See your books and audiobooks on all your devices with Books on Mac
With iCloud, you can choose to have books, audiobooks, PDFs, collections, highlights, notes and bookmarks appear automatically in Books on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch when you’re signed in with the same Apple ID. If you purchased a book or audiobook on another device, you can easily download it on your Mac.
With Bluetooth®, your audiobooks appear automatically in the Audiobook app on your Apple Watch and CarPlay, so you can listen on the go.
Use iCloud to see content in Books from all your devices
On your Mac: Choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click [your name] at the top of the sidebar. (If you don’t see your name, click “Sign in with your Apple ID” to enter your Apple ID or to create one.) On the right, click iCloud, then click iCloud Drive (make sure it’s turned on). Click “Apps syncing to iCloud Drive”, then make sure Books is turned on.
On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: Go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud (or Settings > iCloud). Below Apps Using iCloud, tap Show All, then make sure iCloud Drive and Books are turned on.
Customise what content to sync in Books across devices
In the Books app on your Mac, choose Books > Settings, then click General.
Do any of the following:
Select Home to see what books and audiobooks you’re reading across your Apple devices.
Select “Collections, bookmarks and highlights” to see your collections, bookmarks, highlights and recent book info across your Apple devices.
Listen to audiobooks on the go
On your Apple Watch: By default, you can sync up to two audiobooks from your Home or Want to Read collection to your Apple Watch. You can also sync audiobooks to your Apple Watch manually. See Add audiobooks to Apple Watch in the Apple Watch User Guide.
With CarPlay: You can listen to audiobooks while you drive. See Play audiobooks with CarPlay in the iPhone User Guide.
Manually update and transfer items between devices
You can also use a cable to update and transfer items between your Mac and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. See Intro to syncing your Mac and your devices.
You can hide books and audiobooks you purchased from the Book Store that you don’t want to see on your devices. Hidden items don’t appear in your library or in iCloud. If you have Family Sharing set up, your family members can’t see or download hidden books or audiobooks.