Julypj

Q: No iBook books in itunes

I used to load my books that i had in iBooks to my iPad via iTunes, but now when i connect my iPad to my Macbook it shows 0 books to sync in iTunes, but all the books are still in iBooks, i can't move books or other non Store bought PDFs to my iPad

 

Any ideas, how to fix?

 

Macbook Pro (mid 2010) El Capitan 10.11.4 / Itunes 12.3.3.17 / Ibooks Version 1.5 1110.10.44

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), 10.7.1

Posted on Apr 3, 2016 5:32 AM

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  • by Limnos,

    Limnos Limnos Apr 3, 2016 7:16 AM in response to Julypj
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    Apr 3, 2016 7:16 AM in response to Julypj

    About iBooks - Apple Support

    Download books from other websites

    iBooks supports the ePub file format, PDFs, MP3 audiobooks, AAC audiobooks, and audible.com audiobooks. iBooks Author books are supported in iBooks 2.0 or later on iPad, iBooks 4.3 or later on iPhone and iPod touch, and on all versions of iBooks for Mac. Audiobooks are supported in iBooks 4.3 or later on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

    If you want to add books, audiobooks, and PDFs from outside the iBooks Store or audible.com to iBooks, they need to be DRM-free. You can sync them using iTunes 10.5.3 or later. Some PDFs might not be compatible with iBooks.

  • by Julypj,

    Julypj Julypj Apr 3, 2016 7:30 AM in response to Limnos
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    Apr 3, 2016 7:30 AM in response to Limnos

    This doesn't answer my question at all. I know what file formats i can add or not.

    You can sync them using iTunes 10.5.3 or later.

    This is the part that suddenly stopped working. worked fine the one moment, and suddenly there are no Books shown to sync in iTunes

     

    for that matter i cannot add any books to my iPad , also not those i bought on the store

  • by yguo_FDU,Solvedanswer

    yguo_FDU yguo_FDU Apr 3, 2016 5:13 PM in response to Julypj
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    Apr 3, 2016 5:13 PM in response to Julypj

    You can try the steps following:

    1 Open system preference

    2 Click on iCloud

    3 Click on ''options'' next to iCloud Drive

    4 Cancel ''iBooks'' option first

    5 Select ''iBooks'' option

    Then you may find your books come back. You can synchronize now.

     

    But unfortunately, I find that it only works temporarily. After you reopen iTunes, all the books may disappear again. So you may have to cancel the automatically synchronizing option until next update of iTunes.