a book, click All under Library in the sidebar to see a list of purchased books.

For books that include the Read Aloud feature: Click the Play button in the toolbar at the top of the book (or use the Touch Bar). Click the pop-up menu next to the Play button, then choose a page turning option.

Books For Africa appreciates all book donations. It costs BFA 50 cents to ship each book to Africa. Consider making a financial donation to cover the costs of shipping the books you donate. Please send financial donations separately in an envelope to the BFA office: Books For Africa, 717 Prior Ave N., Ste. B, St. Paul, MN 55104, USA. Or make a donation online.

If you mail books, please do not send boxes that weight more than 50 pounds and do not include any non-recyclable packing materials such as plastic bubble wrap or peanuts. Books For Africa cannot allocate funds for the mailing or shipping of book donations to our warehouses. This helps us keep our operating costs lower so that we can ship more and more books to students who need them.

If you are interested in getting confirmation of when your books arrive at the warehouse, we recommend asking USPS for tracking on your package! Because the BFA warehouse receives and sorts thousands of pounds of books every week, relying on volunteers to do so, we may not be able to locate and confirm receipt of specific individual packages.

We encourage Book Drive Captains to also collect money to help get book donations to the Books For Africa warehouse. Please contact b...@booksforafrica.org for our Book Drive Media Kit to help with your book drive!

Via our Books Save Lives initiative, we are taking meaningful action to make our world a more empathetic and accepting place by addressing censorship and championing diverse books. Books Save Lives employs a three-pronged approach:

I grew up in libraries, or so it seems. My mother and I would take regular trips to the branch library near my house at least twice a week, and those trips were enchanted. The very air in the library seemed charged with possibility and imagination; books seem to have their own almost human vitality.

But over time, I had become more of a book buyer than a book borrower, and I had begun to forget how magical libraries are. I never stopped loving libraries, but they receded in my mind, and seemed like a piece of my past.

And then I started taking my own son to the library, and I was reminded instantly and vividly of how much libraries had meant to me, how formative they were to my love of reading and writing, and how much they mean to us as a culture. The next thing I knew, I was investigating the largest library fire in the history of the United States. The life and times and near-death experience of the Los Angeles Public Library was a story that felt urgent to tell, and gave me a chance to pay tribute to these marvelous places that have been such an essential part of my life.

The life and times of a girl who has always loved animals, or how I went from dreaming about Rin Tin Tin to having dogs, cats, chickens, fish, cattle, turkeys, and guinea fowl, with guest appearances by horses, lions, and canaries. Available as a Kindle Single from Amazon.com.

Our quarterly book preview is one of our favorite things to put together for the blog, because we get to be loud and enthusiastic about all of the great releases coming out over the next few months, and there are some really great releases.

Thank you for supporting these lofty goals. Your choice sustains a family business with over 500 local booksellers, and allows us to follow our passion for getting the right books into the right hands, 365 days a year.

I like to sign my books on the title page, which is where most books are autographed, though you can also sign the inside cover. In some cases, you may want to sign the front cover, though this is rare and would probably only be appropriate for a coffee table book or something that will be on display.

Fifty-one percent of educators reported that their classroom library/reading area would be considered a literacy rich environment across all areas of the checklist. Yet, the survey reveals that a full 30 percent of classroom libraries fall short of meeting the literacy rich guidelines and educators currently see no way to meet them.

Fifty-four percent of educators report having 10 or fewer books per child in their classroom libraries. On average, educators also estimate that less than half (40 percent) of their book selections represent diverse cultures and almost one-third of educators do not consider their book collection to have an adequate representation of diverse cultures (First Book Literacy Rich Environments Survey, 2022).

First Book reaches 5 million kids each year in low-income communities across North America through a powerful network of more than 575,000 individual educators, professionals and volunteers specifically working with children in need. This is the largest online community of its kind.

First Book Research & Insights conducts qualitative and quantitative research, providing essential insights that guide the field and helps us identify what students need to overcome learning barriers.

Founded in 1992, First Book is a nonprofit social enterprise building a world where all children have access to a quality education. We are on a mission to ensure that all children, regardless of their background or zip code, can succeed by removing barriers to equitable education because education transforms lives.

The Apple Books app is free and there is no subscription. Audiobooks and ebooks are priced individually, and thousands of free audiobooks and ebooks are available. You can also sample audiobooks and ebooks for free while you browse.

Yes. Apple Books makes it easy to find the most anticipated audiobooks and ebooks. Search for the title and select the Pre-Order button to confirm the purchase. The title will be added to your library automatically once it is available. To preview upcoming releases, look for the Coming Soon section in the app.

During the 2021-2022 school year, more than 1,600 books were banned from school libraries. The bans affected 138 school districts in 32 states, according to a report from PEN America, an organization dedicated to protecting free expression in literature.

But what are the most commonly banned books in America, and why are they considered controversial? Here are the 50 most commonly banned books in America from the 2021-2022 school year, with data supplied by PEN America.

The children's book is based on the real-life story of two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, who formed a bond at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. After zookeepers saw the pair trying to hatch a rock as if it were an egg, they gave the penguin couple their own egg. Roy and Silo subsequently raised the chick, Tango, as their own.

PEN America states that "the banning of a single book title could mean anywhere from one to hundreds of copies are pulled from libraries or classrooms in a school district." The data doesn't consider duplicate bans per district in its unique title tally, but each separate ban is counted in the overall rankings.

As soon as Jazz Jennings could speak, she told her parents that she was a girl, despite having been assigned male at birth. She became a spokesperson for trans children and co-wrote a book entitled "I Am Jazz" about her experience. It was banned on five separate occasions during the past school year.

This suspense novel, published in 1978, is about teenagers kidnapping and murdering their strict teacher. These themes caused the book to go through five bans over the course of the previous school year.

Alice Sebold, known for her more famous best-seller "The Lovely Bones," saw her memoir "Lucky" pulled from school bookshelves six times in the 2021-2022 school year because of a graphic depiction of the rape she survived in college.

Outside of the content of the book itself, there was further controversy after Anthony Broadwater, the man who was convicted and imprisoned for Sebold's rape for 16 years, was exonerated. Sebold has publicly apologized for having mistakenly identified the wrong man as her attacker.

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