If the book isn’t added to your Library, search for it and click GET to download it.ģ) Once the book is downloaded, decrease the size of the Books app window. Here’s how to save the original file of a book from Mac’s Books app:ġ) Open the Books app and click All from the left sidebar.Ģ) Click the three dots below a book and choose Download. How to get the file of a book in the Books app This tutorial shows you how to get the book files and find the folder where all your downloaded books are stored on your Mac. To get the original book files, you might want to find the location where they are downloaded and saved.

The EPUB format isn’t proprietary and can be used even on non-Apple platforms. If I planned on keeping my external harddrive connected at all times then this wouldn’t have been much of an issue by my computer is a MacBook Pro and I don’t want to make it less mobile by having an external hard drive connected to it at all times, Only when I need it.The Books app (earlier called iBooks) on your Mac stores the downloads of your books in EPUB format. Click to expand.Thanks for the response, So it sounds like I will need to manually direct(as in, tell the Music app) where the Library is located on the external hard drive every single time?( I don’t plan on keeping the external hard drive connected at all times so that’s why I asked what happens if I’m done using the music app (listening to my local music library) for the day and would like to disconnect the external hard drive, if I disconnect it and I open the Music app again without the external hard drive, it will prompt me to create a new blank library, I’m willing to do that once but will that need to be done every single time?Īnd when the external hard drive is connected back again to the Mac and I launch the music app, will it recognize that my music library on the external hard drive is back or will it still be at the blank empty library that I created earlier and will basically need to be told to load my real library from the external hard drive every single time?

Mac open library on external drive