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iPad Books not appearing in macOS Finder
When I select Books in the macOS finder, connected to my iPad, there are no books.
I have, I think, about 800 books. I see them both in the finder under iCloud Drive/Books and in the Books app, both ...
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Turn off iCloud sync for Books
Sonoma 14.4.1. System Settings > Internet Accounts > iCloud > Apps Using iCloud: Show More Apps. I have turned off iCloud sync for all the apps in the provided list (screenshot #2), but for ...
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Local copies of books are deleted off device when iCloud is disabled
So I made the fatal mistake of enabling iCloud on iBooks, when it has unresolved issues that people have been complaining about for years. Now I want to turn it off. Issue is, I can’t get my books ...
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How can I make iBooks on iPad to store all books locally instead of on iCloud?
I have an iPad with IOS 17, and I want to stop paying for iCloud. The problem is that before I started my iCloud subscription I had some books imported in the Books app, and after I started it the ...
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iBooks library is suddenly empty
I have been trying to copy annotated books from iBooks to my computer. This has been unsuccessful. However, in the process I somehow lost my all my books! I think (hope!) they are not actually lost, ...
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All books download on iPhone but also sync reading position and bookmarks?
I'd like to store all my books locally on my iPhone, but also continue to sync my reading progress and bookmarks across devices. How to achieve this?
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How does the Books iCloud folder work?
There is a folder visible in Finder which has all of my books which were manually added (not from the store). Moving books into this folder gets them on to my Books app on the iPad and the Mac.
The ...
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Sync iBooks highlights, bookmarks, etc., without uploading epubs to iCloud Drive
In the past, it was possible to sync (i)Books bookmarks, highlights, etc., through the cloud, without turning on iCloud Drive for the Books app, or uploading personal epubs (not purchased from Apple) ...
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iCloud deletes my PDFs in Books App; How do I get them to be stored locally again
So, last month I decided to enable iCloud for Books in order to transfer all 400+ of my PDFs to my iPad automatically. However, in doing so, all of my PDFs were deleted from my iPhone!
I did the whole ...
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iCloud shows storage being used but files are not visible
iPad 2017 (currently running iPadOS 13)
I primarily use my iPad for reading and have about 200 documents in Books (PDFs and ePubs; none downloaded through Apple.)
When I go to the iCloud settings in ...
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How does one fix the insufficient memory error in uploading to Apple Books?
I am running Big Sur 11.5.1.
Occasionally when uploading non-Apple ebooks, I get a message that there's insufficient iCloud storage.
In fact, I have 150Gb free on my iCloud account.
Searching via ...
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Books on iPad no longer downloading purchased books
I have 1,076 iBooks purchased from the iStore in my iCloud. I have, starting just this holiday morning, the ability to read 0 iBooks on my iPad in the Books app. Is there any other app which I can ...
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How to stop iPhone from deleting local music?
I download music to my iphone.
When I try to play the media offline some days or weeks later, it says I cannot because I am offline. They have cloud symbols next to them.
How can I stop this happening?...
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Books on Mac won't download epubs from iCloud [duplicate]
I use Books on Mac (Big Sur) to organize my non-Apple epub library. Books successfully syncs across devices, and when I want to read a book on my Mac, I often need to click the cloud download button ...
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Apple Books won't download any books/files saved in iCloud only on Mac (macOS Big Sur)
I can't download any books/files I saved with iCloud in the Apple Books app on my Mac anymore (it worked before though). Books from the Apple Books store will download fine. I can also download all ...
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How to force Books to keep local files offline?
I have many PDF and epub books that I have manually added to my Books library. However, when I try to open them, many times they have to be downloaded from iCloud because somehow they were uploaded ...
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Files Synced to iCloud from iPad not available on icloud.com
iPad 9.7" 5th Gen. (2017 model) | iPadOS 13.6.1
I have a lot of PDFs stored in Books. I have set up syncing to iCloud (or at least I think I have), such that every time I add a book I see a brief ...
