Enabling "Sync Books" in iTunes wants to remove songs

Of course it's in my iTunes library. And it's on my iPhone and has been manually added over a long period of time. What I WANT TO DO is manually manage music and videos and automatically sync books. Why is that so very hard to for Apple to accomplish given all the changes they have made to iTunes over the years?

Further, there is no warning AT ALL in iTunes that if a user checks the box to auto sync books that the choice will also apply to music and videos.

There is a way to individually move books onto iOS devices.

First, identify the folder that all your books got moved to when you downloaded iBooks. It used to just be a folder in iTunes Media. Now you have to go hunting for it, and pretty deep too.

/Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/i Books

Vwha-la, there are your books. I suggest making an alias (read: shortcut) and placing that alias someplace easily accessible. Now, select which book you want to add individually, and just drag it onto the iOS device icon in iTunes, as you would have before.

Not as intuitive as Apple champions, but not impossible. Hope this helps!

Copying from /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/i Books doesn't work for me and is annoying anyway because the files there are not named as original.

This method does work for me, via dropbox... put the epub files in a dropbox folder on your Mac and then navigate to them via the iphone dropbox app. Then open each epub file in turn, it will give an 'unable to view error' but you can click the download button in the bottom right corner which gives the option to 'open in iBooks', click that and it imports into iBooks. It's a pain because you have to do each book in turn but at least it works.

I bumped into this issue today and found that the simplest solution is to start apache server on the mac, put the PDF into the /Library/Webserver/Documents directory and download it from the iOS device using the URL. To start Apache, see http://brianflove.com/2013/10/23/os-x-mavericks-and-apache/.

Found and have been using a super simple way to transfer books & pdfs from a Mac -> iPad or iPhone...

It's called CloudUp

After you install it on your Mac it puts an icon in your menubar AND (here's the best part)...

•In the Finder on the Mac, all you do is Right-Click on an ebook file (or pdf) and select "Share On Cloudup" from the pop-up menu.

CloudUp then almost immediately provides a confirmation notification AND auto copies the newly created url link to your clipboard.

•You then simply, paste the link (url) into a note in the Notes app (on the Mac)-be sure you have Notes syncing in iCloud-(or you could email it to yourself etc).

•Go to the iPad, go to Notes app and click the link you put in the note, voila it takes you to the ebook (in Safari) where you can...

a) click download (sometimes have to click "More->Direct URL" if download does not work)

b) then tap "Open in iBooks" (if this disappears after a few seconds, simply tap somewhere in the window in Safari and it will show again)

The ebook will now download and open up in the iBooks app on your iPad.

This is the fastest and most efficient method I have found yet.

***This is also a fantastic, super easy way to share any type of document with someone else - a huge time saver***

https://cloudup.com

-It is a FREE service (you do have to create an account) they are very generous with how much you can share and files size - amazing service!

-Been using it on Mavericks 10.9.5 (works great on OS X 10.10 & 10.11 too)

-I am in no way affiliated with CloudUp, I'm simply sharing a "better mousetrap" solution that I have been using for a couple of years now.

Hope this is helpful.

@ SGSMumbai,

Thanks a lot, I made it.

And apple wonders why ppl are going to Androids easy drag and drop features, Apple better start making it user friendly instead off all these headaches just to do simple stuff

Is it at all possible to add more apps to the lists of apps with privileges? For example, if I download the nook app, can I set that as a defult epub reader instead of iBooks?

Just use Aiseesoft iPad Transfer Platinum 7.0.16.19229 Multilingual

Copy all books,movies, music, ... to itunes.

Library in Itunes now contains all the existing books, ... from you ipad !