No longer ANY way to update books in iOS 8

iBooks, if possible, has gotten worse than ever. On my iPhone, iBooks shows a red badge with the number 3 in the "Purchased" tab. That means three books have available updates. But there is no way on the iPhone to figure out what those books are. On the iPad only, in iOS 7, under purchased, it had a tab marked "updates" which indicated which books had available updates. Now that iBooks is identical on the phone and on the iPad, that tab has been removed, so there is no way on either device to see what needs updating.
On the iBooks app on my iMac, since iOS 7, when I "check for available downloads" it rarely shows any, and it has no relationship to how many are shown on the iPad or the iPhone. The iPad will show me an update but my Mac iBooks app will say there are none. So there is no way that I can see to identify the updatable books.
Also, updating a title on the iDevice and syncing it to the Mac doesn't transfer the updated copy. The only workaround was to look at the books the iPad showed as updatable, delete them on the Mac, download the updated version from the iBookstore on the Mac, and sync back to the iPad. Then, usually (but not always) the red badge number would go away.
If this sounds like a pain in the neck, I absolutely agree! I spoke to an Apple Tier 2 support specialist after iOS 7 came out and he said this was a known bug on Apple's side. I had hoped it would have been fixed by now, but not only hasn't it - it is now worse.
Has anyone figured out how to identify updatable iBooks? If so, please share your secret. I am beyond frustrated.

Well that totally *****. I'm going to need to find a new video chat application that will let me log those calls for immigration purposes!
Just lost months of evidence...

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