Can't consolidate iTunes as iBooks are copied twice???

Hi there
After the disaster of organising my iBooks, I finally thought I had everything working.
I have a Macbooks Air and a MASSIVE iTunes Library folder, containing movies, music and (up until recently) Books. Because of this, my iTunes Library is on an external drive. Occasionally, I download things when that drive isn't attached, and then I just use the 'consolidate libaray' command to move everything onto the correct drive when it's connected again.
When the Mavericks iTunes changes happened, I had to move all my books to my local Macbook Air hard drive, because iBooks can't have an external library any more. That's 16Gb of books, and I now have 15Gb left on my Macbook Air hard drive.
Now, when I try to use 'consolidate library' in iTunes, it copies all my books (in Library/Containers/com/apple/BkAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books) AGAIN, duplicating them in Library/Containers/com/apple/BkAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Downloads.
Obviously, this then completely fills my hard drive, because apparently iBooks wants two copies of every book?
Any idea how to fix this other than buying a new computer?

Same problem here. Ever find a solution or a cause?

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