PDFs do not sync

Why don't PDFs saved in iBook on my iPad sync to my iPhone or vice-versa? All devices are updated and I've turned everything I can find to turn on to enable sharing, etc. I regularly backup both devices as well. I routinely use myiPhone to view electrical drawings and schematics on the job and automatic sharing would be really convenient.

pdf are not synced automaticly via icloud, it would have to be iWork files (Pages, Numbers or Keynotes)
you should be able to send it by email from one device to another...

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Is Ibooks supposed to sync between devices?

Is this really the case? I'm getting more and more disenchanted with my iPad. It's implied in all the advertising that iCloud will 'magically' make sure everything stays synched between your devices. But is it actually true that the pdfs I have saved in a collection on my iPad (which were downloaded from any old website), will not sync to my mac at all? How is this helpful in any way? I've got 'sync all books' selected in itunes on the mac, and 'sync collections' selected in the settings on all my devices.
Edited to add: they don't sync over iCloud or when i have the iPad connected by cable, if that was not clear.
Quite frankly, this is rubbish and in my opinion, blatant false advertising. Is there some annoyingly cumbersome workaround I can use??

Some pdf will not sync into ibooks on ipad2

I scanned 126 magazine articles - between 1-3 pages per pdf - very small files.
I have put them into ibooks on the PC and all set to sync into ipad2.
When I select "sync all" under ibooks - it only syncs about 53 of them.
There are not in any catagories in ibooks, looked everywhere and did reset but still the rest of the pdfs didn't sync or missing.
I have plenty of memory on the ipad - 8GB available.
I just don't know why? Please let me know as I keep these articles as reference.
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I am sort of having this problem as well. I just purchased some songs and I tried to add them to a playlist using my laptop. When I am on iTunes, the playlist on my iPod touch indicates that they are in fact on the iPod touch. However, when I go to the iPod touch after the sync, they are not part of the playlist. Very frustrating.

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Connect your iPad to your computer and launch iTunes. Select your device in the left side of iTunes. Click on books at the top right side of the iTunes window. Make sure that Sync Books has a check mark in it. Select all of the PDFs, books, etc. that you want to sync to your iPad by putting a check mark in those boxes. Click apply in the lower right corner of the iTunes window, then click sync. This will put the PDF files on the iPad.
You can download iBooks in the app store for free and you can read PDF files with it.

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I accessed a PDF on the web from Safari on my iPhone 4s, then opened it in iBooks. Then I connected the iPhone to my iMac and synced with iTunes. I was expecting the new PDF to sync back to my iTunes, but that did not happen.
Am I to assume that PDF files loaded into iBooks on my iPhone or iPad will NOT sync back to iTunes?
-Thanks

It was VERY difficut, but I finally did it!
First I was annoyed because I couldn't get the PDFs to show in my iTunes Library. As near as I can tell, performing a backup of my iPad did that. In the past 'Transfer Purchases' did the job.
What nearly drove me bonkers was getting the content of my iBooks Library to sync to the device. There was just no way to do it. Not my PDFs and not even the purchased books! I tried to get the Library on the left and my iPad on the right so I could drag and drop. NOPE.
I played around a while and finally got both to show on the screen so I could drag and drop. STUPID
What I think worked for me: I started in Music Library and clicked on the +Add to icon on the top right. This pulled up my iPad for drag and drop. Then I switched the button on the top left from 'music' to 'books'. Finally I could remove or add my content to iBooks.
It worked perfectly before, why did they change it!
The music App makes me drag and drop, which I never had to do before. All I had to do was check or uncheck songs in a playlist and sync the playlist.
Apps works fine, no complaints.
Podcasts, another fine mess...
I noticed Video was fixed when I went back in.
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My IBooks will not sync PDF content with my IPhone. It syncs the collection title but no content. Both devices are set to sync collections? Any ideas how to fix this?

The 'sync collections' setting does not copy books or PDFs between devices - all it does is if you have the book on both devices and you move it into a collection on one of them, then it will be put into the same collection on the other device.
You will need to sync each PDF that you want on your phone. If you don't currently have them on your computer then connect your iPad to your computer's iTunes and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy them over (that should copy PDFs and/or epubs that are in the iBooks app, not just actual ibooks), and if using a Mac with Mavericks on it do File > Move Books From iTunes in the iBooks app on it, and you can then sync them to your iPhone.

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Thank you

Then your family members will probably have bought their ipads with a data plan from some phone company like AT&T in the States. Maybe they even got it "sponsored", because they bought a data plan with it.
If you bought your "iPad only" from a hardware seller, you will have to get a data plan from some phone company. Seems like you only bougth the hardware! You can still use your ipad, however, and if you have an iPhone, you do not even need a sim card in your iPad, because it can use your iPhone's data plan.
That is what I did. I save the extra money for the 3G version, because with an iPhone 4 there is no need for an own sim Card in an iPad.
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Why do PDFs in iBooks not sync across my devices

PDFs that I create on my MacBook Air and save in iBooks do not sync to my other iOS devices.

For me. I have had PDFs on my idevices for a while. I use to have to open in iBooks on a iDevice. Then sync that device to iTunes on my home computer then sync all my other idevices. That worked till about 6 months ago. That's why I was excited when I heard iBooks was coming to Mac. I was hoping it would fix. So I anxiously awaited and no beuno.

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I have PDFs on my iPhone in iBooks. I have syncing turned on for my iPad2 and iPhone for iBooks. I have wirelss syncing checked for both also. But, PDFs from iPhone will not sync wirelessly to iPad iBook library. Any help?!?

Not sure whether your question being struck through means that you've found the answer or not, but if not then the Settings > iBooks options don't sync items between devices, it only keeps what you already have on both devices in-line with each other - you will need to sync the PDFs to the other device yourself (even though they aren't iTunes purchases you should be able to copy them to your computer's iTunes via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases)

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Hi,
I have Macbook Air with Recently updated mavericks OSX. I have lots of PDF files on my mac (usually e-tickets of airlines) which i drag and drop to ibooks for mac. Now they are not syncing to ibooks for my iphone 5, iOS 7.0.3. The ibooks icloud syncing is ON for both the devices but i am not able to sync such PDFs to and from from and to mac and iphone. Please help.
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Vikas

I tried that. It does not work for me. I get a few books to appear from iTunes into iBooks. Getting them into iBooks on the Mac has never been the problem There are lots of way to do that. The problem is, they STILL not not sync with my iPad. And now they are gone from iTunes so i am not sure what is going to happen the next time I try to sync the iPad with iTunes. Luckily I have a Time Capsule backup so I can restore if I have to.
I guess the bottom line, based on several other threads, is the only solution is to kill iBooks, move it to an obscure corner of your Launch Pad (since you can't totally delete it) and go buy an third party app that will work. Apple has release several updates to Mavericks, and so far there is nothing on the horizon about restoring any of the sync ability that Mavericks took away - iTunes sync wirelessly with the iPad and iPhone, or, like here, iBooks syncing across Apple platforms.

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Collections do not sync across devices - bookmarks do ???

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