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Q: Am I the only one who feels suckered into saving my PDFs to iBooks?

Am I the only one who feels suckered into saving pdfs into iBooks?

iPhone 6 Plus, iOS 9.3.2

Posted on Jul 1, 2016 8:53 PM

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Q: Am I the only one who feels suckered into saving my PDFs to iBooks?

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  • by Rysz,

    Rysz Rysz Jul 1, 2016 8:56 PM in response to jburns47
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    Jul 1, 2016 8:56 PM in response to jburns47

    Probably Not, but if you need help with something specific, you have to describe your issue.

  • by jburns47,

    jburns47 jburns47 Jul 1, 2016 9:09 PM in response to Rysz
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    Jul 1, 2016 9:09 PM in response to Rysz

    I've been saving pdfs into ibooks from emails and the internet for quite awhile on my iphone 6+. Suddenly, yesterday, they all disappeared except those four "books" i had downloaded from Apple. I have them all on my ipad air 2 but unless I email them one by one to myself, there doesn't seem to be any quick way to get them loaded back into the iphone. I spent about 15 minutes on an Apple support chat with "Alan" today and he agreed that I should be able to airdrop them from ibooks. Guess what? no such capability from ibooks. Very disappointing that he actually didn't know any more than I do. From now on, i'm just going to save them to Adobe Reader. Too bad because ibooks seemed so convenient until now.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Jul 2, 2016 3:07 AM in response to jburns47
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    Jul 2, 2016 3:07 AM in response to jburns47

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  • by jburns47,

    jburns47 jburns47 Jul 2, 2016 9:59 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Jul 2, 2016 9:59 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Odd that in the email notification to me about your post, I saw your question but it's not visible here.

    The problem is that the pdfs in my iphone ibooks all suddenly disappeared. Turns out that ibooks has no airdrop capability so I can't simply airdrop them from my ipad to my iphone. The only apparent options are to do a complete restore from computer based itunes backup which will restore my phone to a point where i don't want it (except that I'll have my ibooks pdfs back) OR email about 200 pdfs from my ipad one by one to myself and reload them into my iphone ibooks. Most of the pdfs in my ibooks are business related. I've been in the habit of grouping them so that I can simply either show a client something or email it to them out of ibooks. Very convenient unless they all suddenly disappear like they just did a couple of days ago.

  • by gesttev,

    gesttev gesttev Jul 2, 2016 10:15 AM in response to jburns47
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    Jul 2, 2016 10:15 AM in response to jburns47

    I don't know If you're issue has been resolved, but i have my own solution for this. Which involves 2 apps. I use ftpmanager free which allows you to download from safari and save it on your device and than it allows you to select to open it in iBooks. If you want to transport your pdf to another device i use instashare. Hope this helps.

  • by Doug Holm1,

    Doug Holm1 Doug Holm1 Sep 9, 2016 1:40 PM in response to jburns47
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    Sep 9, 2016 1:40 PM in response to jburns47

    No, you are not the only one. iBooks is a low-priority rip-off. I've been trying to break free from it for weeks, by emailing myself all the PDFs I created in it then ....

     

    Today, I realized that when i emailed a created email to myself via iBooks, it isn't delivered. That, after sending myself 10 and deleting them from iBooks.  Four years ago or so, I lost all the PDFs and ebooks I had stored in iBooks when an upgrade destroyed all the folders I had spent hours creating and sorting. Supposedly, one can restore material in iBooks by disconnecting and then reconnecting to iCloud.

     

    It seems as if iBooks is a low priority to Apple because there are fewer readers than there are music fans.

     

    Does anyone know how I can restore my iPad's ability to email things to myself? It's not just in iBooks. In Safari, if I try to use the Mail icon to send myself the URL, that doesn't work, either.

  • by mollib,

    mollib mollib Sep 13, 2016 11:54 PM in response to jburns47
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    Sep 13, 2016 11:54 PM in response to jburns47

    Part of the problem here is that iBooks randomly deletes stuff that was manually added to it—that feature was added in iOS 8. It was exacerbated in iOS 9 and persists in iOS 10.

     

    You've probably found a solution by now, but I save all epubs and PDFs to Dropbox before opening in iBooks. That way I always have a copy, no matter what iBooks does. I also keep some in Evernote. And now that Evernote and Dropbox both deal well with PDFs, you almost don't need iBooks for them at all.