ePub books not syncing between Maverick iBooks and iPad

The 'on this iPad' section is showing you what you have on that iPad, not what you have available on your Mac to sync to it.

If you select the 'Books' tab instead (to the left of 'on this iPad') you should then see a list of the books/PDFs that you have in your Mac's iBooks app and be able to sync/apply that selection to your device.

that is exactly where I was talking about. This only shows 1 book and its the only book I have purchased via my iPad. However, iBooks has 30+ books in it. Including 20 I have purchased or downloaded via iTunes store and 10 others I cannot seem to sync.

You are able to open the other books that you have in your Mac's iBooks, and in iBooks have you tried the 'File > Move Books from iTunes' just in case that makes any difference ?

Here is what my iTunes "Books" library looks like:

Here is a sample of what my iBook library looks like:

When I attempt to move my books from iTunes, I receive the following error:

There seems to be bugs somewhere, not sure it it's iBooks, iTunes, or both. I've just gone through the books/PDFs that I have in the iBooks app on my Mac and what shows in iTunes as being available for syncing to my iPad - and though all the books/PDFs that are in iBooks show, I also have 3 additional PDFs showing that I used to have but which are no longer on my Mac.

HarithRani wrote:

Hey, calm down everyone.

There IS indeed a solution to this. You only have to do 2 simple steps that all your books are wirelessly updated no matter where you annotate them, on Mac with Mavericks or on iDevices running iOS7.

On Mvericks, the auto update feature is already set to be syncing. Go to the iBooks Preference > General and check the Sync Notes, bookmarks etc. This is a default setting. So there's nothing to do.

Then go to your iDevice and open up Settings > iBooks > Check the Sync Bookmarks and Sync Collections.

Then comes the magic. Everything will set up and sync automatically. Everything from notes, highlights and colections.

Voilla! 😎

Thanks worked like a charm but the only problem is that imported the new collection I had made ie only the title of the collection but none of the books. so dont know what to do

This worked for me. I connected my ipad via usb to my mac. Opened my itunes on mac and did what the man said.

My workaround for viewing an epub file I downloaded on my iMac (and then viewed via iBooks) on my other devices (MacBook, iPad, iPhone) was to send the downloaded file to Evernote (which syncs as one would expect/hope to each device within a matter of seconds) and then from Evernote it gives you the option to open the file in iBooks on each device. This is fine for a few files but I would not like to have to do this if I had a large library of such files.