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Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive (on Windows)
I need to get the iBooks that are saved in iCloud Drive, using Windows, in a folder path and / or command line solution.
This is a spin-off from Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive which only ...
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Downloaded ibooks get deleted when icloud sync is turned off, even under airplane mode
Recently, I had all my iBooks deleted from local storage as detailed in this question: Books automatically deletes my books when offline, and when there is enough space on device.
I went through and ...
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iBooks Apple ID sign in prompt accepts my password but fails and re-asks, repeatedly
I am on a new MacBook laptop running 10.14, and trying to sync my book library on iCloud to the Books app.
When I open the Books app it asks me to sign in to Apple ID, and it accepts my password. But ...
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Is there an API to Apple Books sync metadata?
Apple Books can sync books over iCloud. Is there an API I can use to access metadata on my books, such as title and bookmark locations.
This question is a follow up to the unanswerable, How to sync ...
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What happened to my books in iPad update?
My books got uploaded to iCloud and then disappeared. Can't find my 1000+ PDFs and epubs anywhere. I turned on an off, syncing, but to no avail. I updated iOS to 13.3, and the Apple Books ...
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Books Art Not Downloading from iCloud
My books are no longer downloading the art (book cover) from iCloud on my iPhone. They show up on my Mac. I noticed that the new books look different in the finder as well. Anyone one have any idea ...
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Does iOS 9.3.5 prohibit iBooks syncing via iCloud?
Is there anything that would prevent me from syncing iBooks with iCloud in iOS 9.3.5 on an iPad 2?
I have a working iCloud account in good standing, with three devices connected: an iPhone SE (MP832B/...
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My Books app in my ipad pro deletes/disappears my pdfs. I am on IOS 12.2 and it is was updated a couple weeks back without issue
What did happen is that I was reading one of the PDFs and the next time I opened it, the Book app was frozen. So, I shut off the ipad. When I turned it back on, I realized that I went from 130 PDFs ...
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Books automatically deletes my books when offline, and when there is enough space on device
There is something strange going on with Books on iPad and iPhone. It keeps deleting some books locally, keeping them in the cloud.
It's frustrating because it happens when I'm offline and I simply ...
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Can't transfer PDFs & eBooks from iMac to iPad 3 on iOS 6
I see there are loads of questions on this general theme, but I couldn't find one that was precisely . my situation. If I just missed it, someone please point me to it.
I have an iMac running Sierra ...
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How to set multiple-author metadata for an item in iBooks?
While I can edit books' author metadata in the list view, I can’t seem to be finding a way to set multiple authors for a single title. Is there any way to do this, so that I can have, let's say, two ...
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Download epub that's on iCloud
I have an epub that I unfortunatley deleted from my pc. It is however, still on iCloud and available to me on iBooks (when it's synced with icloud). I would like to download that epub again to my pc, ...
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iOS 11 how to prevent iBooks from moving my books to the cloud?
I see that my iBooks seems to be uploading my books to the cloud without keeping a copy on my local device. So when I reopen the app, I have to wait for the book to do finish downloading (which is a ...
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iBooks couldn't connect to the iBooks Store
I just set up a new iPad with a clean install and logged into iCloud and tapped 'Use iCloud' when starting iBooks. When I try to download a previously downloaded book from the 'My Books' tab in iBooks ...
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How can I restore iBooks stored in iCloud from a Time Machine backup?
I found that many of my books and PDFs had been removed from iBooks.
I'm not sure exactly how it happened but recently I had both used the Storage Management app (to remove a few specific books) and ...
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Sending ePubs from PC to iOS iBooks via iCloud Drive?
So my goal is to use iCloud Drive to hold all of my ebooks and organize accordingly. On my iPad and iPhone, I have enabled iCloud Drive and by iBooks in Manage iCloud Drive, toggled that on too.
From ...
