Constant sync failure on one of three devices

I have a MBP, an iPad 2, and iPad Mini (2011), and an iPhone 5s.
I have a number of books obtained through iTunes, but most of the items I have in iBooks are EPUBs or PDFs I've created myself (e.g. exported from a Pages document). So mostly they're created on the mac and added to iBooks there.
Ideally I want to keep the whole iBooks library in sync across the four devices. But the most critical one is the iPad mini, which happens to be most recent acquisition.
Now the problem - Sync (wifi or USB) mostly works between the mac and both the iPad 2 and the iPhone 5s. But I have no end of trouble getting it to work with the mini. I add an epub or two to iBooks on the mac, and then sync. I can sync over and over and the new files never get to the mini. (I can get them there by another route using 'Dropbox > Open In....', but I'm really hoping to get it happening with fewer steps than that - which I can easily on the other devices).
I can readily identify what's different about syncing with the mini, but I can't for the life of me see how to change it. With both the iPad 2 and the iPhone - the books tab in iTunes is set to sync "All books". That's how I want it, and it stays that way. But with the iPad mini, it repeatedly defaults back to "Selected books". It doesn't seem to matter how many times I run the sync, pressing 'apply', 'sync' or both - it repeatedly 'jumps' back from "all books" to "selected books". It does it at the end of a sync or in the middle! But it always does it, and if I come back and try again later it's always on "selected books" when I find it, even if I had changed it back to "all books" last time. As I said this only happens witn the mini, not either of the other two.
I'm at a loss. Ideas, anyone?

Thanks picas.
OK. Tried the first reset. That seemed to fix it on one sync. But then on the next sync, the problem was back.
Before I try the 'reset all settings' - it's a while since I've done this sort of stuff ... Would I stand to lose any data with that one? Should I do a backup to my mac first? Just wanting to be sure first ... Thanks.

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