Why can't I sync all my books?

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Why can't I sync all my books?

I'm using iTunes 12.4.1.6, with iBooks 1.5 on OS X 10.11.5, along with an iPad Mini and iPhone 6. My iBooks collection contains about 360 books, including data sheets for electronics components, recipe books, photography books, you name it. The formats include ePub and PDF.

In iTunes I can only see a collection of 53 books, which appear to be ones that I have bought from the Apple Bookstore.

How can I get iTunes to recognise all the books I have in iBooks and sync them across to my iPad Mini and iPhone 6?

If that can not be done, what book reader app can I used on the iPad and iPhone which will allow me to read PDF and ePub, along with annotations, notes and bookmarks?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Jul 11, 2016 7:14 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 11, 2016 7:30 AM in response to Alex M Satrapa

Answered here: iBooks not syncing with iTunes

Short version: iTunes now syncs books from iCloud Drive, not from the local iBooks collection.

This means you have to have enough iCloud storage to fit all your books. If you don't have iCloud, you can't use iTunes to sync your books between desktop and tablet.

In addition you will need enough mobile/cellular bandwidth and data allowance to download the books you want to read. So tough luck if you have 6GB of books, or want to access the instruction manual for your camera when you're out of mobile coverage.

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Answer 2

IvanPr

Level 1

12 points

Jul 11, 2016 2:19 PM in response to Alex M Satrapa

iTunes now syncs books from iCloud Drive, not from the local iBooks collection. - really? Greatest **** u ever make! Ur company going down.... Now you are very disappointed me! What if I am satisfied ios8 and I do not want to install the update? Time to change your device! You limit the users of its products and force to use paid services such as your cloud .... I really did not expect you to like crap

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Answer 3

Jul 13, 2016 1:27 AM in response to Alex M Satrapa

I have the same problem and what I have been using to sync my epub and pdf files from my macbook from my ipad is Appandora. Its free and easy to use. To be honest I like using this instead of itunes.

Here is the link:http://www.appandora.com/blog/download-appandora-management/

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Answer 4

Yer_Man

Level 10

166,026 points

Jul 13, 2016 1:41 AM in response to dilcia marlen

Not on a Mac you don't. That downloads to an exe Windows file. Dangerous for your Windows box too - but then you know that.

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