How to add PDF files to read in iBooks on your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone

by Ross McKillop on June 22, 2010

iPad iPhone iPod

This brief tutorial will show you how to add PDF files to iBooks so that you can read them on your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone.

Note: there’s also a nifty way to use Dropbox to add PDF files to iBooks – but if it’s a large PDF file, you’ll probably want to stick with the method outlined below.

  1. First up – we’re going to make the assumption that you have iBooks installed on your iPad/iPod Touch/iPhone. If you don’t, click here to install it.
  2. Now open up iTunes. Select File -> Add to Library….

  3. Navigate to the PDF file(s) you want to add to iBooks. You can select more than one file, or select an entire folder. Once you’ve made your selection, click Choose.

  4. Now select Books from your iTunes Library. You should see the PDF file(s) that you just added, now listed.


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  5. Right-click (ctrl+click for single-button Mac folks) on the newly added PDF and select Get Info.

  6. First select the Options tab. Make sure that the Media Kind: is set to Book.


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  7. Now select the Info tab. From here you can add any missing info – the authors name, the published year etc. When you’re done, click OK.


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  8. Almost done. Now select your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone from the Devices list in iTunes. Select the Books tab from the list at the top. Make sure that Sync Books is checked. If you want to sync all of the books you’ve added to iTunes, select All Books and then click the Sync button. If you want to only sync specific books, choose Selected Books and then place a check next to each of the books you want to sync (and then click the Sync button).


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  9. Now open iBooks. You’ll see a PDFs button at the top. Tap it.


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  10. You’ll be presented with a list of all the PDFs you added via iTunes. Tap one of them..

  11. and it will open in iBooks. At any point in time you can tap the screen and a menu will appear at the top. From here you can change the displays brightness, search the PDF, bookmark a page etc.


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  12. That’s it – you’re done!
  • Meggeler

    I can’t get the PDF files to show up in the ipad Books tab for sync. iTunes seems to know they are books, marked etc, but for some reason the sync processes ignores them.

  • http://www.simplehelp.net Ross McKillop

    Meggeler – are you using iTunes 9.2 and iBooks 1.1? You’ll need to make sure both are totally up to date.

  • Meggeler

    Sorry, my fault – didn’t get the the new version of iBook. Works now.

  • Sun876

    Hey none of my books are showing up in iBooks.

    yes i hav iTunes 9.2

    and iBooks 1.1

    Thanks! a great guide!

  • http://www.simplehelp.net Ross McKillop

    @Sun876 – is there a PDF tab in iBooks at all?

  • Sun876

    noo there is no PDF tab, theres jst the Edit Store tabs on top… thats it :S

  • Nomi

    I second the above two comments, pdf may be for ipad only. I have iphone and there r no pdf files there but itunes shows books in my memory. I have followed all the steeps u said exactly. But y no pdf tab?!!

  • http://www.simplehelp.net Ross McKillop

    Nomi –

    If you look at the screenshots at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8 you’ll see that they were taken using an iPhone (notice the 3G in the corner etc). You may need to check for updates to make sure you do have the very latest version of iBooks, which came out yesterday.

  • Meggeler

    Nomi – it takes my 2gen iPod Touch to finally show the pdfs. My iPad is at lest 2x quicker :)

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  • berol

    Tanx … a lot

  • Nomi

    Thnx Every1, Although I followed all the steps correctly, turns out problem was with my jailbreak! Now a new version is released redsn0w-0.9.5b5-4 which has fixed my problem. CIao

  • Adam

    If you are having the iBooks PDF problem it is probably due to jailbreak. Fix here http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/722633863/all-four-one

  • Don

    Can you do the opposite? On the iPad save a PDF opened from a web page to iBooks, to be synced to your PC later?

  • http://www.simplehelp.net Ross McKillop

    Don – Assuming you have iTunes set to sync all your books, yes, a PDF file added to iBooks via Safari or an email etc, will be transferred to your PC/Mac the next time you sync.

  • SarahEL

    Thank!! A well written tutorial!!! It was a bit of a pain for the first one, with so many stepd. But the second one took a matter of seconds.

  • Kajitha

    hey i’ve followed your steps but when i click sync books it warns me that all my songs and movies will be deleted. Is there anyway i can sync my pdfs without deleting everything else?

  • Kajitha

    oh nevermind i fixed it

    thanks for the tutorial!

  • Joe

    THANKS! Very Helpful!!!!

