How do I sync books from Books on the MacBook Pro (Big Sur 11.1) to Books on the iPad (9.3.5)? The guidelines I've found show a button bar for the iPad on which you can click audiobooks, but no such button bar appears when I connect mine.
iPad, iOS 9
Those requirements may be recent. Regardless, the requirements are what they are, and unfortunately there is no backtracking. iOS 9.3.5 is declared obsolete by the Books publishing.
Now if your iPad is not able to upgrade to a newer iOS, you are basically stuck with what books you have on it until you can upgrade to a newer device.
Those requirements are clearly stated. 10 > 9.3.5
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ is where you can offer feedback.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-books/id364709193
Says you'll need to upgrade your iOS to version 10 to use Books.
I have Books on the iPad, loaded with books downloaded before the Mac upgrade to Big Sur (when audiobooks were migrated from iTunes to Books). It's the audiobooks downloaded since the upgrade I can't get into Books on the iPad.
Except that I did manage to get one audiobook into Books on the iPad 9.3.5! It didn't seem that difficult. But the pathway doesn't now seem to work out (see first message). Anyway, thanks for your advice. It seems replacing the iPad (otherwise perfectly OK) is the only way forward on this issue. [Two good devices, an iPod Shuffle and an iPad, made obsolete for audiobooks in one MacBook OS upgrade – not helpful, to put it mildly.]
syncing to iPad
