Q: How can I sync selected books to my ipad via the itunes interface?

I assume that right now you have selected to only sync "selected book's".

Well as I just figured out Apple has created a redundant way to sync books.  You can as you said "sync selected books" using the devices settings, but as a result the check marks in the Books library are rendered useless and you are forced to painstakingly select the books you would like synced. 

However, if you sync a"ll books", then you can use the checkboxes in the Books library and only checked books will synced. 

The only problem with this I guess is that if lets say you have an iPad and an iphone and you don't want the same things to be synced to both of them, one of them will have to use the "sync Selected" feature as otherwise yu cannot seperate the library to sync with two different devices in two differnt ways.

Hope this works.

Oh, how I wish that would work!

I know the thread is over a year ago, but I came upon searching for a solution to the exact same problem.  iMaestro, you've described what's needed exactly--a way of checking all of them, and then deselecting a certain limited subset.

Unfortunately, when you check Sync Books, All Books, the selection portion is then greyed out.  Maybe this problem was introduced with the latest iTunes version!

I think I'll be stuck having to painstakingly check most of a set of books, rather than just uncheck the dozen or so that clutter up the list.

Oh, related to that.  I'm assuming that there's a way of deleting the books entirely...  maybe that's another solution.

Hello AstroMacMan

Things can change a lot in a year, indeed I see that when you click "select all" the window is greeted out.

I am slightly confused though about your predicament as if once you see this, you then click on your "books" library tab in the upper left hand side (if you enable the old iTunes view), in the area where you first select your device, like I said earlier, you can easily either select the ALL books by selecting or deselecting master checkbox (after hitting ctl+A) at the very top beside name which sorts the name if you click on it. Then you may proceed to choose the ones you want and don't want and sync.

Here too by the way you can delete the books you don't want anymore.

I hope this isn't too confusing.

Just ask if you still need help.

IMaestro

I have my iTunes set to synchronize all books - and every month or so I find it set to synchronize selected books.   Sometimes settings in iTunes inexplicitly go away.