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If you go Settings >- iCloud -> Storage >- Manage Storage >- iBooks you will see exactly what is in iCloud for iBooks. In digging around I noticed an interesting feature of iOS that is not available in OSX. Apparently there may have been some glitches in iCloud services lately. Yes I have 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3.1 on my iPhone and iPad. I like this new feature anyway, just need a better setting control on the iBooks apps on OS X and iOS and I will fill some comments on beta tool for that. I will give some tries shutting it off on OS X to make sure new books are not moved into iCloud storage. Now that I read your article mentioning Cloud Drive, it is clear where to look for. What bothered me was that like Photos in iCloud you cannot select what goes and does not to iCloud and that I could not find a way to turn it off.
#READ AN IBOOK ON MAC PDF#
I assume the synch is working fine as new PDF or epub files added to the iPad join the OS X list, move between collections, etc… However this triggered iBooks on OS X (also my main master collection) to vanish the third-party books I had. They soon vanished from iBooks in iPad as downloaded cloud items, which was expected. After few days looking for information I gave it a try and deleted all books on iCloud storage from iPad settings options.
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Even thought I am not running low on 5GB free tier, I wanted to know more about this just in case I needed to free up space. Running 10.11.4 beta and 9.3 beta I have enabled it to find about 500MB of personal books eating up iCloud storage. Glad I found your post about this, it’s much information I needed to learn more. But for those who watch their storage closely, it’s ironic that every PDF that I happened to simply *view* on one Mac was copied to another Mac - yet, those same PDFs (as well as the others I didn’t view) are still *unavailable* in iBooks on the 2nd Mac.
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No big deal, as I have a large data plan. And as it turns out, a few of the PDFs that were copied to my iCloud Drive are in excess of 100 MB. The thing is, I have some really LARGE PDFs. But I’ve just observed that each of those PDFs was COPIED - without my knowledge - to my iCloud Drive. As you probably know, when you double-click a PDF in iBooks for Mac, it actually opens in Preview, not in iBooks.
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But the folder for *Preview.app* contains every PDF that I opened on the MacBook Pro while I was organizing iBooks. Unsurprisingly, there’s no explicit folder for iBooks. So, iBooks in El Capitan is only “sorta” syncing.Ĭlearly this will be addressed in an OS X update, but it’s disappointing that they’d roll it out to our iOS devices without also including our Macs.īut get this: I took a peek at my iCloud Drive (folder) on the Mac Pro. Interestingly, the new collections that I created *are* all there in the sidebar - but none of the books that they contain. But NONE of my books or PDFs that weren’t purchased from Apple is available. Sure enough, the iPhone and iPad sync within a minute or so of making changes on the Mac, and vice versa.īut today I opened iBooks on my Mac Pro (El Capitan same iCloud account), because I need to read something for work. I also took the opportunity to do some reorganizing of my “collections,” which included creating some new collections, removing obsolete ones, and moving a number of books into different collections. As soon as I learned about iCloud sync, I enabled it on both my iPhone and iPad.
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Google requires that you upload ebooks before you download them to the Play Books app ( here’s more info), and Amazon requires that you either email or upload your docs before downloading them to the app (but only if you want to use the Kindle cloud sync option).Ĭhiming in… I keep my “master” library of books on my MacBook Pro. Both Amazon and Google offer similar sync features as iCloud for iBooks, only they don’t quite work the same.
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If you cannot update to iOS 9.3, you might want to consider using either Google Play Books or the Kindle app. Once those ebooks are backed up, they can be downloaded from other iDevices that are tied to the same Apple account, a nd that is a problem if you want to keep your ebooks secure. If, for example, you are reading a PDF with sensitive or proprietary info, you don’t want it getting into your iCloud account (Apple’s servers have been hacked before).īut if you have security concerns, I’m sure you thought of that issue. In fact, I don’t know of a way to disable the sync feature, other than disabling iCloud. It will back up your entire iBooks ebook library to iCloud, including the ebooks you have downloaded from free ebook sites (as well as the annotations for those ebooks).
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That first step is a killer, especially if your older iDevice can’t run iOS 9 (luckily you do have other options), but once you are past that point you should have no trouble at all.īased on what I have seen, and on similar reports over at MobileRead, iCloud for iBooks is automatic.