Enabling "Sync Books" in iTunes wants to remove songs

I just installed iBooks on my iPhone 3G and wanted to sync the books I've downloaded on iTunes. The "Sync Books" option was disabled, and when I try to enable it I get the following message:

'Are you sure you want to sync books? All existing songs, movies and TV shows on the iPhone... will be removed.'

Why does it want to delete my data to allow me to sync my iBooks?!

13" MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 5, 2010 5:35 PM

50 replies

AnjaHex

Level 1

8 points

Aug 16, 2014 1:03 AM in response to khungui

exactly!!! aint nobody got time to resync the whole music library just to put a single pdf into da phone!

KaGSXII

Level 1

0 points

Apr 6, 2015 12:13 AM in response to kkleokrish

With updates to IOS and OSX the easiest way to manually add books to iBooks on an iPad is to copy the books out of the iBooks app into AirDrop.

The Ipad will receive them straight into the iBook app.

mlosjps

Level 1

4 points

Apr 10, 2015 11:25 PM in response to emahyar

THANK YOU!!!!!! This worked GREAT for me!!! UR AWESOME!! 🙂😍

May 5, 2015 5:28 PM in response to draco33333

This is a work around the get the PDF's onto your mobile device.

http://techchannel.radioshack.com/sync-ipod-deleting-music-1664.html

May 4, 2017 12:20 AM in response to draco33333

I can't get my books on my iPad in iBooks!!!

iBook won't sync to any of my devices and simply doesn't list any of my books or PDFs in iTunes.

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Enabling "Sync Books" in iTunes wants to remove songs