Back before the great MacBook crash of... well, 2013; a recent tragedy... I edited one of my own books, a work of fiction, with Sigil. It was my first attempt to use it and I thought I had the hang of it. It looked fine and I was able to save it as an .epub file, emailed it to myself and was able to both open and read it in iBooks on my iPhone and iPad. Life is good. Or was, until I lost the flash drive I saved all my work on (let's not forget the great MacBook crash). Today, I decided to sync my iPhone on this new computer and had no problem doing that without loss of data (replaced the Library ID string in the plist with my old one) but with this one exception: the book I'd edited on Sigil. It showed up in iBooks on my iPhone just fine but when I plugged the iPhone into the new MacBook, clicked its icon and took a look at iBooks, all of my books were sitting right there on my iPhone, except the edited one. When I unplugged the iPhone and looked directly at it (not via iTunes) the book was there. When I plugged the phone back into the Mac and looked via iTunes, it is not on the list. I went ahead with the sync and all of my books transferred over to the Mac, except my own edited one. It is no longer on my iPhone, either. It IS, however, on my iPad, but the same story: I can see it in iBooks on my iPad but can't see it when I view the iPad's contents via iTunes. It doesn't appear on the list. I'm afraid to sync because I have no other copy and it looks probable that I'll lose it. (Of course, I would back up the iPad first, but I backed up the iPhone and still lost the edited book.)
When I edited it with Sigil, it was saved as an .epub file. I do notice, however, that it has no category. It's the only one in my iBooks library with no category (i.e., Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction, etc.) which makes me wonder if this is why it won't show up and therefore won't sync to iTunes. And, of course, I can't edit it within iBooks, so I'm chewed, there.
All that to ask this: can any of you think of what I must have done wrong that has caused this book to only be viewed on iBooks' bookshelf from within the iPad (but not when viewing iPad's contents via iTunes)? And, more importantly, is there no way to recover this book, short of manually and painstakingly highlighting and copying each page into an App Store text editor? Or, question number three: is this an iBooks issue rather than a Sigil issue?
I have a headache.
