You may have a library of iBooks and ebooks on your computer, or on your iPhone or iPad. You can use iTunes and the iBooks app (on a Mac) to manage these books and transfer them to your iOS device, but you can also use iMazing to move them back and forth between your portable device and your computer. iMazing can transfer ebooks from your iPhone or iPad to your computer; from your computer to your iOS device; from one iOS device to another; and you can use iMazing to delete ebooks as well. Here's how.
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Download and install iMazing on your Mac or PC computer
Transfer iBooks and ePub books from your iPhone or iPad to your computer
You can transfer iBooks and ePub ebooks from your iPhone or iPad to your computer, without using iTunes. iMazing can export the books with just a few clicks.
- Download and install iMazing. Launch the app, and connect your device to your Mac or PC.
- Select your device in the iMazing's sidebar, then select iBooks.
- Select one or more ebooks to export.
- Click the “Export” button. iMazing presents a Save dialog, asking you to select a folder for the books to be saved. Navigate to that folder, then click Choose.
- iMazing exports the ebooks.
?Tips:You can also drag ebooks from iMazing's 'iBooks' section of your iDevice to to the Finder or the Windows Explorer of your computer.
⚠Audio Books (.m4b files) in iMazing are managed via the Music section, not Books.
Transfer iBooks and ePub books from your computer to your iPhone or iPad
You can add iBooks and ePub ebooks from your computer to your iPhone or iPad, without using iTunes. iMazing can import the books to your device with just a few clicks.
- Download and install iMazing. Launch the app, and connect your device to your Mac or PC.
- Select your device in the iMazing's sidebar, then select iBooks.
- Click the 'Import' button.
- Select an ebook or a folder of ebooks to import.
- iMazing transfers the ebooks.
?Tips:Extended instructions on 'How to transfer iBooks and ePub books from your computer to your iPhone or iPad' can be found here.
Here's how to transfer iBooks and ePub books from one iOS device to another
You can also use iMazing to transfer iBooks or ePub ebooks from one iOS device to another. To do this, you need to first export the books from one iPhone or iPad, then import them to another. iMazing can do this easily.
- Download and install iMazing. Launch the app, and connect your device to your Mac or PC. This is the device from which you want to transfer the iBooks or ePub ebooks.
- Select your device in iMazing's sidebar, then select iBooks.
- Click the “Export” button. iMazing presents a Save dialog, asking you to select a folder for the books to be saved. Navigate to that folder, then click Choose.
- Select an ebook or a folder of ebooks to import.
- iMazing exports the ebooks.
- Connect the device to which you now want to transfer the ebooks you’ve exported.
- Select that device in the iMazing's sidebar, then select iBooks.
- Click the 'Import' button.
- Select the ebooks or folder of ebooks that you exported from the first device earlier in this tutorial.
- iMazing transfers the ebooks.
How to delete iBooks and ePub books from your iPhone or iPad
You can use iMazing to delete iBooks or ePub ebooks from your iOS device.
- Download and install iMazing. Launch the app, and connect your device to your Mac or PC.
- Select your device in the iMazing's sidebar, then select iBooks.
- Select one or more ebooks.
- Click the “Delete” button.
- iMazing deletes the ebooks.
Going further
Remember that iBooks purchased from Apple have DRM; you can only read them on devices where you are signed in on the same iTunes Store account as that which you used to purchase them. You can read ePub ebooks without DRM on any iOS device.
'How to sync iBooks from Mac to iPad? I have several wonderful books on my iMac iBooks and now I need to transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad? I want to read these books on iPad during the train journey.' – From Apple Support Communities.
iBooks is the reading app aross Apple’s iOS products and computers that enables iOS users and Mac owners to freely read books. People could freely sync iBooks among iOS devices and Mac computers for unlimited reading experience. If you want to know how to sync iBooks from Mac to iPad, this guide would be where you should stand. It provides 3 different solutions to help you transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad.
