College of Medicine Apple Books
We use electronic books for Case-Based Learning (CBL). The MedTech team uses a mobile-device manager (MDM) to push the books to your iPads . Once pushed, the books will appear in your Apple Books app library.
Cases are pushed to your iPad about an hour before your CBL sessions. For your part, make sure your iPad is connected to Wi-Fi , and follow the troubleshooting steps below if you think you haven’t received an expected book.
These books are also available for download in E.Flo MD, but this file format only works on Apple devices.
Books created by the College of Medicine are protected resources that should not be shared outside of your cohort or the university.
Read an ePub
Open the Apple Books app 
on your iPad . Tap an electronic book to open it. You’ll briefly see the cover page. Swipe right to navigate through the book. To use interactive elements that are embedded in the book (like videos), simply tap on them.
Organize your Bookshelf
Your Apple Books library can include electronic books, audiobooks, and PDF files. To help control the chaos, sort your library by file type or create Collections to group related books.
Add a Book to a Collection
- Tap the three dots next to a book.
- Choose Add to Collection from the menu.
- Select an existing collection or tap New Collection at the bottom of this screen.
- Tap Done in the top-right corner.
Save a Book to a Collection
Find a Book in a Collection
- From your Library, tap Collections in the left sidebar.
- Select the collection from the menu that appears in the left sidebar.
If Apple Books Don't Show Up: Troubleshooting Tips
Contact MedTech! We’re always ready to help as issues arise. Sending a quick message in your MedTech Slack channel is one of the best ways to get immediate support.
In the meantime, here are some fixes:
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Use the Search feature located in the top-right corner and type in the title of the book.
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Change how your Library is sorted. Go to the top-right of your Library and tap the Circled ellipsis . Select Sort By Recent. Switching to List View is also helpful when you need to locate a book quickly—it shows your CBL patient’s name, which makes the book easier to find.
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- Fully restart the iPad . Sometimes the book is pushed to the iPad , but it doesn’t show up—a quick restart of the iPad can help to have it appear.
- Restart the iPad by pressing and holding either volume button and the top button until the power off slider appears.
- Drag the slider, then wait 30 seconds for your device to turn off.
- To turn your device back on, press and hold the top button until you see the Apple logo.
- Close the Apple Books app and reopen. If the fonts in the book look weird, the interactivity is missing, or pages that should be there aren’t, close the Apple Books app and reopen it.
- Close the Apple Books app by swiping up from the bottom edge and pausing in the center of the screen. Then swipe the Apple Books app up off the screen.
- Close the Apple Books app
- Delete the Apple Books app and reinstall from the App Store. If you are consistently not receiving books, deleting and reinstalling the Apple Books application has been found to help. To delete the Apple Books app, go to the Home screen, and press and hold the Apple Books icon until a menu pops up. Then tap Delete App. Reinstall it by searching for the Apple Books App in the App Store.
- Fully restart the iPad . Sometimes the book is pushed to the iPad , but it doesn’t show up—a quick restart of the iPad can help to have it appear.