[amiantos]

Apple Books also syncs position in your own epubs, unlike my new Kobo Sage which’ll only sync reading position in books you’ve bought from Kobo. I still love my Kobo Sage and feel like managing my library with Calibre is better than Apple Books. But the iCloud syncing experience with Apple Books is clearly superior. People give Apple a lot of shit for their built in apps not being great (which is a good argument against them having a monopoly on iOS) but at least they nailed Books syncing.

[sneak]

Apple Books sends what you're reading, and how often, and when (and approximately where, via client geoip) along with your unchangeable device hardware serial number to Apple.

Remember when librarians basically revolted because the patriot act let the feds get library borrowing records without a warrant? Apple's Books app is several times worse. It's nonconsensual spyware, even if you use only your own local files and never engage in trade with Apple for ebooks.

Don't use it.

[arboghast]

Some of their engineers must really love books, and others really hate podcasts.