How to make iBooks as the default PDF reader

Hi,
I have both iBooks and Adobe Acrobat reader installed on my Mac running Mavericks. I'd like to use the sync feature, since I have a lot of PDF and Epub files on my iPad. I read PDF files on my iPad using iBooks without any problem. I added my PDF files to iBooks on my Mac but when I want to read them, the file opens up in Adobe Acrobat reader. I want to read it in iBooks so my books and bookmarks are synced with my iPad.
How can I make PDF files in my iBooks liberary to open only in iBooks and not Acrobat Reader? Any suggestions ?
Thank you.

Sadly it doesn't appear that iBooks in Mavericks actually can read PDF as on my machine it opens with Preview.
I have no idea if this is by design or what but at least with Preview the annotations actually do get synchronised but I'm not sure about Acrobat Reader.

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