iBooks downloading multiples copy bug?

I also have this problem. Some books have multiple entries, and I can't even open them in iBooks. They're just there, and some also has "transfer in progress" icon. I'm using new iPad with 5.1.1 and 2.1.1 too.

Hello,

Had the same thing happen here:

I decided to sync my iTunes book library to the latest iBooks on my "New iPad" ™, over a thousand books. The operation went smoothly but then on the shelves of iBooks some books had multiple undeletable copies (with an empty transfer bar acoss the cover). Most, if not all, of these problematic books were downloaded in 2010.

One had over 60 such copies... In the iBooks app, deleting the complete copy of the said book and then downloading a new copy of the same from the online store caused the disappearance of most of the useless copies, only three remained. I then switched the iPad off (completely) and upon reopening iBooks after restarting the remaining bad copies disappeared along with almost every other uncomplete books, just a few remained.

Don't forget to check for duplicate books in iTunes after syncing your device.

I hope this will help solve your problem.

I wanted to try your advice but I can't. I don't have a complete copy of the book. In my case it is Summer's Path by Scott Blum. Everytine I download a book or open iBooks it keeps duplicating, I have so many copies now that iBooks is completely unusable :(. Everytime I try to download a complete copy of the book so I can delete it afterwards it just won't download. I already tried to delete iBooks and reinstall it but the problem just came back, perhaps because my books were stored in iCloud. I really don't know what to do anymore :(

I have the same problem. For certain books there are over100 entries none of them usable. This is a terrible bug and unacceptable. Theye are undeleteable. Has anyone a solution. I have reinstalled Ibooks and reset the ipad deleting all files but no joy. If this goes on I will get rid of my Ipad

Peter Rowan

Me too, but can't remove this books, only download.... Apple, add a feature to will remove content from purchased list....please ;(

I just had the same problem too. I have an iPad 2 and when I first downloaded three books that I had on my iPad before the last update it worked fine, but then I wanted to update the cover art, so I updated it in iTunes and just dragged them back to my iPad without removing them first. This is what I think did it. After that there were about 10 copies at least of each book, at first they all had progress in their little bars but after a while they just became empty and sat there like that. I tried restarting my iPad but that didn't work. I don't have my iTunes library synced because I used to use another computer for it, so I didn't want to check sync and have everything be deleted. Instead I went to iTunes and went to the "on this iPad" tab and selected the books that were being copied. Then I deleted them and when I did at least 7 of each of the copies disappeared. So then I navigated away from that library in iBooks and went to my purchased books. I renown loaded a completely different previous book...mo copies so when I returned to my original library the rest of the copies disappeared too. Miracle! So after that I just went back to iTunes and put the three books back on my iPad and now they work fine and still have all the notes I previously put in them. Hope this works for you too!

I had this problem. I was unable to delete the duplicate books. So I found the best way to remove duplicate books is as follows:----

Just delete the ibook app from your device, and then download a new edition from Itunes. This will remove all duplicate books.

You will then need to sync your device with your computer to restore all bought books..

Go to settings, find ibooks, turn off "show all purchases"

This way if you want to download the book, you should go to the store and download from the purchased book section

@widartoadi, cheers, this has solved my problem. I had multiple duplicates all waiting to download, most infuriating. Now I have exactly what I should.

nice and easy - thanks

This solved my problem too. Thanks.

My wife had this problem on her iPad 3. I deleted iBooks and then reinstalled it. Synced purchases and the problem was solved.

Delete, reinstall, and sync worked for me.

Delete, reinstall and sync worked perfectly for me too.

Although if this is a bug then it needs to be fixed - very distracting!

I don't think it's a bug. I think it's a book downloading that gets corrupted and then all the errors result. JMO