ReadStor is a simple CLI for exporting user-generated data from Apple Books. The goal of this project is to facilitate data-migration from Apple Books to any other platform. Currently, Apple Books provides no simple way to do this. Exporting is possible but not ideal and often times truncates long annotations.
Version 0.1.x contained the core functionality: (1) save all annotations and
notes as JSON (2) render them via a custom (or the default) template using the
Tera syntax or (3) backup the current Apple Books databases.
Note that this repository is a heavy work-in-progress and things are bound to change.
See the documentation for usage information.
console
brew tap tnahs/formulas
brew install readstor
console
readstor --version
console
cargo install readstor
Apple Books' database schema can change with any update. The following versions have been verified as working. This is an ever-growing list, if a version isn't listed, it doesn't necessarily mean it isn't supported.
Note that libraries that are synced with iCloud Drive are not supported!