  • Daniel

    Thanks excellent tutorial – works great as long as you don’t create any custom genres for your PDFs. Once I categorised my PDFs into a pre-existing genre, they magically appeared (after a few seconds delay.)

  • Lorenzo

    Thanks, for your helpful tutorial. All of my movies, music, audiobooks and TV shows have now been removed from my iPhone. There’s hours of work that I have to look forward to.

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  • Jasperv

    hi,

    I read your description and it seems to be a good one. However, I have a little problem. I’m a windows user, and when I look at my iTunes library, it only contains:
    music, movies, tv shows, apps & podcasts, and not books. Do you have an idea on how to include the section books to my iTunes library.

  • http://sidesdesign@gmail.com sidesey

    Brilliant thanks for the info, worked a treat.

  • mimi

    1. I follow all the steps and still can’t see my pdf files in ibook on my ipod touch 3rd (gen with latest software), though I can see my pdf books under “books” icon in my itunes; Is books in itunes different than ibooks in ipod’s application?
    2. In my ipod touch 3rd, I cannot see “books” icon in the home page. I can only access ibook from applications, which means I will need to use wifi to connect it. Can’t I download free books to my ipod touch if the book is free and read it offline?
    3. My ipod touch doesn’t connect my home wifi even after I gives password for wifi. Don’t know what to do now.

    Can anyone help? thank you.

  • mimi

    sorry, i was wrong. i can read ibook samples from ipod touch when I am off line and the ibook icon is shown on my ipod. But I still can’t import my own pdf files from my itunes into my ipod. i don’t know where went wrong.

  • Hasn

    a very much thank you
    great work, nice and simple

  • http://blogs.systemex.net/Kiliman/ Kiliman

    @Jasperv: To add “Books” to your library, open iTunes, select Edit > Preferences, then in the General tab, check “Books” and click Ok. It will now show up in the Library pane.

  • Faisal

    Thanks alot bro … really great tips !!

  • neil

    nice and simple for a new too iphone person. thanks

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  • http://www.expand2web.com/blog/ Don

    Great instructions. Thank you for writing this up; it worked like a charm!

  • Steve Ducharme

    Thank you for this information – this is very valuable; just got my iPad and I have a lot of PDFs so knowing this process is very helpful.

  • Mike Moon

    Thanks for the post it was very helpful, I have got my PDF’s on my IPAD now.

  • Gaila

    Thank you so much for your help! I’ve been trying all day to get Stanza to work on my phone and toyed around with other readers in the process. I finally downloaded ibooks but worried about converting my pdf files. Thanks to your tutorial, I had them on my itouch in minutes.

  • Renjith

    man you have saved my life… i’ve been trying all my best to put my pdf files into ibooks for past 1 month but no use.. its was so easy the way u told… thanks alot.. dude..

  • Mano

    Thank You. It worked.

  • http://frankfarm.org Frank Farm

    Thanks, this was very helpful!

  • Baqasah

    Thanks a lot

  • svik

    i find it difficult to understand that such an advanced company as apple needs to do the transfer between systems this difficult. it is stone age

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  • Marcus

    Yeah… it works

  • Elaine

    This totally worked and your steps were detailed and clearly explained – thank you so much!!!

  • Rick

    I put some pdf’s into my iphone 4 library, which is great. I put them in via email, now I would like to email one of them from my iphone 4 to someone, is it possible to email a pdf from my iphone?

  • Jadzia

    This works like a charm! Thanks so much for sharing such a useful tutorial.

  • http://intrepidny.com Cathy Marshall

    This is great. I get a lot of PDF’s to review for work. But when I open a PDF(email attachment), I can’t see any of the check boxes! Any suggestions?

  • CaN

    Super help! Clear and accurate. Thanks!

  • http://eraofchris.blogspot.com EP

    i have performed this process. thanks very much. my problem now is to fit the book pages to the iphone window. it’s such a hassle to enlarge the font (for it to be readable) and then have to move from side to side i can read it. is there a way to do it? is converting my pdf to epub first will help? thanks a lot for your help.

  • Meena R

    Thank you so much for this. One of the best and easiest tutorials. Can you please do a similar one on how to transfer VCDs to my ipad? would be eternally grateful!

  • iPod Newbie

    Thx,

    The sync didn’t work for me (iPod Touch 4th Gen), but just by dragging my pdf from the PC library to the iPod, it worked.

