Can you break this down into steps? I know it’s ePub, but recommend some specific apps, outline procedures, and help a new reader use a device which is getting more common.
How do you get a Closed Circle book onto your iPad? Reader expertise, please?
by CJ | Oct 16, 2012 | Journal | 10 comments
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There are a number of different ways. The simplest:
1. Download the epub version of the ebook
2. Open iTunes (which one uses to manage content on the iPad)
3. Click and drag the epub file to the “Books” section of the left iTunes sidebar
4. Sync your iPad with iTunes
WorksForMe(tm). 🙂
I second. You don’t even have to start iTunes. Drop the ePub file on the iTunes icon and it should open iTunes and import the file.
If you don’t use iTunes, you might try Calibre. It’s free and works on all platforms. It can also convert files to almost any format and load to almost any reader ever built.
If you’re using iBooks, proceed as above.
Also, you can email yourself the epub file, and use ‘open in’ to specify where you want to add the book. (This doesn’t work with exceedingly large files, but the chances of anyone encountering a 73MB file are very slim. I hope.)
If you’re using an application like Stanza (which I like better on the iPhone than on the iPad) you can email as above or go to the ‘apps’ tab in iTunes, click ‘add’ and navigate to the file, it will then turn up in your Stanza (etc) library.
I find it easier to download items when I’m using my iPhone rather than going through the computer, but that’s personal taste – the download gives you a choice of apps to open it with.
If you use Calibre, it has a built-in web server you can use (click on the connect/share icon at the top). Several reader apps (such as MegaReader, my current reader of choice) will just automatically find Calibre if you’re on the same network. Others can be manually configured. Or you can open it in your web browser of choice, click on the book, and select open with… your favorite app.
Simple Way: In Safari (or, I suppose, whatever other iPhingie browser app you’ve loaded onto the iPhingie), navigate to the page that has the download, tap on the download, and select “open in” for the desired e-reader. (iBooks comes up by default in the middle of the screen, but I prefer Stanza at all times. Still, there are plenty of free e-readers on the App Store.)
Slightly more complex way: Download epub to computer. Plug in iPhingie. Click on “applications.” Scroll down to the very bottom. Select the e-reader application you want. Click “open” in the screen to the right. Navigate to the file you desire to reside on your iPhingie and select it. You do not have to even sync to have this work, at least when loading stuff into Stanza.
Way I hear works: If you have a Kindle account, there’s something you can do to email to your Kindle app, I think, and it’ll put it into your Kindle library. Or something like that. I cling to Stanza by preference, so I wouldn’t know.
Glossary: iPhingie = iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone… iPhingie!
I have also found that one doesn’t even have to pick out the epub file from the closed circle folder that contains a number of different formats. The whole folder can be dropped into the iTunes library and it takes out of the folder the format it needs. And, as said by CapnKirk above, the next time you sync, the book will be moved to your iPad.
I might add, eHow has a good series of illustrated articles on managing the iPad.
*escaping lurker mode*
I store all ebooks in Dropbox. Then when I want to read one I just chose which app to use to read the file. This way they are available on all devices I might ever own that can access Dropbox.
Personally I prefer Stanza but all apps that can read the fileformat will be presented in a list – just chose your preferred one!
I might add that this is kind of a workaround for my issues with iCloud but it works well for getting files onto your iOS device 🙂
And Jane has found out how to make the USB connection work, too: she’s going to be putting up screenshots, she says, with explanations: http://janefancher.com/HarmoniesOfTheNet
Yes to what others have said above.
It’s easy to drag and drop, or to go to the iTunes menu and “Add files to library” to add the ebook you’ve downloaded to your computer.
I keep a folder for ebooks, then folders within that for .epub, .mobi, etc. ThenI can add the preferred format to the given ereader, either iOS (iPad, iPhone, etc.) or Kindle apps.
Yes, Stanza is available for the iPad and iPhone.
1. Download your ebook in the desired formats and save to disk.
2. Within iTunes, go to the Apps tab, then go down to the very bottom, where it lets you upload files from your computer to your iPad, or download them from your iPad to your computer. Select the app (Stanza, for instance) in the left-hand panel, and in the right-hand panel, browse to add the ebooks you want to add.
3. Sync your iPad (or iPhone). Done.
You need to have your ebooks backed up, so if you disconnect your external drive or your computer goes kaput, you can still get your ebooks back onto your iPad. The same goes for if you switch computers, such as the computer with which your iPad is synched.
The Kindle app for iPad and iPhone is supposed to manage adding a copy of the ebook automatically to your iPad. — But it is even easier simply to open the Kindle app on your iPad, then click on Cloud at the bottom, and tap to download any Amazon Kindle ebooks you’ve purchased. — Third-party ebooks, you will have to use the method outlined above for adding files to an app, where I talked about Stanza.
Yes, Calibre will also let you manage moving ebooks onto and off of your iPad.
Of Note: The Kindle app for PC/Windows has several times now “forgotten” some setting that lets it stay in contact with Amazon’s website / servers. So I have, on several occasions, had to Remove the Kindle for Windows program and re-download and Reinstall it. Phooey. Whatever their problem, it keeps cropping up in later versions of the program. I’ve basically stopped using the Kindle app to read ebooks on my laptop (or late lamented desktop). I now use my iPad by preference for that. My Kindle reader itself is old, previous to the Fire or the new Paper-White displays. Again, I use my iPad instead, by preference, though it isn’t good in bright sunlight. But…I don’t feel an urgent need to get a new Kindle, attractive as they sound. (I’m waiting a version or two beyond the newest iPad, also.)