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Books and pdf documents not showing up

I've tried to sync several pdf documents to iBooks, but they don't show up. Also trid to download books from the store but they never finnish downloading. The synced pdf documents in itunes (under my iPhone) is greyed out and can't do anything with them.
Any kind of help is apriciated.

iOS 4

Posted on Jun 22, 2010 2:21 PM

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Jun 23, 2010 9:18 AM in response to peder66

Guys read this!
The pdfs and books are there in the phone, and by phone i mean iPhone 3G without the S.
But the problem is, the iPhone 3G simply does not have the hardware to support the full functionality of iBooks. therefore, what most of you are experiencing is, simply put, the extreme lagginess of the phone. the phone is too slow to show all the books, for example, the guy with over 100 books. books are loaded before pdfs are loaded, therefore if you are able to see the books you will have to wait another maybe 5 mins to see the pdfs? that was what happened to me, i left the phone alone for 5 mins and everything showed up, but extremely slowly.

Conclusion: iBooks works like a snail on iPhone 3G, but for the faster iPhone 3GS or the iPad, such a problem should not exist, unless you have hundreds of books

Hope it helps!

Jun 23, 2010 11:16 AM in response to yunayunayuna

I am unable to see one pdf in the ibook app on a 3G after selecting them in itunes to sync but I can view a pdf if I email myself so not sure what you base your statement on, agreed ibooks on the 3G is poor performance compared to the kindle app, its takes 10s to open then several more seconds to open a book, once the book pages have loaded its not too bad. The books|pdf select button did not appear until I viewed a pdf received in the email app then was present all the time until I deleted the pdf received via email.

Jun 23, 2010 3:12 PM in response to peder66

I have several pdf files from itunes U that show up in the itunes sync books tab, I select these and do a sync but they do not appear in the pdf ibook app, if I use itunes add to library from the file menu then the pdf files appear when synced? Also these imports are duplicated in the itunes u folder and the itunes books folder.

This is on a 3G phone using iOS4, does not seem to be an ibooks discussion for the iphone, maybe the category will be moved standalone apps soon.

Jun 24, 2010 3:48 PM in response to peder66

Absolutely the same problem as mentioned above. All set in iTunes, synched, and all are in the phone, but do not show up in iBooks app.

Too bad. I was excited about trying this as it seemed so simple and convenient. Perhaps it is a 3G problem as was mentioned in earlier posts. I hope this gets resolved at some near point.

By the way, I waited in a line of 1000 at the Apple Store beginning at 5AM today for the new phone. No iPhone 4 for me yet. Apple ran out. Good luck friends!

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