AstonJ
How to sync Apple Books from Mac to iPad
Just writing this up in case it helps anyone else because it wasn’t automatic.
- First, connect you iPad to your Mac via a cable.
- On your Mac open a finder window and on the left hand side click on your iPad under Locations
- Click on the Books tab and then
Sync books onto..andAll books - Click on General tab and under Options click
Show this iPad when on Wi-FiandAutomatically sync when this iPad is connected
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Hallski
Did it not work syncing through iCloud or did you have reasons to avoid syncing through Apples services?
I have mainly ebooks but a few random PDFs and they sync through iCloud. However you need to enable it in the icloud settings rather than in the ibook app settings.
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Hallski
Ah, on the Mac it seems to be in Books->Settings->General: “Sync collections, bookmarks and highlights across devices”.
On iOS there seem to be a setting in both iCloud and inside the books settings, to be honest I don’t know how they interact. I have both enabled.
With regards to iCloud Drive and Desktop & Documents you can disable those:
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