  • J Gray

    I’m using iTunes v10 which allows the user to drag and drop a pdf straight into it which can then be added to any iTunes device, however the pages of the pdf are not scaled for my iPhone screen as (as far as I can see) all iBooks do.
    Hmmm… OK they are scaled to fit the whole page onto the screen but it is unreadable as it is too small.
    Is there a way (app?) to trim each pdf page so it fits without having to finger pinch the screen to zoom in and then continually scroll the page both left/right and up/down to read the pdf?

  • Luke

    Sweet, thanks for the very helpful tutorial…so easy when you know how!

  • VJ

    Fantastic post. Works!
    Thanks

  • Mayur

    Thanks man u r gr8

  • Sheila

    I was able to load all my magazine PDFs to my IPAD but none of the photos in the pdfs show up. How can I get them to show up?

  • Henry

    Can I email a PDF file on iBooks to a friend?

  • KarenK

    or… you could buy goodreader for $1.99…

  • http://seith.co.uk Seith

    Brilliant thank you – couldn’t find this

  • Filip

    Thanks! The guide worked perfectly for my iPad.

    I’d been trying to get some PDF books onto it for quite some time now.

  • http://www.sgdreamboard.com Shawn Ang

    Thank you very much. It explains everything here in detail! :)

  • http://www.tashaapparel.com karma

    Thank you so much. I did it on iphone 4 and it worked.

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  • BizoBravo

    Excellent!! Thank you very much kind sir, your solution to adding pdf documents onto my ipod touch was fairly easy and understandable!! Now I shall be able to read manuscripts and manuals easily and all thanks be unto you!!
    ;-D

  • DDD

    Finally, real advice.That worked awesomely, thank you.

  • Vanessa

    Thanks a lot, this was incredibly helpful!

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  • Claire

    Thank you for sharing! Tha’s really helpful!

  • Rab

    Cheers mate..!

  • Rich

    Good, clear advice – thanks.

    But…

    I want to transfer PDFs into iBooks using my computer at work. When I enable the ‘sync books’ option I get a warning that all the existing books already on my phone will be erased!

    Any ideas?

    Thanks :-)

  • A.

    Thank you so much! Very Helpful :)

  • munni

    thnx man it worked

  • http://kya.nu Kya

    Thank you very much for writing this helpful guide, I was able to add PDF files to my iBooks library. :)

  • Gail

    I followed this note and now I cannot sync my books without deleting all my photos and music!!! While it is nice to have the PDF manuals I want on my iPhone, it is NOT nice to have to recover 3000+ photos and 1000+ songs every time I want to add a new manual.

    You can read PDFs WITHOUT doing damage to your system; the capability is built into the iPhone. Just send it as an attachment. Not the nice organization but infinitely less hassle….

  • skiddee

    thanks

  • keith jayson hidalgo

    it really works. hey bro. your the best, this is the best one. thanx.

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  • Gil

    Thanks a lot…

  • http://yea who

    Great man, thanks

  • http://unknowntheartist.wordpress.com unknowntheartist

    OMG, thankyou so much for this tutorial. My other half showed me all the way up until adding the pdf to library and then just gave up. But I have got it going now, so thanks so much!!!

  • amal

    Thanks a lot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.renderedgemedia.com Elliot

    Excellent instructions! Spot on. Worked without a hitch. Thanks because I was clueless otherwise.

  • Suzanne L.

    Another way to read a PDF file is to upload it to your web host/server and read it through the browser. That’s what I’ve done. I try to use iTunes as little as possible. ;)

  • Carlos

    se me hace mejor el app que baje recientemente. les recomiendo el app MisDocumentos para iphone y ipad. Esta muy buena y en espanol. Con este app yo guardo y leo archivos de excel, word, powerpoint y pdf. Es como si tuvieras el folder “My Documents” pero en iphone y sin tener que hacer jailbreak

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  • Subtzi

    Hey , I did everything you said over there , the book shows up in my Ibooks library ..but when i select it it frezzes . and then the screen of my iphone turns black and exits the application. btw from what i could of see the pages are white .. nothing written on them .
    It would be great if you could help me .. :D

  • thomas

    ppl complaining of them having to delete things before transfering is because you have to tie your iphone to 1 computer it will delete everything everytime you switch comps it is so you dont go around to all your buddies comps and take there music and then back to your comp and sync it to you basically pirating stuff.. sucks for us but can see what they are trying to do :)

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  • Matthew

    Thank you so much! This worked so well! Now I have Frankenstein on my iPod Touch!