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Copy Books from Mac to iBooks for iPhone without using iCloud or iCloud Drive
I would like to read all of my books on my iPhone in iBooks, but there seems to be no way to copy the books into iBooks. I can't use iCloud/iCloud Drive because there is not enough space available in ...
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Locating the iBooks folder in iCloud Drive
I'm using iCloud drive to sync my e-books via the iBooks app.
I noticed that the synced files show up in the All My Files view. I tried to find out their exact location, it seems to be iCloud Drive /...
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How to copy a book from iBooks with highlighting?
I have a book on my iMac at work which has highlighting all over the book. But when I put the book in my Dropbox and open it on my MacBook at home there are no highlights. Is there a way to preserve ...
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How to export books from Ibooks when using iCloud Drive
Aloha,
I would like to turn off iCloud Drive.
But I activated in iBooks iCloud Drive.
Now I don't see any "official way" to export all MY books out of iCloud drive.
The only way I currently found is ...
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Force iBooks on iOS to sync with iCloud
I have my iBooks setup on both my iPhone and Mac so that their contents are always in sync. If I delete a book on my Mac, then it gets deleted on my iPhone, too. However, it usually takes 24 hours ...
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iBooks not syncing/uploading to icloud
I'm using iBooks 1.7 on macOS Sierra (but have had this issue since iCloud syncing via iBooks has been available). Books added via file > Add To Library are not being synced across my devices.
I ...
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Epubs from iBooks not showing up in iTunes on Mac OS X Sierra
I have about a few hundred of epubs that I’d regularly been syncing on my iOS devices until I’ve updated to Sierra a few days ago, when suddenly only a few books showed up in iTunes.
I tried turning ...
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ibooks aren't syncing across iPhone and iPad
I have downloaded ibooks from App store which sync without a problem
I have also download ibooks from the internet, but for each device I have to manually download them and also I lose all my previous ...
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Does iBooks sync metadata across devices via iCloud?
Just updated to using the new iCloud-enabled iBooks for PDFs, etc. On my Macbook, I've also gone and fixed the metadata for all of the books, but it doesn't appear to sync that updated metadata to my ...
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Specfic epubs downloaded outside the iBooks store not syncing on a particular mac
I have a handful of epubs I downloaded outside of the iBooks Store and read them across two different macs and an iPhone.
For reasons I cannot explain some books’ data (highlights, notes, place in ...
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iBooks iCloud Storage Limit?
I have enabled iCloud storage in iBooks on my Mac(s), iPad, and iPhone. I have been slowly importing PDF and ePub books into iBooks on my MacBook again so that I have a central location to store them(...
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iCloud Books: Failed to Load Book Because the Requested Resource is Missing
Since updating to iOS 9.3 and 10.11.4, I've decided to finally try and get my eBooks all fixed up and synced between my devices, since I swap between my iPhone and iPad often when reading.
I'm using ...
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iOS 9.3 iBooks for iPhone starts with a blank shelf screen
I noticed that since updating to iBooks using iCloud with iOS 9.3, I'm starting to see this "blank screen" page when staring iBooks. The books are still there, searchable by name or visible when ...
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Storing iBooks in iCloud
Can iBooks be saved to iCloud then deleted on my iPad but still be available on iCloud? The reason for asking this is that my iPad is running out of space, so I want to store my iBooks elsewhere.
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How do I access my iBooks on iCloud?
There is no icon for iBooks or options to include iBooks on my iCloud whatsoever.
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How to move my iBooks library from one mac to another?
I have a lot of books in my iBooks Library. They are not purchased from iBooks Store so it is impossible to do it automatically via iCloud. What should I do? Some backup? How? Maybe should I copy one ...
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Application for manage and sync PDF collection
Unfortunately is not possible synch the PDFs files using iBook, so i'm looking for an alternative.
I have a huge collection of PDF file and i work with different computers.
I'm looking for an ...
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