backup and access to PDFs in Books app 🤔❓

The last 10 years I have downloaded from the Internet, organized and annotated over 1000 PDFs in the apple Books app.


however, I when I look into iCloud.com I cannot find the books app and my PDFs 🤔


I want to make sure that these PDFs are all backed up if I lose my iPad or iPhone (on apps syncing to iCloud Drive I have turned on Books)

Can someone confirm that this is happening 🤞 even though I cannot find where they reside in the cloud

iPad Pro, iPadOS 17

Posted on Jun 2, 2025 3:11 PM

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Jun 9, 2025 2:02 PM in response to picas

Hey Picas thank you for trying to answer my question 🙏


I am still not aware whether my pdf’s in books are backed up somewhere in the cloud as pages documents are for example.

I guess, if I were to buy a digital book in the bookstore of the Book app it would be secure, because it is already in the cloud. However, all my PDFs are scientific articles from elsewhere.


I just need to find out if I need to use a party program to get all my PDFs off the Apple book app and back them up and then maybe find another PDF application to use on my iPad that has the possibility of backing up it’s content.


Best regards Lars

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