(2) Open the EPUB on each Mac and iOS device, from the Dropbox folder. (You can also host these on a private web-page on your LAN. (1) Keep your 3rd party EPUBs centrally in Dropbox, so it can be "accessed" from any Mac or iOS device.
#PDF ADDED TO IBOOK ON MAC NOT SHOWING ON IPAD FOR MAC#
It is possible to sync notes/annotations of 3rd party EPUBs using iBooks for Mac & iBooks for iOS, but the EPUB files themselves do not sync. I wasn't so lucky.īTW, any PDFs that are music booklets (or in my case, sheet music) can stay with the album in iTunes. If you were lucky you copied your stuff out of iTunes before using iBooks. Most of the ePub metadata will be in the ePub file, but not so for PDFs. When you start iBooks for the first time, your iTunes books will be transferred to a folder buried out-of-sight. So for the moment, you have two separate methods of syncing books: iBooks and iTunes for purchased, and Calibre (or whatever) for non-purchased. Calibre has multiple methods for copying to devices, and you will definitely need to do a little digging in the documentation. For the moment that capability is not available.
It's not seamless with the syncing, especially if you used to do it over WiFi. I spent a day putting all my non-purchased books into Calibre and it works fine. It's possible that the new iBooks app is an attempt to distance Apple from non purchased books. Whether or not this continues to be the case is unknown. When you sync your device, the iTunes "Books" selections will come from the new iBooks application.Īll of your not-purchaed ePubs and PDFs that you used to store and sync in iTunes, well now you have to use something else, like Calibre. Also the iBooks application on the desktop isn't intended to be the means to sync to your iDevices. It wasn't announced, but it seems to be the case. The iBooks application seems positioned to deal only with purchased (DRM) books. Before I opened it, Mavericks seemed great. In short, the iBooks application and its behavior were kind of a big surprise to everybody.
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