Part 1: How to Sync iBooks from Mac to iPad via iBooks Settings
As known to all, Apple has built an auto-sync system to help its users freely sync data and files among iOS devices and Mac computers automatically under WiFi connection. This also works for iBooks. With some basic iBooks settings on iPad and Mac computer, you could easily solve the problem of how to sync iBooks from Mac to iPad. The below steps show you how to carry out these settings:
- On your iPad, open 'Settings > iBooks' tab.
- Then turn on 'Sync Bookmarks and Notes' and 'Sync Collections' options to enable iBooks sync on iPad.
- On Mac computer, open the iBooks app.
- Go to Preferences (from the menu) and click on General tab.
- Then, check Sync bookmarks, highlights and collections across devices.
- If you want to sync books from iTunes, open iBooks on Mac, open File menu, and then click Move books from iTunes… option.
Part 2: How to Sync iBooks from Mac to iPad with iTunes
iTunes could also be helpful on how to sync iBooks from Mac to iPad. iTunes could not only sync books from iBooks to iPad, but also books in other formats like PDF or ePub in iTunes to iPad. The below steps would show you how to sync iBooks from Mac to iPad with iTunes:
- Connect iPad to Mac computer and launch iTunes on your Mac computer. Make sure iBooks is installed on your iPad.
- Click the iPad icon on iTunes.
- Navigate to 'Summary > Books' tab.
- Check 'Sync Books' option and then choose whether to sync all books or only selected books.
- After you have selected what to sync, click the 'Apply' button at the bottom right corner to start syncing iBooks from Mac to iPad within iTunes.
After syncing, the books synced from Mac iTunes would be displayed on iBooks on your iPad. You could then freely read the books within iBooks on iPad on the go.
Part 3: How to Transfer Books from Mac to iPad with iTransfer Mac
Still, you have a 3rd option to help you solve how to transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad. That’s to make use of Mac iPad data transfer software. Leawo iTransfer for Mac is one of the top-rated Mac iOS data transfer software tools to help you transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad in clicks. As a professional iOS data and file transfer app, Leawo iTransfer for Mac supports up to 14 types of data and files between iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod), iTunes and Mac computer. With this Mac iPad data transfer software, you could easily transfer movies from Macbook to iPad, as well as iMac to iPad.
Leawo iTransfer for Mac
☉ Transfer files among iOS devices, iTunes and PCs with ease.
☉ Transfer up to 14 kinds of data and files without iTunes.
☉ Support the latest iOS devices like iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, etc.
☉ Play back, view, and delete data and files on iOS devices.
☉ Transfer up to 14 kinds of data and files without iTunes.
☉ Support the latest iOS devices like iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, etc.
☉ Play back, view, and delete data and files on iOS devices.
Download and install this iTransfer on your Mac computer. Follow the below guide to learn how to transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad with Leawo iTransfer for Mac (here we take iPhone 6 to replace iPad).
Step 1. Connect iPad to Mac computer
Open the software and connect your iPad to your Mac computer via USB cable. Your iPad will be detected soon and displayed on the left sidebar.
Step 2. Open Books tab
Successively open 'iPad > LIBRARY > Books' tab. You could then view all movies on your iPad.
Step 3. Add books to iPad
On the right panel, you could click the 'Add' button to choose either 'Add File' or 'Add Folder' button to browse and add books from Mac to iPad. In this way, if you want to transfer iBooks from Mac to iPad, you need to know the folder that stores books downloaded in iBooks and then add the folder into iPad within iTransfer.
Actually, with iTransfer for Mac, you could also transfer books from iTunes to iPad on Mac. Go to 'iTunes > LIBRARY > Books' tab, choose books to transfer, right click to choose 'Transfer to', and then select iPad as target.
Leawo iTransfer for Mac supports up to 14 types of data and files for you to manage from computer, including: photos, videos, music, contact, note, books, etc. You could transfer and manage all these data and files between iOS devices and computer. If you’re using a Windows computer, you could make use of Leawo iTransfer for iOS data transferring and managing on Windows that runs after Windows Vista.