Pdfs moved in file structure

So i updated my OS to mavericks because my brother said it was ok, even after i had read some poor reviews in the app store. My issue is that after the update happened and i opened ibooks my os has seemingly w/o asking first, took all epubs and moved them into some hidden folder, renamed them, and deleted the old versions, and even did this with some pdf books i had. is there any way to turn this functionality off? i just want to have my epubs/pdfs back where they were with the names they used to be

sberman, many people are unhappy with what the new iBooks has done. We were happy with our books being in the iTunes Library, especially those of us who store their books and music on external drives or NAS, and controlling book/pdf syncing via iTunes.
In order to use iBooks, it wants the PDFs and epubs brought onto the local disk which is completely unacceptable for a lot of us. Also, the renaming of epubs is then forcing a reliance upon the iBooks database and UI to know which book is which. All in all, not nice.
For further info on this issue, see this discussion https://discussions.apple.com/message/24346457

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You can achieve that by using virtual folders, 2007, 2008, etc. and the have smart albums in each of those folder for the months. The criteria for the January smart album would be "Date is the range 01/01/2007 to 01/31/2007".
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I understand the concept of "rolls" and the download from your camera is a new roll and these end up in your originals folder as well.
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Do you Twango?
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