iBooks "edge case"

Michael E. Cohen, writing for TidBITS:

iBooks is not quite as unreliable and confusing as it was when I wrote about it last year, but neither has it improved nearly as much as loyal iBooks users deserve. Moreover, what little support documentation Apple provides is sketchy and inaccurate, leaving the impression that even the support and documentation departments within Apple are ignoring iBooks.

Federico Viticci, commenting at MacStories about the previous quote:

Cohen’s library may be an edge case with over 700 titles, but the problems he mentions are basic usability issues that should get fixed.

As the developper of an iOS app to manage your ebooks library, let me tell you that 700 ebooks is far from an edge case. A quick query in my stats showed me that the average number of ebooks per active user in Librairie is 1134. This makes total sense when you think about it: people using this kind of apps are serious about managing their whole books library and are voracious readers.

As most Apple apps, iBooks is designed for casual users. The ones who will buy a handfull of ebooks in the iBooks Store and don’t even know what an ePub file is. If you’re an ebooks power user, I have a solution for you