If you cannot update to iOS 9.3, you might want to consider using either Google Play Books or the Kindle app. Once those ebooks are backed up, they can be downloaded from other iDevices that are tied to the same Apple account, a nd that is a problem if you want to keep your ebooks secure. If, for example, you are reading a PDF with sensitive or proprietary info, you don’t want it getting into your iCloud account (Apple’s servers have been hacked before).īut if you have security concerns, I’m sure you thought of that issue. In fact, I don’t know of a way to disable the sync feature, other than disabling iCloud.

It will back up your entire iBooks ebook library to iCloud, including the ebooks you have downloaded from free ebook sites (as well as the annotations for those ebooks). That first step is a killer, especially if your older iDevice can’t run iOS 9 (luckily you do have other options), but once you are past that point you should have no trouble at all.īased on what I have seen, and on similar reports over at MobileRead, iCloud for iBooks is automatic.

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