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I buy quite a few ePub e-books from sources other than the iBooks Store.

I used to use iTunes to sync these to my iPad and iPhone. However, I’m trying to set up my iPad and iPhone to purely sync through iCloud, as syncing with both iCloud and iTunes gets a bit confusing.

Can I get non-iBooks Store ePub files into my iCloud iBooks library, so that they live there? (i.e. so that if I do a restore on my iPad or iPhone, I’ll be able to download them from iCloud again.) If so, how?

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Ah — my question may be a duplicate of this one: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/611/… – Paul D. Waite Oct 25 '12 at 15:46
Please close the question if it is a duplicate. – duci9y Oct 25 '12 at 15:51
Clarified question so that it’s actually asking what I’m interested in, and isn’t a duplicate. – Paul D. Waite Oct 25 '12 at 16:00

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You can email yourself the files, then from Mail, open the files in iBooks.

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Good stuff. Will that get them into iCloud? i.e. if I open the mailed ePub file in iBooks on my iPad, will it show up in iBooks in my iPhone? – Paul D. Waite Oct 25 '12 at 15:44
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Nope, that is only for purchased content. – duci9y Oct 25 '12 at 15:50

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