Q: Sync thousands of eBooks to iPad
I have several thousand eBooks loaded into iBooks on my iMAC 27" computer. I'm trying to sync iBooks with a brand new iPad mini4 64 GB. The folder size of the iBook books is about 8.2GB, so the iPad mini 4 has plenty of storage capacity to hold all books.
When I select in iTunes Books "Sync All Books" is shows me the correct number of books in iBooks. When I hit APPLY the transfer to the iPad starts. However, after 500 - 600 books / files the transfer stops. And on my iPad I see only around 200 books. Tried it several times, always the same issue.
Strange is also the fact that when I select All Books in iTunes, the book list in iTunes shows only about 1/3 of the amount of all books in my iBook folder.
I did set both iBook and iPad to Sync Bookmarks and Sync Collections.
Any suggestion how to get all those books into my new iPad mini 4?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Posted on Mar 14, 2016 11:27 AM
Since upgrading to ios 10.11.4, when accessing iBooks, I was asked if I wanted to sync using iCloud. Which I did. Then, about 100+ iBooks showed on my Mac but not on my iPad or iPhone, despite having the same apple id on all 3 devices and the correct syncing buttons activated. When I looked at the iBooks LIST on my mac's iBook library (next to All books, collections, authors and categories), many of my books appeared as Zero KB in size, yet I could still open them on my Mac. Yet they didn't show on my other devices. I deleted all my Zero KB books. Then went into TRASH, moved them to my DESKTOP and then dragged them into iBooks once again. This time, they showed as having a KB value greater than Zero and now appear on all my devices. So: delete, restore, re-import. Should sync.
Posted on Apr 8, 2016 1:44 PM