How do I get the iPhone books app fixed or back to how it was before the update?

I'm confused by your question. None of this has changed in any way.

You can still get a definition by tapping and holding on a word and selecting "Look Up" from the ribbon. you can still highlight a word by tapping and holding on a word and selecting highlight from the ribbon. Page numbers are still at the bottom you get.

Maybe if you post a screen shot, someone may be able to help you out.

My iPad is no longer letting me purchase books

I see only the current page number at the bottom of the page. Before the update I had the pagination showing # of #. I adjust the display to show # of # but as soon as I flip to the next page that format reverts to the current page number only.

Can someone please tell me what Phil 0124 told cupcake on how to fix her problem on iBooks with the new upgrade. I’m having the same problem I can no longer tap on a word and have the ribbon come up with one of the choices as definition. Thanks for any help you can give me.

If you click the bottom right side of the page that brings up the menu, you will see the page # of page #s at the bottom of the page and the number of pages left in the chapter at the top of the page but only for a few seconds. Annoying because before the upgrade this info was available all the time. I use it to decide whether I want to keep reading or close the app to continue another day. Also, when I finish a book, I cannot close it and return easily to my reading list Want to Read to select the next book. As others said, why did Apple mess with IBooks at all.

Nope, didn’t work for me. I have Show in Lookup on and I have three dictionaries selected. I’m running iOS 16.2 on an iPad Pro. I can’t get a word to highlight when I tap it, let alone have a ribbon appear. This is very disappointing, especially considering that the kindle app works so well. Does anybody have any other ideas?

while you can still get a definition of a word the interface is so terrible half the time it does not work reliably. The page number at the bottom is very large font and the brightness of the additional info is distracting when reading in a dark room. Apple please fix this.

I had same problem. Read a post here about tapping word quickly, then holding down on word to highlight. This works to bring up dictionary. Not the way it used to work but at least a work around until they fix it.

I works for me when I press down in the word until that bar appears. Just tapping quickly doesn’t work