[MSWallack]

I have an iPad 3 that I use for eBooks (mostly in iBooks, though I've been slowly - very slowly - beginning to transition to Marvin). I used to use iTunes to move eBooks to the iPad but stopped doing so a year or so ago. Now, I simply email the books to an email account dedicated to my iPad (yes, I know there are probably better ways ... sigh). And I haven’t been using iTunes to manage the eBooks, so they’re not in my iTunes library (at least not the books that I've added in the last year or so). And I have a lot of books on my iPad.

Anyway, I recently purchased an iPad Mini. I set this up as a restored device; however, none of my eBooks transferred. So now I’m trying to find the easiest way to get my eBooks from the old iPad to the iPad mini. I've tried both iFunBox and iExplorer. I can see the book folders in iExplorer, but they appear to be exploded HTML and related files instead of .epub files. I've also found in the iBooks app folder a bunch of additional files (covers and SQL-type database entries). So I'm not really sure what to copy from iPad to computer and then to iPad Mini. And I'm not sure if there is a better way. I thought about trying to copy the files from the iPad to Calibre and then back to the iPad Mini, but Calibre can't copy files from the devicee.

If there's a simple way so that my customized bookshelf view is retained (I've sorted by author and then by series and it took my a loooong time...), I'd be thrilled.

Any suggestions?