I have quite a few books downloaded to my ipad but would like to transfer them to my WinPC. I just want to free up room on my iPad. I got a lot of things transferred/shared from iPad to PC but can't figure out how to do this?
iPad Air, iOS 10
This is Byzantine beyond belief.
1 On iBooks I did something that was like "Transfer books to from iTunes" I thought I was screwed at that point but maybe not.
2 In iBooks I selected PDF on the bar on the left. I was presented with a window of thumbnails of the PDFs
3 I tried to 'drag and drop' one of the images to a normal directory that was open in a Finder window.
4 Shazam, off it went.
/Byzantine-start
5 Switched to 'list' view.
6 Selected 11 files.
7 Mouse absolutely refused to drag-n-drop
8 Switched back to 'Thumbnail' view
9 Highlighting a number of files and then dragging and dropping worked fine.
/Byzantine-stop
So it can be done and I am sure that this is very intuitive to some people. I hope this helps those who need this feature.
If you connect the iPad to your computer's iTunes and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases they should copy over to the Books section of your PC's iTunes library - for me that has always copied actual ibooks from the iBookstore as well as PDFs/epubs in the iBooks app. If you are using iCloud Drive for the iBooks app that might not work, I'm not using it so I can't check
How to transfer or backup iBooks from iPad to PC
