iCreate - UK (2021-07)

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Save important emails as

PDFs in Books

How to save an email as a PDF and read and annotate it in
the Books app on an iPhone

D

id you know that emails can be saved to
the Books app on your iPhone as a PDF?
Once in the Books app, they can be
read and even annotated using drawing tools.
Youmay occasionally receiveemails that
you want to keep. It could be a special event, a
receipt, or something similar. You will not want to
save every email, but sometimes it is very useful.
In this tutorial, we will show how to save Apple
product announcements in Books, so you can
refer to them in the future. A year or two from
now, the emails will not show the contents
because remote images have been deleted, but
the PDF in Books is fine. Save emails as PDFs and import them to
Books. Add them to an ‘Emails’ collection

Emails in Books

Organise, print and share email PDFs
Books for everything
The technique used here to save an email
message as a PDF and import it into the
Apple Books app is not specific to emails,
and it works everywhere. If an app allows you
to print, just spread two fingers on the print
preview to turn it into a PDF, then share it to
the Books app to import it.

Knowledge base

Emails as PDFs
Save emails as PDF files
to the Books app, and
they appear as large
thumbnails, along with
the other eBooksand
PDFs in your library. Tap
a thumbnail to read the
email in the Books app.


Books

Developer
Apple Inc

Difficulty

Time
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Annotate emails
PDF files can be annotated in the Books
app using the usual iOS Markup tools
that appear across multiple apps. Use
them to annotate the emails saved to
your Books library. Annotations show
on thumbnails.

Print emails
Tap the ‘...’ icon in the
lower-right corner of an
email thumbnail in the
Books app to show this
menu. From here, you can
perform useful tasks, such
as printing andsharing
the PDF.


Add to Collection
Organise the library by tapping here and
creating a collection that contains only
emails saved as PDF files. It makes them
easier to find when browsing a Books
librarywith many items.
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