iBooks not syncing

Try syncing via iTunes on your Mac/PC.

You have to tap the bookmark ribbon if you want iBooks to sync between two devices.

great point tamara, easily overlooked

I accidentally tapped the ribbon on my iPad and then I was using the iPhone and noticed that the iPhone picked up where I left off on the iPad.

Thanks a lot for posting this!

Accidentally or not your post helped me a lot. I was going crazy trying to get my iPhone and iPad to sync to my furthest read on either one.

So if I understand correctly, you have to sync both your iPhone and iPad on your computer to have the bookmarks sync and be able to jump to last point read? And you actually have to set a bookmark, it's not automatic? Is there no way that this can happen through my mobileme account? If not, Kindle is much better implementation of this than Apple's.
I have upgraded my phone to iOS4, etc.

Okay, I think I have a similar "bookmark sync" issue here.

iPhone 4 / iPod Touch (2g) - both iOS4, iBooks 1.1, Sync Bookmarks enabled

I bookmarked a page from a book stored in iPhone4, then I opened same book in iPod Touch with a hope that I can resume from a bookmarked page on iPhone4. BUT, this didn't happen. I don't see any bookmark.

How do I sync bookmarks between devices wirelessly?? Book is epub file.

^ never mind my prev post. All is working fine. :]]

I've tried everything with no success. I would appreciate clarification on a couple of issues if someone would be so kind.

1. Will bookmarks sync wirelessly or does it have to be via a usb/itunes wired sync?
2. Will bookmarks sync for epub files that were not purchased via itunes?

I've attempted several times to get bookmark syncing to work with no success. Any further direction would be very much appreciated.

+Help, please!+

There is a lot of incorrect information on this post.

1. Syncing between devices requires that you add the books to iBooks via the computer first.
2. Once any epub book or PDF is on each device, it will find the furthest read location automatically, you do not need to bookmark it or do anything else.
3. When you close a book, PDF or the iBooks app, it will sync the location of what you read while it was open. When you open the iBooks app on another app, it will quickly update the furthest location read.

I did notice that if I redownloaded a book from the store and then tried to sync between my iPhone and iPad, it didn't work for me either. A sync with my computer to "calibrate" the iBooks app solved that problem.

Thank you for taking the time to clarify these issues for me.

It was very much appreciated.

Mine is a itouch 3g 8GB..when i first installed ibooks i synced some epub files but when i tried synching some more epub and PDF files the next day itunes says its synced but the newer files do not appear in my ibook..the older files are there but am not able to add any newer ones

@ganny1069 - Try deleting iBooks off the iPod then do a sync and select iBooks to be synced. This will reinstall iBooks on the iPod. Now sync the books you want to sync. Working better now?

I bought an iBook via my iPad and wanted to read it on my iPhone 3G. I simply redownloaded it onto my iPhone without connecting my iPhone to iTunes.

iBooks syncs last page read between my iPhone and iPad automatically with no problems. I can read from my iPad at home then pick up where I left off on my iPhone when I'm out of the house with no syncing issues.

I didn't have to tap the red ribbon or create a bookmark--saving last page read between devices was automatic.

I had this issue as well, but found it went away if I quit iBooks on my iPad or iPhone before launching it on the other. Once I did this, the syncing occurred, and with a nifty page flipping animation.

So, the syncing for me did not occur unless I quit iBooks before trying to launch the app on the other device.

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