How to put your books into iBooks for iOS 11?

After noticing that "Books" (at the same level of control as "Music") has been apparently removed from iTunes for iOS 11, kind of panic'd, since I have some books that I need on my iPad. Not in iCloud, but on my iPad locally. Looked around for how I can put the books that were on my iPad back on it, and the solutions were few and far between, and just about all invalidated by new iOS release changes. So I patched this together from what I found, updated for iOS 11.2.5:

1. Put the books on iCloud Drive. If you have storage limitations, you may have to resort to doing this one at a time.

2. Use the "Files" app to go to iCloud drive.

3. In "Files" app, select the book that you want to put into iBooks.

4. Tap "Share" in the lower left hand corner of the "Files" app, and select "Open in iBooks".

5. This will take you to the iBooks app, with the book open.

6. Tap the "Share" icon on the top left, and select "Copy to iBooks".

7. Profit!

I believe that at this point the book or books that you brought into iBooks are now stored locally on your iPad, so you can remove them from iCloud Drive if you wish or need to. Do keep a copy of them, of course, since you will need to do this again at some point...guaranteed that Apple will create a situation where you need to do this yet again. For me, it was when I got an iPad Pro, and the books from my iPad Air 2 were not restored to the iPad Pro from my iCloud backup when I set it up.

I'm a little miffed at Apple for removing the ability for me to easily put books on my iPad that don't come from the iTunes store, and . It is, after all, my iPad, I paid for it and like to think that I own it and Apple is helping me use it. The above is time-consuming work that should be made easier by the software on the iPad and iTunes, but Apple chooses to make me spend my time going through a mundane set of steps that used to be just plain easy.