iPhone and iPad – How to Share Books and Bookmarks Between Devices

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I have lots of books bought or downloaded not from Apple's store.

I would like to simply put a book on my mac, then see it on my iPhone and iPad.
I also like to read it on my iPad, set a bookmark, and keep reading from same page on my iPhone.

Why Apple makes it so hard to work natively with MY books ?
Its my device, so why is it matter how did I get my book ?

Thanks.

Best Answer

Using iBooks with iCloud makes this very easy.

  • Make sure you have an active iCloud account and are signed in on both macOS and iOS.
  • Open iBooks (if asked enable iCloud for iBooks).
  • Select File > Add to library, and add any external .epub or .pdf files
  • iBooks will automatically sync them to other iOS/macOS devices, including notes and bookmarks.

If you have a seperate iCloud and AppStore Apple ID. Go into iBooks preferences and check "Sync: Sync bookmarks, highlights and collections across devices", you might get a warning to change Apple ID's. Change it to your AppStore Apple ID. Even though your using iCloud to sync, it still needs the other ID.

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