After I updated my iPad to iOS 5.0, the covers of most of my books in iBooks went missing. Don’t know why, but I know many had the same issue.

Missing covers in iBooks

I didn’t look at it until tonight, and found the solution to be simple, but successful: Remove the books, and then add them again. Seems like overkill, but it is the only way I could make it work.

And how do you do it? Just pop into iTunes while connected, go to the Books tab, and un-tick the Sync Books box. iTunes will tell you it will delete the books from the iPad, and that’s OK for you.

Un-sync books in iTunes

And after the books are gone from the iPad, tick the box again, and the books will be transferred back. It takes a couple of minutes before it registered all the covers, but I have all mine now.

Udating iBooks covers

And here are the good part: If you had created different collections iBooks, it will remember these, and sort your books for you. But they will not be in the same order.

Covers in iBooks