How to share books using home sharing

My husband and I each have our own Apple ID and itunes account. We have home sharing set up using his Apple ID. He has an ipad (1st Gen). I have an iphone 4 and i have purchased some books using my itunes/apple ID, but reading a book on the iphone is difficult to say the least. My husband wants me to use his ipad to read my books. But I don't know how to get my books from my itunes account to his ipad. It looks like I can sign in on his ibooks app on the ipad, but then he loses rights for 90 days. Its not ideal...I would rather not lock him out of his ibooks. Is there an easy way to do this using home sharing? (we each have our own Mac's as well, if that helps). I have found a way to email the books to him, but I get an error message when I try to open them with ibooks -- something about software missing, they are DRM books so that's probably why.

On your husbands computer or account you need to authorise it with your details. This will allow him to play and sync that content with his devices but not change the Apple ID he uses to purchase items
On his itunes From the Top Menu (Ctrl B to show it on Windows)
Select Store > Authorise this computer.. enter your apple id and password
You should be good to go.
If you want to share content your husband purchased then you would have to authorise your machine with his details

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