  • Patrick

    Hi there,

    I did it all but it wiped out my music plus it says that the format is not recognized or is invalid?!

  • Patrick

    Never mind. I figured it out. I still lost all my music though :(

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  • http://www.blog.sweetiegems.com Sweetie Gems

    Thank you for the clear instructions. Got my pdf onto the iPad on first try ! Personally, I don’t like having multiple apps for different things when they can be done in one so this is great!!

  • Radhika Ganesan

    Really Helpful ! Thanks !

  • Madhab

    Thanks a lot…It helped…

  • mmwk

    Hmm… So does this mean Apple has access to what you’re reading and can profile you based upon that (or even report you if.. it seems somewhat illegal ?)

  • JJ

    helpful! merci

  • ndt

    THIS WAS AN AWESOME GUIDE !!!!!

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  • Rachel

    My problem is that my pdfs are never big enough for me to actually read. Can you help me figure out a way to fix this?

  • Ambarish

    Thank you very much……..:) I was able to load all my Pdf’s easily… Thnx again…Good Luck

  • sm

    OK, this is good info and it is working fine for adding PDFs one at a time…..I have tried to add an entire folder with NO results. I choose “add folder to library” and choose the folder to add then click “open” or “ok” but NOTHING happens! Pulling my hair out….suggestions?????

  • Peyman

    Tnx a lot

  • Mar

    Please, can anybody tell me how to rename pdf in the ibooks?
    Thank you

  • Michael

    Thanks so much for this–I deserve the $2.99 loss for not searching a bit more. Bought an app for nothing!! I would’ve gladly submitted it to you for this info! Thanks again!!!

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  • Ricardo

    I’m actually almost done. How can I add notes on pdf files using ibooks?
    Thanks!

  • Anuradha

    It doesnt seem to work for me.. it says all the earlier data will be erased… How do i do this ?? Coz when i go to sync the books to the itouch 4G… i can click on the check boxes… please help.

  • Ez3e

    So cool my brother

    Peace up!

  • Mario

    Is nice that you make this info, kuz i was looking for something like this, thanks

  • Amruddin

    Thanks to all its realy usefull.

  • http://www.a-free-ipod.com Peter Mitchell

    Fantastic help. Finally managed to figure out how to get PDF’s on my iPod Touch

    Cheers again

  • Jx

    I tried changing the Artwork of the pdf file but it dont seem to work. Any idea how can i change the Thumbnail of the pdf file?

  • sunil

    Hey Friends, it’s really easy to put the PDF files in your iPod touch. Manke sure you have the iBook app (can downoad for free from Itunes store and just takes 5 minutes to install in iPod touch). What you have to do is:
    1. Connect Ipod touch with PC and make sure iTunes is runing. (iTunes 10 and later versions+iOS 4.2 or later)
    2. In iTunes, click on the books option in left side menu items.
    3. Drag your PDF files in the books, your PDF books with pictures will be displayed there.
    4. Select your iPod touch in itunes-> go to Books section in iTunes and click on Sync.
    5. All your PDF books from iPod Tuoch will be moved in iBooks library.
    Open and enjoy :)

  • Selfishson

    Thanks a lot. This really helped out.

  • Alan

    iBooks is one of the better pdf readers but if only it would display a double page spread like CloudReaders App. Anyone know of anything better? Thanks

  • Vhee

    Thank you for this VERY VERY helpful info. I just got my iPad yesterday and was close to pulling my hair out because I couldn’t figure out why I could not add my PDF files to my iPad (I’m a first time apple user, apart from my little iPod shuffle which I believe doesn’t really count!) This has been REALLY helpful, and I’ve been googling and visiting sites all morning to try and figure this out.

    Thank you again!!

  • Chauncey

    after emassing a collection of ebooks i thought i’d put them on my ipod and this REALLY helped because i couldnt figure out how to do it. now i can go anywhere and have my books with me. thanks!

  • tplady

    Thanks so much! I really have no idea how to transfer all my massive collection of e-books into my itouch, I tried ‘Stanza’ but i couldn’t navigate through it properly and my listing turned into this huge jumbled mess! But with this tutorial on iBooks I got to transfer all of them in just a few minutes and went straight to reading! Thanks again!

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  • Andrea

    Very helpful – Thank you!

  • Very Thankful

    Thanks! Great help!!

  • http://www.simplehelp.net Lance

    Thank You for this wonderful tutorial…Cheers!

