Categorize And Manage Your Larger iBooks Library With Ease [iOS Tips]

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Is your iBooks library starting to outgrow those beautiful skeuomorphic wooden bookshelves that Apple provided for you? Have you purchased way too many Star Wars novels, only to find them crowding out your beloved Jane Eyre collection?

Well, there’s a simple way to manage an epic, ever-growing iBook collection, of course (why else would I be writing this), and here’s how.

First of all, decide what categories make the most sense for you, based on the books you own. Should you categorize by genre, subject matter, have a list of favorites? It’s up to you, and you can of course create categories for anything, like “books my mom likes,” or “books that no one should ever see me reading, but that I love anyway.” Ahem.

Once you decide, then, head on over to your iOS device and tap the “Collections” button (on an iPad) the “Books” button on an iPhone or iPod touch. You can then create your own collections by tapping the “New” button, or edit the collection names you’ve already created by tapping on the (duh) “Edit” button. The default categories are Books and PDFs. You can be more creative than that, right? Of course you can.

Once you’ve created the categories, it’s time to start organizing your books. Return to your shelves and tap the Edit button in the upper right hand corner of the iPad screen, or the upper left hand corner of your iPhone or iPod Touch screen. Tap all the books on the shelves that you want to move to the new category, then tap the “Move” button. Notice that you’ll have another chance to create new categories and edit the names here as well.

That’s all there is to it! Enjoy your new bookshelves, and be sure to share with us your interesting (and humorous) categories in the comments below.

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