Buy books on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac
- Open the Books app.
- Tap or click Book Store.
- Browse for a book, or search for a specific one. When you find a book that you're interested in, tap or click it.
- To buy a book, tap or click the price.
- The book appears in your Library in the Books app.
Read books
Organize your library
In the Books app, you can find all of the books, book series, PDFs, and audiobooks that you purchase from the Book Store or Audiobook Store, or that you manually add to your device.
Sort your books
- Open the Books app.
- On your iPhone, tap Library. On your iPad or Mac, tap or click All under Library.
- Tap or click Manually.
- Choose a sort option, such as Title, Author, or Recent. Don't see Sort Manually on your iPhone or iPad? Just swipe down on your screen, then the Sort Manually option appears.
See your books as a list
To see your books as a list instead of a grid:
- On your iPhone or iPad, tap the List View button
. - Or on your Mac, click View > View As from the menu bar, then click List View.
If you don't see a book in your library
If you don't see a book in your library:
- Turn on iCloud on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Go to Settings, tap your name, tap iCloud, then turn on both iCloud Drive and Books. Then go to Settings > Books. Under Syncing, turn on iCloud Drive.
- Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or update your Mac.
- If you previously deleted a book, redownload the book.
- If you previously hid a book, unhide the book.
Discover more ways to read
- You can listen to audiobooks in the Books app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Or use iTunes on a PC.
- You can save copies of PDFs from emails and webpages to the Books app.
- You can also add DRM-free EPUB file format books, books that you create with Pages, MP3 audiobooks, AAC audiobooks, and Audible.com audiobooks to your Library.