How to get a pdf in iBooks onto my iPhone?

This could be because of the indexing issue I was talking about before. It takes some time until iTunes reads all the ebooks on iBooks Mac and makes them available to sync. Maybe a restart of your Mac and reopening iTunes will help you see all 37 ebooks.

Well, this may work.

1) Add whatever pdf into the new iBooks

2) Make sure it appears with the blue sash

3) Select pdf

4) Go to File > Add Collection. All of your divisions on your ipad should be there e.g. on mine I have books, articles, etc. Choose which collection you want the pdf to go into

5) Go to File>Share>E-mail. E-mail the file to yourself.

6) Open the just sent message in mail or your ipad/ipod.

7) Click attachment. It should appear. Click again and it should ask you if you want to open the doc in iBooks. Say yes.

8) Document should appear on your device in the collection you chose for it back in step 4.

Hope this helps.

This solved my problem. I did as you said and now all ok. I suppose iTunes doesn´t update automatically with iBooks

bluevoice it doesn't work , after restarting the next day my mac i've got 37 ebboks in mac/ibooks and 32 in mac/itunes and ipad/ibooks and no possibilities to add anything else

I give up with that stupid apple ibooks , dropbox works fine

8020 I tip my hat no I shall not use emails in my supposed modern ios 10.9 and ios7

SIMPLY GO TO iBooks Mac app > Files > Move Books from iTunes

then all your pdfs will be in booth iTunes and iBooks !

I hope this helps

I was pulling my hair about this as well, and figured out that you have to, after adding a pdf to the library and assigning it to a collection if you like, you still have to go into iTunes and tell it to include it in the sync for each device.

I found the solution for syncing PDF's to iPhone or iPad. First, connect your iPhone or your iPad to your computer, And if it automatically syncs, let it do so. Then with your iTunes window open select the device in the left-hand column, whether that's the iPhone or iPad. Select the "Books" tab and check the box that says "select books". At that point you should be able to scroll through all of your books or PDFs that are already on your phone, Or if nothing is on your phone, you won't see anything. Do not quit iTunes at this point. Then, open iBooks and drag your PDFs into the iBooks window while iTunes is still running. You should see the PDFs that you've placed in iBooks now appearing in the iTunes window. Once they are all in the iTunes window under your Books selection, you can individually select them or click sync "All Books". It is a horrible bug and a hard workaround. Obviously, Apple has not fixed it. But this is the way to sync properly without having to email your PDFs to your devices. All that to say, when iTunes sees your PDFs, they will then sink to all of your devices. If you neglect to do any of these steps in the order mentioned above, your PDFs will not sync properly.

Thank you Jennybelle, your answer is the exact fix

Thank you, this solved my problem of not syncing to my iPad 2. Hopoefully Apple will make it so the books will automatically sync like they used to when they were kept in iTunes.

Hello fellas. I know its old thread. But I've a problem about ibook from my iphone 5 not mavericks. I know Ibook has been release for mac os x not ios. So I've close to 300 mb of pdf book. I tried to add a library for pdf on my iphone 5 ios ibook app not ibook mac os x. But it doesn't working. Any suggestion. Thank You.

Appreciated it. Anyway. I found a best way to put pdf format from small to large size on my iphone and ipad via solved a problem w/o itune. Thank You.

Mike

After many try I give up , ibooks is useless , impossible to synchronize , that application doesn't work in no way

I dont want to find a good tricky way to use it I just want to use it

I go back to dropbox