  • Greg M

    Very very helpftul. Thanks.

  • rayed

    that was more then helpful thanks a lot

  • Ray L.

    This is great help and it worked perfectly. Thank you.

  • Leland

    Thanks! What a great tip, and simple, easy-to-follow tutorial!

  • Sasha

    Some kind of weird error is coming up and the pages are blank. Nothing is working. the name of the book is showing up as weird characters

  • andre

    Thanks, great help

  • Aster

    Thank you :)

  • Judd

    I did everything as shown but for some reason nothing is showing in my ibooks. It shows that they are in there in the books tab in itunes though.

  • R.A.Khavar-Nejad

    Splendid enough ta maintain my contact with ” Simplehelp”

  • Ooz

    You are a GENIUS!!!!
    Thanks from Ohio

  • Sarai S.

    Wowww thanks so much!

  • kathy

    My I pad wants to delete the books that I already have in my i book is there a way around that as I have not read all of them yet.

  • Jamie

    THANK YOU

  • iPod Shuffle Manual

    my ipod shuffle becomes unresponsive, I cant turn it off! I Can only somehow control my ipod with the remote on my headphones… is there a soulution ?

  • Kate

    Brilliant thank you – but be careful syncing books first time coz mine wanted to delete all my songs etc and I have a thousand of them, all painstakingly selected from my iTunes as I don’t just add every album I have! Once added to the library just drag and drop from library/books to the iPhone icon as previously mentioned by someone here, quick and easy

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  • marielle

    very helpful and so easy to follow.. thanks guys for sharing ^^

  • Nisha

    Hi, I tried getting my pdfs into iBooks by downloading them as an attachment in my email from Safari, and it worked, but it wasn’t zoomed in at a nice size like all the iBook books are, and I was hoping your instructions would fix that problem, but they haven’t and it’s still exactly the same as my method. Is there any way to make it so that I don’t have to zoom in, and then constantly be moving the page to the side and down to be able to read?

  • Anam

    But there is a PROBLEM.. If I choose to sync books then I get the warning that ALL MY SONGS AND MOVIES WILL BE DELETED. I don’t want them to be deleted. Any other way PLEASE??

  • http://www.dalerrogers.com Dale

    Worked great. Thanks.

  • toangs

    thanks so much

  • Richard

    Doesn’t work. Seems the iTunes PC version doesn’t have a Devices Tab/Section whatever.
    Stupid incompatible Apple. I hate my new iPad.

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  • Philip Jelovsek

    Excellently explained and simple to follow. Thank you for taking the time to write this up.

  • Vanillamonkee

    Richard…when you plug the iPad into your PC and bring up ITunes you will see your IPad listed to the left under “my devices”

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  • Adam

    Thanks, this was a great help. And really simple to follow.

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  • tarn

    thank you !!! this is really helpful for me :)

  • Narayanan

    This is great. very helpful

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  • wanc

    thank you!!!

  • Phoebe

    This was very helpful! Thank you so much! Now I can read textbooks through my phone! :D

  • Sandy

    This was very helpful, thank-you!

  • Leo

    THANK YOUUUUUU

  • sd4uaa

    thank you very much.this is amazing.

  • oldkid6

    Jesus, thank you lord.

  • gem

    thanks so much :)

  • Bob

    Super amazing tutorial! Thank you so much! This really helped! 

  • Ava

    THATS SIMPLY GREAT!!! THANX4SHARING :)

  • Matts2gr8

    I didnt find this helpful at all. the version of itunes your using is old and is not set up at all like the new version.

  • Sk Bailey

    Awesome post!  Thank you!

  • Mrsclassicscrazy

     I got this message the 1st time I tried.  I hadn’t read the instructions correctly.  I hadn’t added the books to the Library on Itunes on my PC desktop first.   When I did that it worked.  Only problem is the print is small.

  • Mrsclassicscrazy

    Thanks for the help.  Instruction clear, only problem is iBooks imports it in small print and I can’t figure out how to enlarge it

  • Anonykous Coward

    You, sir, are a nincompoop if you lack the nous to apply the instructions provided to a newer version of iTunes.

  • Alicat2911

    Ironic that you choose the ‘How to on Windows 7′ book.

  • Lisbeth

    very awesome :)

  • Deeroyals

     This is sooo cute- and so wonderfully “old school.”

  • Angaddev

    Very nice tutorial, Natts2gr8, it’s you who has an old itunes version not us.

