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Q: Sync ePub books between iBooks on Mavericks and iPad/iPhone?

is that possible?

 

books bought from the ibooks store sync just fine. just all the other books won't sync from A to B...

Posted on Nov 4, 2013 7:04 AM

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Q: Sync ePub books between iBooks on Mavericks and iPad/iPhone?

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  • by sjordi,

    sjordi sjordi Nov 4, 2013 7:03 AM in response to phybsz
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    Nov 4, 2013 7:03 AM in response to phybsz

    Same for me. Very upset to say the least.

    I need ALL my iPad books into Maverick iBooks. It's just common sense.

     

    Manually adding all the ePub and PDF files to Maverick iBooks is one thing, but then how do you retreieve ALL the notes and highlights, bookmarks from the iPad on those same books in Maverick??? No way I will lose my notes.

     

    Any idea or were the developers clueless?

  • by phybsz,

    phybsz phybsz Nov 4, 2013 7:07 AM in response to phybsz
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    Nov 4, 2013 7:07 AM in response to phybsz

    same problem with PDFs :/

  • by phybsz,

    phybsz phybsz Nov 5, 2013 3:28 AM in response to sjordi
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    Nov 5, 2013 3:28 AM in response to sjordi

    accidently found out how to sync the library:

     

    drag and drop an ebook (that you haven't purchased in the ibooks store) from finder into iBooks on your Mac

     

    open up iTunes and connect your iPhone or iPad - you should now see the "books" tab again next to apps, music etc...

     

    in the "books" section, choose "sync books" and "all books"

     

    press the sync button (lower right corner - don't know what its called in the english version) - your iBooks on the Mac should now be copied over to your idevice and vice versa. all the stuff that was on your iPad before should now also show up in iBooks on your Mac (including PDFs )

     

    this will at least keep your library synced on all devices, I think this won't sync bookmarks and notes though

     

    hope this helps a little bit

  • by phybsz,

    phybsz phybsz Nov 5, 2013 4:05 AM in response to phybsz
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    Nov 5, 2013 4:05 AM in response to phybsz

    and finally good news: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3033309

     

    tried it and it works - everything in sync including bookmarks and notes for my epub books...

     

    this means librarysync through itunes and notes and bookmarks are going to be synced over the air...

  • by sjordi,

    sjordi sjordi Nov 5, 2013 4:49 AM in response to phybsz
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    Nov 5, 2013 4:49 AM in response to phybsz

    I can confirm,

    just installed Maverick in a VM; launched iBooks on the Mac, and then manually added all the missing ePub files I had form other sources, mainly O'Reilly.

    They appeared in iBooks mac and were in the correct categories, and notes, bookmarks and highlighted sections are present... That's good news.

     

    They should add a mechanism to push books anyway.

  • by phybsz,

    phybsz phybsz Nov 7, 2013 6:26 AM in response to sjordi
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    Nov 7, 2013 6:26 AM in response to sjordi

    Sweet :) yeah step by step ;)

  • by cbx4evr,

    cbx4evr cbx4evr Dec 2, 2013 3:52 PM in response to phybsz
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    Dec 2, 2013 3:52 PM in response to phybsz

    The Syncing questions seems to be answered. I came here with the same question but in the end I didn;t want to sync between my Mac and iPad becasue I didn;t want all the stuff from my iPad on the Mac.

     

    Anyway the "epub" files I did want to transfer to the iPad were adding simply by dragging them to the iTunes window when the iPad was connected.

  • by kues,

    kues kues Dec 4, 2013 6:53 AM in response to phybsz
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    Dec 4, 2013 6:53 AM in response to phybsz

    To sync your non purchased epubs with ipad in Mavericks

    Make sure the books you want to sync are in iBooks on Mavericks

    Then Go to File in iBooks and click Move from iTunes

    I know it sounds the opposite but this will sync with iTunes so that your ibooks show up in iTunes for syncing.

  • by marcfrombc1,

    marcfrombc1 marcfrombc1 Dec 4, 2013 10:09 AM in response to kues
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    Dec 4, 2013 10:09 AM in response to kues

    perfect solution, solved my problem that I was researching for hours...

  • by kues,

    kues kues Dec 4, 2013 10:51 AM in response to marcfrombc1
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    Dec 4, 2013 10:51 AM in response to marcfrombc1

    Great, Can you check my response as Solved your issue.

    Thanks

  • by leetut,

    leetut leetut Dec 17, 2013 10:41 AM in response to kues
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    Dec 17, 2013 10:41 AM in response to kues

    none of the above works for me

     

    i need to sync ibooks from my imac to my iphone

     

    it should be easy but i cant do it

     

    no option anywhere on imac, in itunes, or in ibooks to do this

  • by aadinugroho,

    aadinugroho aadinugroho Dec 18, 2013 6:03 AM in response to kues
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    Dec 18, 2013 6:03 AM in response to kues

    This works perfectly! @kues

  • by dragonfey,

    dragonfey dragonfey Dec 19, 2013 2:27 PM in response to kues
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    Dec 19, 2013 2:27 PM in response to kues

    Thank you so much! I read on my iphone and have been trying to get a friend's new book on there for a month now. You have no idea how much such a simple solution is appreciated.

     

     

  • by imshook,

    imshook imshook Dec 27, 2013 3:07 AM in response to dragonfey
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    Dec 27, 2013 3:07 AM in response to dragonfey

    Hello, does anybody know how can I move the books from my iPad to my new Mac without losing them because that's what syncing will do to the books in my iPad.

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