Ibooks won't fully sync from iOS to Mac & iOS

I'm rebuilding my data assets from backups after a corruption calamity. Almost all is well. I've got some PDF's in iBooks on an iPad and think the best way to install on an iPhone and Mac is to sync.
I created a new sidebar category 'Documents' and successfully moved the PDFs from 'PDF' to 'Documents on the iPad.
'Documents' appeared on the Mac and iPhone in the Categories sidebar of those devices' iBooks... However, the PDF's are not loading into 'Documents' on either device.
I'm not sure what to do in order to have those PDF's load. Obviously all 3 devices are linked to my iCloud account as the word 'Documents' popped up from the iPad's iBooks app to the iPhone and Mac...
Any thoughts folks?

Howdy Ed,
If sounds like you have some PDFs on your iPad that are not syncing to your iPhone or Mac.
Do you have all devices set to sync collections?
Sync iBooks between devices - Apple Support
Keep your books up to date across your devices
If you start reading a book on one device, you can pick up right where you left off on another device. Collections, highlights, notes, and bookmarks sync across all of your devices. Select these settings to sync:
On your Mac, open the iBooks app and select iBooks > Preferences > General. Then, select "Sync bookmarks, highlights and collections across devices." This setting is on by default.
On your iOS device, go to Settings > iBooks. Then, select Sync Collections and Sync Bookmarks and Notes. (In iBooks 3.2 or earlier, select Sync Collections and Sync Bookmarks.)
If you don't see all of your information on all of your devices, check the settings:
Make sure that you turned on the above sync settings on all of your devices.
Make sure that you're using the same Apple ID in the iBooks Store on all of your devices.
And more detail:
iBooks: Viewing, syncing, saving, and printing PDFs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support
Using Sync Collections with PDFs in iBooks
If you turned on Sync Collections, iBooks will keep your PDFs (and non–iBooks Store books) in the same collections across all your iOS devices and Mac (if you're using OS X Mavericks). For example, if you have the same PDF on all your devices, when you move that PDF to your Sci-Fi collection in iBooks on your iPhone, that PDF will appear in your Sci-Fi collection the next time you open iBooks on your iPad.
Take care,
Nubz

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