How to add your PDFs to iBooks and organize them
Thanks to the new iBooks app in OS X Mavericks, it’s easy to store and read your ebooks—be they purchased from the iBookstore or elsewhere (as long as they’re in the .epub or .ibooks format). But you can also keep PDFs in iBooks, too, and even organize them to your liking—though Apple’s tools still leave a bit to be desired on that front.
Add your PDFs
Adding PDFs to the iBooks app is easy. Just drag and drop them onto the iBooks screen, or go to File > Add to Library (Shift-Command-O) and select the applicable file.
If you want to add a whole bunch of PDFs, or you’re looking for PDFs from your hard drive to add, you can do a quick Finder search to find them. To get all PDFs on your hard drive, open a Finder window, then type Kind:PDF in the search bar. The option Kinds - PDF Document should appear below the search bar. Click it, and you’ll see all PDF files on your hard drive; from there you can drag and drop to your liking.
Unlike the old iBooks section in iTunes, the iBooks app doesn’t let you adjust or alter metadata for books you’ve added yourself—so if your PDF has a weird name and author, you may have to adjust that in a different program (like Adobe Acrobat) before uploading to iBooks. In addition, when you add a book to your iBooks library, it doesn’t transfer the PDF—it makes a copy. As such, you may end up with two different copies of your PDFs if you decide to add a bunch of them.
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