IBooks will not sync to iPad

Hi
My PDF
* Select Books in iTunes to sync (or even select all)
* Open iBooks on iPad Air
* Start Sync
* Books appear and then vanish in the blink of an eye on the iPad.
Have tried a full restore on the iPad to no avail. This has happened for first time a few days ago.
Any suggestions as to how to remedy this extremely frustrating issue?
Thanks
SMW

I also tried manually underlining a few things on the new iPad and when highlighting a paragraph, it would skip a few lines and the line would go through a few as well. Looks like a major iBooks glitch needs to be addressed here.

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