iBooks PDF's lost after updating to iOS 9.3

Elemax wrote:

Well, 9.3 update was crucial for many iBooks libraries, especially large. My iPad air2 library of over 3k epubs was ruined. All order was lost, part of books disappeared or lost their covers, the app itself stopped working. I had huge hopes for ios10 after sending them my crash logs, but no. All problems are still here. iBooks is useless for me now, trying other e-readers, Switched to Kindle, then Nook, didn't like them much, now Marvin :-(. Very, very disappointing.

For your iPad I recommend MapleRead SE. I've moved my ePubs from iBooks to it. It has much better sorting options, user interface options, etc. than iBooks.

https://www.maplepop.com/web/mr/index.php

Check out http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=276074 for support.

Thanks, looks promising. Will try it later since my App Store "is not available" right now, lmao.

How did you move your books from iBooks? It's over 3 gb of space for me, don't want to have 3k of duplicates.

Well, it was easy for the books I already had in Calibre on my Mac. After I edited the metadata to get those books that were in a series to have the series name and position in the series, I exported the ePub versions to a folder on my desktop. I then used MapleRead SE's PC Upload function to add groups to MR on my iPad. Now the books I bought from the iBookStore are another matter and is pretty convoluted. If you check my profile here, I THINK you will see my email address; if not, join the MobileRead forums and send me a private message (same user name) and I'll try to walk you through it. AD doesn't want us posting our email addresses publicly.

My iPad Mini 3 is a 128GB model so I didn't worry about having duplicate copies but I only have 2.18GB of books.

Will do and thanks again :-)

I Think I figured it out, none of my PDF's were showing on my iPad, I tried everything I read on here except that I don't have a Mac.. Then I open up iBooks and clicked on the "All Books" at the top and I saw the "Hide iCloud books" at the bottom so I clicked it and the ALL my PDF's and ALL my books reappeared.. It worked for me, I hope it works for someone else too.

To recover your PDF files, save any PDF to iBooks and they should all restore

THANK YOU. This worked for me and I now have all my pdf stuff back on an old iPad mini 2 I use just for reference.

The contents of the built-in apps such as iBooks, Music and Videos/TV have never been included in a backup