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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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How to automatically transfer all ebooks from iphone to iPad
I am using my iPhone to download and or purchase ebooks (sometimes pdf sometimes ePub). Those are not all purchased from apple.
I would like to know how to transfer them automatically From my iPhone ...
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Finder is not finding my books on the mac
I am trying to sync my books from my mac to my iPAD but the finder is not showing my books so nothing is synced.
Even PDF files are not showing in the finder.
I am using MacOS 10.15.3
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How to export downloaded PDFs from iBooks on iOS to a computer?
My wife has an iPad Air 2 running iOS 12.4.1. She has saved many PDF files into iBooks over the years from various sources such as websites.
Her iPad is dying, and she doesn't want to lose the PDFs.
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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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sync iBooks page currently reading between iPhone and MacBook
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) (macOS Mojave 10.14.6) and an iPhone 7 (iOS 12.4.1).
I downloaded an ebook from the internet, and started reading it on my MacBook.
A few days later ...
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Weird and Inconsistent Behaviour Syncing Books with iTunes
I have spent quite a bit of time debugging this, and still can't figure it out.
While debugging, I ended up turning off the "Sync Books" option in iTunes. My iTunes sidebar, after clicking on the ...
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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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How can two people read the same book on different devices
I have bought a book on iBooks and my girlfriend also wants to read it. But I was wondering if it would cause any problems regarding icloud remembering where one of us stopped reading.
I have tried ...
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How do I force iBooks to sync highlights?
My iBooks books are no longer syncing highlights between macOS and iOS. Highlights I've make on macOS are not appearing on iOS. How do I force this sync to occur?
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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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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 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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Explain and/or fix iBook/iPad sync problem
According to Apple,
You can also add PDFs to your iTunes library on your computer by
dragging and dropping the PDF into your iTunes Book library. The files
will appear when you are preparing ...
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How to sync an iBooks collection created on my iPad?
I recently created a few collections in iBooks on my iPad. When I synced my iPad with my Mac, none of the collections that I created in iBooks on my iPad are visible on in iBooks on my Mac. How do I ...
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Editing and syncing a pdf file on Mac and iPad through iBooks
I'd like to work on a draft pdf file on both a Mac and an iPad and see
the edits syncing invisibly in the background.
I create a new directory
mkdir ~/latex
and save the following latex in ~/latex/...
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How to export Calibre's library for Database Support?
I have used Calibre but I would like get more freedom in exporting it elsewhere for edits.
I would like to do quality assurance of my books, papers and literature.
Calibre does not communicate with ...
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Why won't iBooks wirelessly sync epubs or PDFs to my iPad?
I'm aware of this question but it is now quite old. If I create a collection in iBooks on OSX (Yosemite, 10.10.3) and add a book (epub - not puchased via iBooks), it does not sync to my iPad (3rd gen, ...
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Cannot open PDF in iBooks on Mac
on MacI sync my PDF files normally between my Mac and my iPhone and iPad. Bookmarks and resume options are working between iOS devices for epubs. However, no PDF can be opened in iBooks on Mac — it ...
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When syncing books on iPad, library shown in iBooks also contains books no longer in iBooks
I add and remove books en PDFs to en from iBooks. When wanting to sync my books and PDFs on my iPad, through iTunes, the list of books and PDFs available for my iPad (from iBooks) shown under 'Books', ...
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How can I retrieve the complete "Documents and Data" from iCloud to my Mac?
Is there a way to get to complete "Document and Data" to the Mac?
P.S.: All datas where uploaded via my ipad, most of it is in IBooks, a lot of Pdfs and ebooks (not from the store). The thing is
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How to move from iTunes book library to iBooks app
On my last mac system I used iTunes for syncing some PDFs and other books to my ipad.
Now on my new MBP with Mavericks and iTunes 11 there is no Books library anymore, but a new iBooks app.
I started ...
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Synchronize iBooks across multiple Macs running Mavericks
I'm wondering if it's possible to keep iBooks in Sync between various computers (running Mac OS X mavericks) under the same iCloud account. I set up my iBooks but synchronization only happens between ...
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How do I add hundreds of ebooks to ibooks collection?
I usually use Dropbox to get my epub files into iBooks. This works quite well when I only need to add one file at a time, but now I've received a collection of a few hundred epub files.
I am really ...
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Efficiently organize 100s of externally stored ebooks within iBooks for iPad without doing it manually in collections?
I have hundreds of ebooks stored on an external drive of mine. I don't want them on my MacBook Pro because I don't want them taking up space due to the fact that I don't read ebooks on my Mac. I just ...
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Do PDF documents in iBooks get backed up to iCloud?
Do PDF documents in iBooks get backed up to iCloud?
It is very strange that there is no answer to this on official Apple forums. Searching for this online often brings up Wifi iTunes sync or using ...
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iPad secretly syncing iTunes U slides to my books
Here's the setting: I am syncing my entire books library on my MacBook with my iPad. On my Mac, there are 122 books (both .epub and.pdf). I also use iTunes U on my MacBook, and some of the courses I ...
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