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With iOS 8 and later, iBook is a built-in app that lets you view, sync, save, and Add PDF to iBook on iPhone and iPad. When we use Safari to surf the web, we can look at many web pages that have interesting or useful PDFs. But what if we don’t have time to read online and just want to read PDFs at random offline? In this tutorial, we’ll show you four ways to add PDFs from Safari, Mail, iTunes, or other apps to iBook on your iPhone or iPad to keep them safe and easy to find.
Want to move PDF files from your Windows PC to your iPhone or iPad without erasing the files that are already there? Sometimes people may want to transfer PDF files to iPhone iBooks for later reading or sharing with friends. This article will show you easy methods to add text files to iBooks on your iPhone
Add PDFs to the Books app from Windows
- The easiest way is to just email the PDF file to your iPhone or iPad. Send the file as an attachment to an email account that you can access on the iPad or iPhone.
- Once you’ve emailed the PDF to an email account you can access on your iOS device, tap the PDF attachment.
- The document will open in a ‘preview’ screen. Tap the Send to button in the upper-right corner of the preview window (see screenshot below).
- Tap Books from the list of available apps.
- The PDF will now load into the Books app. If you tap the back button …
- see that the PDF is also in your Library.
- Repeat as needed with additional documents.
Add PDFs to the Books app from macOS
- Once you AirDrop the PDF to your iOS device, tap the Accept button.
- When you’re asked which app you would like to open the document with, select Books
- The PDF will now load into your Books app. If you tap the back button …
- the PDF is also in your Library now.
- Repeat as needed
FAQs
Click Books in the button bar. Select the “Sync books onto [device name]” checkbox to turn on syncing of your books. With the checkbox selected, syncing is set to transfer all your books to your device. To sync a selection of of books, select the “Selected books” checkbox.
You can download iBooks for iPad and iPhone directly from the App Store. First, open iTunes and navigate to the “Books” section. Now all you need to do is to drag and drop the ePUB files from your PC to the open iTunes window. The books are added to your library.
On both iPhone and iPad, go to the Settings app > Tap [your name] > Choose iCloud > Toggle on iCloud Drive > Switch on the toggle of iBooks. To sync iBooks between iPhone and iPad, you also need to enable the sync settings by going to Settings > iBooks > Toggle on Sync Collections.
In the On My [Device] folder, you can find files stored locally on the device that you’re using. In the iCloud Drive folder, you can find files and folders that sync to iCloud Drive, including Pages, Numbers, Keynote documents, and more.
But where do you find the PDF files that you’ve saved on your iPad? They’re stored in the iBooks app, but you might have to change collections to see them. Collections are essentially folders for the books and files stored in iBooks. By default, all PDF files are stored in the PDF collection.