Stop books going to the cloud

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...)

Purchased books from iBooks Store will alway appear there for you to re-download if needed.

Are you saying the books you've synced/downloaded are not in your iBooks app?

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.

Unfortunately, no real solution as of yet.

Regards,

I also have this problem. Were you able to find a solution to it?

Gents

Still no solution yet??

WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS TO RESSURECT STEVE JOBS! TIM COOK IS KICKING AWAY APPLE'S CUSTOMERS!!!