how to delete book in ibooks

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On a Mac, open the iBooks app.
Go to the iBooks Store (left of the toolbar, at the top).
On the right-hand-side, in the Quick Links list, click the Purchased link.
Books will appear; find the one you want to remove and hover your mouse over the cover.
A little 'x' will appear; click it to remove the book.

The book will no longer come up in iBooks (or any other locations), no matter whether you have set iBooks to show or hide iCloud items.

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answered Oct 21 '14 at 21:34

John CoxonJohn Coxon

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It sounds like this process requires a Mac? How does one do this on an iPad/iPhone? Some books on my iPad have the "Delete" button greyed out. lauhub describes a way to "hide" them on iPad, but perhaps only a Mac can delete them permanently?

Apr 23 '16 at 0:19
I can't see a way of doing it on iOS, unfortunately.

Apr 24 '16 at 15:15
This only hides the book but does not delete it.

Jan 5 '18 at 14:04

Under iOS, it is possible to achieve the same thing according to this page

Open the iBooks app.
Tap "My Books" at the bottom of the screen.
Tap "All Books" in the middle of the upper bar.
Switch on "Hide iCloud Books" at the bottom of the screen.

That's it !

answered Mar 28 '15 at 12:40

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On the Mac you can tick Menu > View > Hide purchases (I work on a Dutch system, so I hope this is correct); on iOS you can do this in Preferences > iBooks > Show all purchases.

You can hide all unwanted books in iTunes on the Mac forever…

answered Apr 25 '14 at 17:51

EelcoEelco

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The OP was asking about iBooks, not iTunes. iTunes in Mavericks only deals with audiobooks, not PDF files or iBooks purchases.

Apr 25 '14 at 17:56
This is simply not true:-) if I open iTunes on the Mac and view my purchases, I can view all my purchased books and hide them. If you prefer iBooks on the Mac, you can do exactly the same thing from the iBooks Store > Purchases tab.

Apr 25 '14 at 18:04
I think I found what the OP was looking for. I've updated my answer.

Apr 25 '14 at 18:45

First, delete the local copy by selecting it and pressing delete and then confirming by pressing the "Delete" button in the confirmation dialog.

Now if the book is displaying with the iCloud icon you can hide the iCloud purchases, by clicking on the "Sort By" menu and making sure "Show Purchases in iCloud" is unchecked. If that was already unchecked, then the book's icon will simply disappear.

answered Apr 24 '14 at 12:58

Ɱark ƬⱮark Ƭ

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a bug or a feature? :)

Apr 24 '14 at 16:20
It's definitely intentional, so I'd call it a feature.

Apr 24 '14 at 17:08
I already found how to remove the local copy and how to hide the iCloud copies, but I would to remove the iCloud copies. Thanks anyway

Apr 26 '14 at 7:04

For iOS, what worked for me was: ibooks / library / choose the view=pdf's or books (note that pdf are always downloaded but books can be in app store aka cloud only) / click button on right 'select' / choose one or more books to remove / click 'delete' / choose the kind of deletion. I choosed keep in cloud and just remove the download. This just saved me almost a GB.

answered Dec 30 '16 at 3:06