I have many PDFs in my iBooks , but I cannot transfer them out or email them? I'm trying to view them in a PDF reader but its as if these docs are permanently stuck in there even though everything is stored in iCloud. I can't figure this out.

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I have many PDFs in my iBooks , but I cannot transfer them out or email them? I'm trying to view them in a PDF reader but its as if these docs are permanently stuck in there even though everything is stored in iCloud. I can't figure this out.

My PDFs stored in iBooks cannot be transferred out reviewed by other apps this is very frustrating because I have many manuals documents and check list all in iBooks but it seems that once you choose to "open in iBooks" this document is now stuck trapped inside here and I am unable to view any of these PDFs with a more dance PDFReader.

Yes I'm enabled iCloud on both my PDFReader's and in my iPad for my documents. I can't even select one of my PDFs to transfer into my dropbox or another cloud storage device so again these documents which I've collected over the last few months or now trapped in this horrible PDF reading program.

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi + Cellular (VZ)

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 5:37 AM

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Feb 19, 2013 5:45 AM in response to Zigfly78

Welcome to the Apple Community.

How did you put them there to begin with.

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Feb 19, 2013 7:12 AM in response to Winston Churchill

When I open emails with PDFs I click on the attachment (doing this all on my iPad) it gives me the option to "open in iBooks", I accept then after that the document is sucked into my iPad but I can't do anything with the PDF after that. Where is the actual file on my iPad? Why can't I email or send these PDFs to my cloud (Dropbox)?

It's like once they go into iBooks they're stuck forever.

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Feb 19, 2013 7:30 AM in response to Zigfly78

Open the email again and save the document to a different app.

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Zigfly78 Author

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Feb 20, 2013 5:41 AM in response to Winston Churchill

No, I have hundreds of technical manuals I've collected over the past few months that would take forever to go find them again, some came from email, some came from downloads on internet.

How do I transfer a document OUT of the Ibooks? The hard data is in my Ipad, otherwise I wouldnt see it in ibooks, so where and how do I go about finding these files and transferring them out.

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Oct 7, 2013 2:09 AM in response to Zigfly78

Hi

Did you find a solution to this? I have epub files i've downloaded to my ipad but not using itunes and they are 'stuck' in ibooks too because itunes won't automatically send them to the cloud??

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King_Penguin

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Oct 7, 2013 3:22 AM in response to ipadgreenie

Even though they aren't iTunes purchases you should be able to copy them over to your computer's iTunes via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases - if you want them in other apps you can then copy them from your computer's iTunes into them.

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Dec 3, 2014 7:39 PM in response to Zigfly78

any update on this? this is such an infuriating typical apple problem.

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Dec 3, 2014 7:56 PM in response to Audentia4

It seems this is the only way: http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/ I was able to get my stuff onto my mac using the trial

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Nov 18, 2015 4:01 PM in response to Zigfly78

I believe even though you see them. They are in icloud drive. Turn on hide icloud drive. They will disappear. So go to cloud. Then you can do what you want.

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