Stop books going to the cloud

Exactly the same problem here, and the same need:

I WANT ALL OF MY BOOKS BE PERMANENTLY ON MY IPAD ..

But this seems a very hard task, I tried since last two years to find a solution and I do on line research quite often, but still I didn't find any acceptable way to solve this problem.

Is it possible to answer the first question? I am having the same problem and it's 2017. I'm traveling and I need to keep at least one book offline to be able to read but I often have to wait days before finding Wifi and have it back from the cloud.

Please could you just answer if iBook is able to keep a book offline and if not is there another way?

Tha

I have this same problem on my iPhone. I have to redownload my books several times a day and I usually don’t have wifi when I need the books the most. I’ve had it for a while and thought it was just because of the space, but it does it even when I havr enough space.

I have the same problem and for me it is huge and already put me in very bad situation since the same happens with Keynote! I prepared a presentation im my computer and downloaded it on my iPad. It opened normally as should be. Then I travelled to another state in Brasil to give a open lecture in a conference. How was my surprise when I saw that, in the same way it happens with my books on iBooks, my presentation was sent to iCloud! I was in a place with a bad internet connection and thus I simply couls not get my presentation... it is terrible! I lost count of how many times it happened with my books. Brasil is not like US full of WiFi connections all over the places. Sometimes I enter in a bus and when I am going to read I simply do not have my books. Apple is making **** after ****... what a pain!

Hi, thank you for your attention.

Unfortunately already I tried this but it didn’t work. Even downloading a filé (on iBooks ou Keynote) my iPad “decided” who should be on the cloud.... I have no idea how to solve this.

And sorry man, but it is everything but smart... smart is respect the client and ask if this or that file can be send to iCloud instead of simply make you get lost without the files you planned to use.

Hi there. Have you found a solution to this issue yet? I am in the same boat. I'm a pubic speaker and use Pages to create my outlines then export them to iBooks. But both apps will move my outlines to the Cloud unannounced!

I currently have 4G of memory (btw having 'low memory' is no excuse to force someone's files off of their device, otherwise a 32G iPad should be sold as a 28G). This is extremely frustrating as on one occasion it ruined my presentation! I have since learned to double check before leaving the house. No device should be making these decisions for me!

Yes, this is the answer!! Thank you for resolving a problem that has bugged me for the past year - and found me countless times w/o access to content i needed because of poor internet. This should help the 3 pages of people who have been frustrated by this problem.

This feature is driving me nuts. Yes I love that my books sync. But I’ll download a book on my home wifi to my ipad. Then I’ll go to gym and my ipad will delete the local copy and then I have to redownload it at the gym. Problem is the Wifi’s ***** cause everyone is on it and the download takes forever. Or when I’m in the parking lot there’s no wifi and I’m SOL. Yes I can free up space but I dont want to. I want my books to take priority over other garbage or at least be able to disable the feature. It’s like that for all iCloud. So annoying. First World Problems

I have this exact same problem When i copy an epub book from my PC to my iphone, everything initially works fine. The book is copied to ibook, and i am able to read it. However, later on, and usually when i am out of wi-fi range, the image of the book in ibook has a small cloud thingy in the upper right corner, and I am unable to open the book. Ibook attempts to download the book from icloud, even though I never copied it to icloud in the first case. This is extremely infuriating.

The books start off on my phone, but end up only on icloud. I always have many gigs free memory on my phone, there is no reason why icloud should be involved in storing my books.

Please help,

Thank you/

Still having this problem two years later. On an Air 2, easy 10% available memory, yet iBooks will offload files.

I'll download several files to read on a train into work but by the next day when I’m on the train my files will have been offloaded back to the cloud. It’s why I still have an Android phone, as there I have much greater control over my data whereas Apple is seemingly determined to regress back to mainframes and dumb terminals.

Even though there’s a lot of places left in the world without permanent high speed access to the net, with unlimited data. It’s rubbish. I should be able to check a box for a collection and have iBooks keep that particular collection locally available.

I have the same problem (iOS 11.4.1; iPad mini 2 16 Gb; 3.10GB free). My books keep going to the cloud, and when offline, I can't read them unless I find a wifi spot and download them again... and again... very annoying the whole point of an iPad mini (or any iOS device is mobility, out of range of any wifi network if necessary, otherwise I would remain at home with my MacBook Pro...)

If you have enough space then yes.

How much space do you have available on your device?

Hey guys,

Still no solution for this?

Deactivating ibooks in icloud just makes all my books disapear for me.

Thanks

Tudor

If I go by your tip , all the books that are stuck in the cloud disappear from the screen. And I would have to download all again outside of the cloud . And I have several. 😟

Unfortunately Talilia, that’s correct. I have the same problem at my end. Hopefully Apple can come up with a better system, because this is really annoying.