  • Lanara

     i agree..  i have the latest version of i-tunes 5.1.1   I cant even find the “sync” tab.  I went through the whole thing step by step and am more frustrated than when I started.  I got an I-pod, not for music of games, but for my school work so that i would not have to lug my laptop around with me.     If this is the correct tutorial for i-pod 3rd generation 32gb.. can someone tell me where I went wrong?  i was able to get as far as “sync books” and as I said, the tab is not there.

  • Lanara

     leave it to me to fine my mistake right after I post.  Mattsgr8,   when he says to go to the “Books” after you click on your i-pod name, he is not talking about where it is listed directly under your device name..he is talking about in the main window at the top.  click there and it will open up the way it is displayed in this tutorial.  then you can sync it.

  • gs

    Great, it worked for me. Thanks a lot the info.

  • MarvinG

    Excellent tutorial. This concept worked perfectly with the iPad 3 syncing from Windows 7.

  • Richard

    Thank you for this tutorial. This site is the best. :)

  • Sam77

    That was clear and easy to follow. Thank you. I mean that sincerely. But What a Stinking Hassle!!! Has Apple never heard of “drag & drop???!!”

  • Kaizaad Kermani

    thank you

  • http://twitter.com/BackpackFarm Rachel Z

    will this work in iPad 1? I followed all the directions but no PDF button appears on the top of the BOOKs page. It also gives me no error message.

  • Jasmine

    Awesome tutorial!! Thanks :)

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  • dudemandude

    i am running up to date vista and most up to date itunes 10.7. when I choose the folder of pdf files, the files dont get added to itunes. I follow the extremely simple instructions to a T and they don’t get added.

  • Steve

    Beautifully done! Thanks!!

  • Guest

    Great tutorial, thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/erin.jory.3 Erin Jory

    thankyou!

  • Jitendra

    Great info. That helped.

  • Gaston

    Awesome! Very helpful and easily explained! Thank you!

  • Danielle

    Thank you so much! This tutorial was very helpful and easy to understand! :) )
    I can finally use my vacant time to review my professors’ slides in my phone. :)

  • Arif Armaan

    thank you, helped a lot and solved my problem.

  • bhanu

    nice one …. very thankful ..to you

  • sd

    Perfect – thank you. Great instrucions and worked perfectly for me to upload pdfs from itunes11 to ipad :)

  • mo

    Very helpful :) thanks!

  • TLB

    I was able to drag and drop mine on my Mac from the Documents file. Easy!

  • QPAT12

    this was very useful..thanks…using the new version and it was still quite easy to go through

  • Mtn Bike Lisa

    Thanks!!!!

  • Prem Krishna Chettri

    Very Helpful

  • Mukesh

    Good tips. Thannks

  • QG

    Thanks so much!!! This is great!!!

  • Kitkat

    Thanks man! You just made my day :)

  • chels

    THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

  • Nile

    Great, thanks!

  • Harry

    This set-up process is a little slow, a faster way is to download ibooks onto your device then open safari and open the link to the pdf. Once its loaded at the top of the page under the address bar to the right there is a button for “open in ibooks” or just open in. Select open in ibooks and then the pdf is auto saved offline for future reading, less steps, no computer involved and easier.

  • Daphne

    FINALLY! I’ve been told before to use all kinds of apps to read my PDF books on my iPad and I hated every single one of them, specially txtr, this is simple and works perfectly.

    Thank you so much.

  • Mridu

    thanks a ton! it is a very well made help document! :)

  • ArU

    Thank u very much bro it actually worked thanks a lot!!!

  • JHShaw

    This advice is obsolete. The newer itunes has a tiny icon in upper left corner. It has no label. It has a menue with “add file to library.” Hope this saves someone a lot of time.

  • Nicola

    Brilliant thanks ever so much, I just couldn’t work it out, really helpful :)

  • Nicola

    Hi Rachael, try looking on the pdf section of the ipad, it will show books on one book case and PDFs on another book case, I hope this helps.

  • Claire

    Thank you so much for all the help.

  • http://twitter.com/harasie Abdulmalik

    I was able to sync and it appeared on my IPod touch 4th gen, but whenever I click on it, it behaves as if it wants to open but it doesn’t. Please help.

  • Jeanine

    Thank you so much. I have been trying to figure this out for over an hour. Bless your heart!

  • Anon

    Why? When I follow these steps exactly, but the book I saved to iTunes is damaged and cannot be open.