#Opening kindle books in ibooks in mac for mac#
#Opening kindle books in ibooks in mac mac#

The EPUB itself is not synced by iBooks - only the highlights/notes are synced. it behaves like iTunes Match which uses your store account for ratings/metadata sync. It doesn't behave like Pages/Keynote/Numbers etc which use iCloud for documents sync. Think of iBooks as an extension of iTunes. IBooks doesn't sync data using your iCloud account, it does so using the 'store-linked' apple ID. And you've checked the sync bookmarks/notes setting in iBooks.

#Opening kindle books in ibooks in mac mac#

(3) Last read position, highlights & notes that you make on the EPUB on any Mac or iOS device will be synced across all other devices - provided you've signed into iBooks store using the same Apple ID on all these devices. This creates a copy of the EPUB in each of the iBooks apps. (2) Open the EPUB on each Mac and iOS device, from the Dropbox folder. (You can also host these on a private web-page on your LAN. (1) Keep your 3rd party EPUBs centrally in Dropbox, so it can be 'accessed' from any Mac or iOS device.

#Opening kindle books in ibooks in mac for mac#

It is possible to sync notes/annotations of 3rd party EPUBs using iBooks for Mac & iBooks for iOS, but the EPUB files themselves do not sync. I wasn't so lucky.īTW, any PDFs that are music booklets (or in my case, sheet music) can stay with the album in iTunes. If you were lucky you copied your stuff out of iTunes before using iBooks. Most of the ePub metadata will be in the ePub file, but not so for PDFs. When you start iBooks for the first time, your iTunes books will be transferred to a folder buried out-of-sight. So for the moment, you have two separate methods of syncing books: iBooks and iTunes for purchased, and Calibre (or whatever) for non-purchased. Calibre has multiple methods for copying to devices, and you will definitely need to do a little digging in the documentation. For the moment that capability is not available. It's not seamless with the syncing, especially if you used to do it over WiFi.

I spent a day putting all my non-purchased books into Calibre and it works fine.

It's possible that the new iBooks app is an attempt to distance Apple from non purchased books. Whether or not this continues to be the case is unknown. When you sync your device, the iTunes 'Books' selections will come from the new iBooks application.Īll of your not-purchaed ePubs and PDFs that you used to store and sync in iTunes, well now you have to use something else, like Calibre. Also the iBooks application on the desktop isn't intended to be the means to sync to your iDevices. It wasn't announced, but it seems to be the case.

The iBooks application seems positioned to deal only with purchased (DRM) books. Before I opened it, Mavericks seemed great. In short, the iBooks application and its behavior were kind of a big surprise to everybody.