Sync ePub books between iBooks on Mavericks and iPad/iPhone?

For some reason, this answer was a lot clearer to me than all of the other discussion. After reading this I even began to understand Apple's logic, sorta. iTunes is the mobile device sync utility - iBooks is (now) the library manager. Put your books (pubs) into iBooks but sync them via iTunes letting iTunes and iBooks coordinate in the background. Thanks, Mr_Bagger!

Mr_Bagger wrote:

For those who still want to know...........

After you move all your books to the new IBooks app on the computer, and it deletes the normal IBook app on the left hand side of the itunes window, if you look on top of the itunes window after, you will see the word Books, click on that and there you will see all your books in the open window.

Click sync selected books and then select what you need to sync and everything will be fine after!, they will all be on your ipad or phone.

Look at the screen capture below.........

Thank you kues

this worked for me 🙂 thanks!

I have a different setup.

Say, I'm sitting at home on my Macbook Pro. I have an ePub wich I created myself on Indesign. I put this into iBooks (Mavericks). I connect the MBP to my iPad via USB, the syncing works fine via iTunes.
But now I have an iPhone, which is normally connected to my office computer (MacPro). Therefore I won't connect it to the MBP via USB, because I'd loose all my content. So how can I get this ePub to the iPhone (besides driving to my office and copying it to the MacPro and syncing it via iTunes)? It's not working with iCloud, because the ePub has not been bought in the Store.

My impression is:

iCloud and iBooks is fine as long as you're using them with purchased books. Everything else (PDFs or handmade ePubs) is not interesting to Apple, because they can't make money with these. So they're not supported...

My impression is:

iCloud and iBooks is fine as long as you're using them with purchased books. Everything else (PDFs or handmade ePubs) is not interesting to Apple, because they can't make money with these. So they're not supported...

Apple have never stated otherwise.

I found a solution:

If you don't have them on your iPhone/iPad/iPod and on your Mac

1. Collect all ePub-Documents in one folder on your Mac (You don't have to, but it's much easier)
2. Import them on your Macs iBooks by drag and drop

If you have them on your Mac (With notes, bookmarks and marks)

1. Open iBooks and mark all ePub-Books
2. Drag and drop them in a Folder

Then continue here:

1. Mark the ePub-Documents in Finder
2. Right-klick them, go to "share", then "AirDrop" (Alternativ: Send them with e-mail to your own address)
3. Activate Air-Drop on your iPhone/iPad/iPod. Your device will appear on your Mac after a little while
4. After the books loaded, your iPhone/iPad/iPod will ask you in witch app to open them, choose iBooks
5. Notes, bookmarks, marks and last read page will be synced from now on

If you have you're books on you're iPhone/iPad/iPod:

This won't work that good. You have to download exactly the same ePub on your Mac. It might be that your notes are synced now automatically after opening the books on all your devices. Otherwise this might help you:

1. Open the Book on your iPhone/iPad/iPod
2. Tab the "dotted list" button in the upper left corner
3. Open your notes
4. Tab the "share" button in the upper right corner
5. Edit your notes and mark them all and share them (bottom left)
6. Send them by E-Mail to your Mac
7. Continue with: "If you don't have them on your iPhone/iPad/iPod and on your Mac"

Please notice:

1. You have to import the notes manually on your Mac before you export them to your iPhone/iPad/iPod
2. You have to delete the Books on the iPhone/iPad/iPod before your import those from your Mac