How to save my ibooks library on my external drive?

Hello,
I would my ibooks to save my library on my external drive because I am running out of space. Do you know how this can be done?
Any help will be very much appreciated.

Yes this is very easy.  Just go into Finder and Press Shift+Command+G and Paste this in there
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books
Those folders are actually the books, they just dont look like them. 
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23662882#23662882

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