How to get a pdf in iBooks onto my iPhone?

It works fine here, what is exactly your problem?

Do you see all 41 ebooks when you select to the "Books" tab of your iOS device in iTunes?

as explained : the 28 books in my ipad are the one put with ios 10.8 , I cannot add any pdf ebook with itunes from my mac to my ipad

when I select the "Books" tab of my iOS device in iTunes , I get 28 books

ibooks for mac is useless, itunes for ebooks is now useless too

I think this is related to the initial import (relocation) of ebooks/pdf's from iTunes to iBooks on your Mac. I had a similar problem. What I did is delete all books/pdf's from iBooks on my Mac to get a fresh start. Then I added again all the ebooks pdf's to iBooks on my Mac (redownload all purchases and add all pdf's again). After this step all added books appeared on the "Books" tab for my iOS device in iTunes and I am now able to sync all ebooks pdf's again.

Also after you added all your books again, it seems that iTunes does some indexing, so it could take a few moments until all added ebooks/pdf's appear on the "Books" tab for my iOS device in iTunes. If you still don't see them, restart your Mac and open iTunes again. They should now be all there ready to sync.

Peter Bowden I have all the last versions everywhere

Bluevoice

I have deleted all the books from my mac > ibooks and now the tab in itunes is empty , and now all my ebooks in my ipad are gone, all is lost

then i have added 3 pdf in ibooks and now it works

but someonr can explain WHY but WHHHHY ? you need that stupid itunes to sync your ebooks between the 2 ibooks ?

thanks to all

Just try my tip above and you will succeed in getting all ebooks/pdf's on your iOS devices. Seems that the initial import (relocation) of ebooks/pdf's gets the index corrupted and only deleting all books and adding them again forces the index to get refresh.

In my case I alsonoticed that after deleting all books there was still one book in iBooks (for Mac) that kept reappearing. It could not be opened but the book front was still visible in iBooks.What I did is download it again and delete it. Than I checked the ibooks plist with a plist editor and it showed 0 books so at that point I started by adding all my books/pdf's again. Now working like a charm.

bluevoice

yes now it works , i have deleted all and re-download all

but a sync button in mac > ibooks is missing

"Now working like a charm" I agree , a charm after a long fight

thanks

Furthermore on iTunes, Apple took the decision in the past to incorporate all sync functions into iTunes and I think this is kind of weird. Apple did this because she thought this was convenient, because there was just one app to manage all kind of media (music, video's, podcasts, ebooks, etc.)

What Apple should have done is create a standalone Sync app and 5 standalone dedicated apps for music (iTunes), podcasts, video, books (iBooks) and apps. Those 5 standalone apps would be specifically crafted to access / play the media type and would have access only to the dedicated store. This way media could be managed by the user in the standalone app by media type and synced with the standalone Sync app that would do nothing else than just syncing the media between Mac and iOS devices. This is something users would understand.

But how can Apple explain her users now that ebooks from the standalone iBooks application can only be synced to your iOS device from an app that was created for playing music (iTunes)? Where's the logic in this?

In conclusion, Apple is not consistent and what once was "one app to serve them all" (iTunes) is starting to desintegrate in standalone apps (like iBooks) while syncing still remains in the motherapp (iTunes) which is kind of stupid, so Apple fix that!

Great to here it's now working for you.

I understand your frustration, Apple should make a standalone Sync app (remove this function from iTunes) or add a sync function to all standalone apps like iBooks.

Too bad Apple is not consistent, but made a real mess of media management.

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Apple should make a standalone Sync app (remove this function from iTunes) or add a sync function to all standalone app like iBooks

yes

If it helped you please mark the message that helped you solve your problem

I try to find the button 😝

erick.boileau wrote:

Apple should make a standalone Sync app (remove this function from iTunes) or add a sync function to all standalone app like iBooks

yes

If it helped you please mark the message that helped you solve your problem

I try to find the button 😝

Never mind, it seems that only the thread starter can use these tools to mark replies.

it doesnt work AGAIN

I have added 5 books in MAX > ibook and impossible to add them in my ipad , it's crazy !

in itunes I can see only ipad-ibooks but never mac-ibooks , impossible to sync

The iPad "Books" tab in iTunes shows the Mac iBooks available to sync. It's confusing but it's the same thing.

iPad "Books" tab in iTunes = 32 books (and of course 32 ebooks in my ipad)

in my mac > ibooks = 37 books (epub and pdf)

5 are missing and no way to sync them , why only 32 available to sync.