If your iTunes is set to “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library”, then you may want to delete the original from the “ePub Export” folder; just un-comment the (* *) section in the script by removing the (* and *) and saving the script.

on adding folder items to my_folder after receiving the_files
	repeat with i from 1 to number of items in the_files
		set this_file to (item i of the_files)
		tell application "Finder"
			if (get name extension of this_file) is not "epub" then return
		end tell
		tell application "iTunes"
			try
				add this_file

				(*
				-- if you have iTunes set to
				--"Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library"
				-- then you might want to delete the original file...
				-- if so, remove comments from this block and
				-- use the UNIX commands below to delete the file

				do shell script ("rm -f " & quoted form of  POSIX path of (this_file as text))

				*)
			end try
		end tell
	end repeat
end adding folder items to

More info on Folder Actions for iTunes is located here.

Update: I forgot to mention that Software Update will not report v9.2.1(5) as a newer version if you have 9.2.1(4). You must download iTunes from this page at Apple and install it from the disk image.

Each report involved a different script which until now presented no problems. Experience suggests that this is not an issue with the scripts (since nothing about the script has changed) but with iTunes.

I have not seen this behavior myself, but I have not yet done any rigorous testing. Since I have only received two reports at this point my guess is that this may be a problem with something else and iTunes; a misconfigured plug-in or background app. But that may be wishful thinking and the problem may indeed just belong to iTunes.

If you have seen any behavior like this please let me know as soon as you can. I’d like as much information as possible before I test and eventually report this to Apple.

[UPDATE: see here for the fix.]

Now it’s a simple matter of using the “Add as PDF to iTunes” PDF Service in the PDF Adder collection to add the Reader-formatted page to iTunes’ Books category and from there sync to iBooks. Of course, I’ve been PDFing stuff like this from Safari for awhile, but hadn’t thought to try it with Safari Reader. Neat!

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper

…you only need this:

http://dougscripts.com/212

Gee, that’s about half the length now that I see it like that.

The short URL can be found in the script’s entry listed in the “Info” section. And the title of the entry is also a link using its short URL. The permalink for each entry is, of course, still viable, but I hope you’ll use the short URL when possible.