How to get a pdf in iBooks onto my iPhone?

Have you tried going into iTunes and unchecking it to get it off your ios device? Not sure if you can delete it from within iTunes or not. I have not tried that yet.

This is just busted. iBooks is allegedly supposed to sync via iCloud. It doesn't sync PDFs, only stuff you BUY from the iTunes store. Everything else syncs wirelessly but I have to go plug in a cable just for PDFs? And if I have multiple Macs, there's absolutely no consistency on what syncs and what doesn't sync. iBooks is a great idea, badly executed and plainly forgotten.

Too bad. Apple was onto something and then left it on the sidewalk to die.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkXtm0B4_Q

iBooks will work maybe some day ? for the moment I uninstall it from my MAC and lmy iDevice

I use Dropbox with a folder named ebook and it works fine, at once, for all devices and the synchronization is perfect

Unless you want to know how to transfer / move to your iPhone / IPad / IPod Touch a PDF files from your mac & pc w/o iTune. then click on below

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I dontwant to transfer a pdf , I want to use ibooks for all or not

and iTunes should stay an application for music not for appstore or idevice sync

I can do that also. I had hoped that sync would work between my iMac and my iPhone 5s. Disappointed.

Thanks. I was hoping there was an easy solution and this worked perfectly.

This has been said but bears repeating. The absolute simplest way to get a pdf into iBooks on your phone is to email it to yourself as an attachment.

Then open email on your phone, click the file, and then click the "share" box in the top right corner. Choose "Open in iBooks."

But, there is No Reason that iBooks shouldn't sync these files automatically.

Also I guess you have to reverse engineer this process to get pdfs from your phone to your Mac?

So pointless.

emailing seems like a lot of steps to go through to me. If you store the pdf in dropbox, and open dropbox on the ios device, then select the pdf and choose 'open with' --> iBooks. It imports it and keeps it available even if you loose your wireless network connection.

That's my preferred way of getting a pdf into iBooks.

removing ibooks from my iphone was the best idea, this app is 100% crap

maybe some day it wil work normally

This htread had some helpful answers and some not. I appreciate the help so will try to summarize what to do here.

First, to sync to your phone you have to plug in or use wireless itunes syncing.

Remember, your books are in the cloud as a purchase just like a song from Itunes, but your PDF's are just like a word document or other random file. They are on your computer and not the iCloud, that service is for backing up your iphone and making purchases available. If you take a breath and think, it makes sense that your PDF's are not saved in this manner. That being said, if iBooks as an app gave you the option to sync with other devices running the app that might be desireable. Of course, this would take a while to sync and download and then people would complain about the app boggin down to sync all the time!

Second, import all your itunes books into ibooks. You will be prompted to do this when you click on books in itunes now but as a precaution you can also do it from the "File" menu in iBooks by choosing "move books from itunes." This will help if itunes was open at the same itm eas ibooks and updates, etc.

Third, sync your phone with itunes. Although the books are "in" iBooks for viewing on your mac, itunes knows where they are so they will be listed under the sync books option in the iphone sync menu. Either check all or pick the ones you want to sync to your phone. They will be moved.

Fourth, to make this painless set up itunes wi fi syncing, select all books as the syncing option and itunes will upload whatever changes each night when your phone is plugged in.

Fifth, if it is a key doc or you ar ehaving trouble, just go with the share buttong and email yourself. It never hurts to have more than one source to grab your key documents from.

Thanks to thos eon this thread that oferred guidance.

I suggest sync PDFs into iBooks in iPhone wirelessly.

I'm using Fly Transfer to sync PDFs between my iPhone and computer. The good things is you can not only read PDFs on the app after transfer, but you can import those PDFs to iBooks as well.

How to : http://iphonetocomputers.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/transfer-pdf-ibooks-iphone5

I got a few pages into this discussion before finding my own solution and thought I would post it in case it helped somebody. Apologies if it's already on here.

In iBooks, select File -> Move Books from iTunes...

I know this seems sort of backwards, as you're trying to get the books to show up in iTunes, but after moving everything from iTunes to iBooks, all of my books and PDFs were available for syncing to my iPad in iTunes.

Best of luck!