8.4 iBooks update is terrible.

I Have the same problem. I tried to move them again into the categories and delete the ones in the PDF but then it completely deletes it. As now all the reports are together in PDF iBooks is extremely slow and I can t see anymore which reports I have read and which ones I have not

georgette

Georgette,

If you delete them from the PDF folder, it will delete them from iBooks. What I found is if I moved them from the PDF folder, as if they were new files, to a collection, then I could organise that collection and it would remain in the order I had imposed. The newly moved item(s) got shunted to the top of the PDF folder shelves, but as I don't use that folder then I wasn't too bothered about the organisational mess that it is.

What happened initially when upgrading iBooks is that all my PDFs got resynced back to my iPad and, despite appearing as before in the different collections I had made, they would not stay in any type of order. Hence the reason I deliberately moved them again from the PDF folder on iPad, to confirm where I wanted them to be, and then I was able to organise my shelves and they would stay put. But in addition they still appeared in the PDF folder. I don't know if this is what is technically happening, but the PDFs we see in our personal collections in iBooks act as if they are just a short-cut icon to where the files really reside - in the PDF folder. So deleting them from that folder truly deletes them from iBooks.

Perhaps to meet your needs you need to forget using the system PDF folder as a repository for knowing what PDFs you have read, or have to read. Just create a folder, for example, for New Reports, move any new PDFs to that collection and then transfer them out once read. Unfortunately it will take a while to deal with all the existing PDFs in your iBooks - identifying which have been read or not. But once that is done, my experience is that my collections are now stable and are acting as they were before the upgrade, apart from the new behaviour of the PDF folder.

S

I'm also suffering because of the update...

In the meantime while we are waiting for a fix, I hope...

If you add your PDF files with a category (added in iTunes) it can be a little more easy to find the PDF files in iBooks. For example I had some PDF'S about dogs without a collection folder, after the update there where buried in hundred of other PDF's... But in the PDF section (where you see everything now) if you see the files by Category you can see them sorted in a more helpful way. I found the PDF's about dogs in the category "Mascots". So I have "fiction", "Manual", "Art", etc. Those categories are no exactly how I have my collections but it helps me see similar PDF'S sorted so it makes it easy to identify which PDF's are possibly out of a collection so I can give them one now... Maybe "Books to read".

Is a good thing I had the habit of entering a category for each PDF I added each time... But even if you didn't you can enter it in iTunes at any time, so you can sort them in iBooks that way.

In additon to the one-folder, loss of organization, I have discovered that when I try to send via email any of my iBooks PDFs, the program changes the PDF's name in my attachment to my correspondents -- to just PDF.pdf, or to the first name of an author, in the ones I've tried. This is AWFUL.

I guess Apple did not fix this with iOs 9 as I can see same PDF's in my PDFs folder than I see in other folders that I have manually created. This is a super mess as I do not know, where the PDFs are linked to and I cannot move them. I assume that this is still the default folder, when saving new files into iBooks?

Was this problem fixed in later versions of iOS? Thanks for the update.

It's still working as designed