How do I add books to itunes in order to sync to iPad?

I used to sync my books to my iPad via iTunes . This option is no longer available and there is no option to allow me to add iBooks to the menu of iTunes. At the moment I am adding books via dropbox which is tedious as they have to be added individually.

Please could someone explain how I could reinstall this option or point me in the direction of a tutorial/instructions?

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iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 10.3.2

Posted on Jun 1, 2017 10:22 PM

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The article that King_Penguin provided for you explains what you need to do to see books that are not purchased via the iBooks store on your iPad:

Download items from iCloud Drive

You can download ePub, iBooks Author books, and PDF files from iCloud Drive to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.

iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

  1. Open iBooks.
  2. Scroll to find the item that you want to download.
  3. Tap the Download icon in the upper-right corner of the item that you want to download. The item downloads to your library.

If you turn off iBooks in Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive, iBooks items that you save to iCloud Drive will no longer be available on that device.

The last sentence is particularly important. You need to make sure that iBooks is turned on under iCloud Drive when you click on your name at the top of the Settings App, then on iCloud. Scroll down to the iCloud Drive section and make sure that iBooks is turned on.

Read the link that King_Penguin provided. Books that are not purchased from the iBooks store are not sync'd via iTunes. They must be sync'd using iCloud Drive.