Hi Pentaxian friends.
I have several buyers of my e-books that would like to upload their e-book(s) to the iPAD or the Amazon Kindle, and other reading devices as well. (Sony, Nook, etc) My e-books are all in PDF format. I use the Microsoft Platform as my main computer and I am not all that familiar with the Apple products. I have some readers that have the iPAD but run Microsoft as their main computer.
Any help would be appreciated. I know there are Gurus out there. Let us ear from you.
Thank you in advance from all the people you will help.
I have several buyers of my e-books that would like to upload their e-book(s) to the iPAD or the Amazon Kindle, and other reading devices as well. (Sony, Nook, etc) My e-books are all in PDF format. I use the Microsoft Platform as my main computer and I am not all that familiar with the Apple products. I have some readers that have the iPAD but run Microsoft as their main computer.
Any help would be appreciated. I know there are Gurus out there. Let us ear from you.
Thank you in advance from all the people you will help.
11 comments:
Michael Elenko , Nov 12, 2010; 11:37 p.m.
Yvon,
Within an hour of owning an iPhone 4, I purchased ReaddleDocs and recommend it highly. It is supposed to be even better on the iPad. Essentially a document and file manager, ReaddleDocs lets you drag and drop most any file into a section of iTunes where it is transferred to your device. On your device it acts pretty much like File Explorer or the Finder where you create folders and store files. It reads Word, Excel, PDF, and jpeg files instantly too. It also has its own html file browser. From the app you can email files too.
And yes, in ReaddleDocs on my iPhone I keep manuals for my DSLRs, strobes, various reference docs, and a few favorite image files.
One of the best $5 I've ever spent on software.
ME
iBooks on iPad/iPhone supports pdf directly if thats any help.
Greg
Yvon:
You can try converting your document in Sigil to the ePub format that can be read by a variety of ebook readers.
Link: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/
It is free and relatively easy to use. You can also create chapter headings, section headings by using the html-like tags
John
The pdfs can be viewed as is on a Kindle. However, I recommend using Calibre, a freeware ebook converter and manager. Converting the pdf to .mobi will let the document flow normally, whereas a pdf will show as a series of page images, even the text.
Yvon
I decided to have a go at putting one of your e-books on my Kindle. I bought the book and got it to my desktop ok. I still have to use the provided password to open it, is that normal? Anyway after opening with the password the book looks great, the side menu makes navigating the book easy.
I downloaded the Calibre program that David suggested, it looks to be a great program but it would not work with your e-book as it is "DRM protected"
Still in my bumbling way I managed to transfer the book to my Kindle but could not open it "DRM protected" again.
Is there a way that I can remove the password and or the DRM ?
For iPad's, the default iBook reader can read PDF files. Problem is, it's fairly slow especially for graphic heavy files.
A good app is CloudReaders - which is available for free in the App store. I've used it for PDF versions of Photography magazines and it renders PDF files much much faster than iBook. Plus it allows you to scroll to the middle of the page in two-up view. (Useful if you want to view a 2 page photograph for example).
If you really want to use iBooks though, you can download Calibre. It is a free program that can convert between different formats of ebooks. So for example, you can convert PDF files to epub format - the default format for iBooks. The iPad renders epub format books much much faster than PDF files.
Hope this helps.
Hi Yvon,
Posted this tip as a comment on an earlier post of yours, but I'll reiterate it in case it's of any use to anyone :)
I had some issues loading the PDF of your K-7 book on an iPad, but I fixed them by saving it out as a PDF-X using Preview on OS X (Preview is the built-in PDF viewer on OS X).
Bizarrely, it's the only PDF I've had problems with on the iPad, but sadly no idea what the specific problem is.
Adrian
Having just bought an eReader, mine is a Kobo eReader on sale for $119.00. However, I found the instructions for loading books very confusing and I am good with computers, I imagine what it will be like for the average user.
I solved the problem of loading books into my reader and would like to share the information with other buyers of ereaders and although this info is regards the Kobo ereader, some of the content will apply to other readers such as Sony or Kindle.
First a word regarding file formats, the Kobo accepts EPUB and PDF files, I found that all the books and publications were available in one of these formats and text files can be converted to PDF with most computers. Some of the other ereaders such as Kindle use different format files, than Kobo.
Most of the titles from the BC library are copyright works and are protected from being copied by DRM (digital rights management) and the reason for the complicated procedure for getting these works into your ereader. Some of the popular titles you will have to request by placing a hold on the book, don’t be surprised to find that 30 or 40 other persons are in line in front of you for that title but there are 10000 books in the library. But as the ebook readers become more popular, the wait list can only get longer.
Download and install, Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)
Go to BC Library web site
Log in with library and card number
Select titles from eCatalog
In: My Account
Select My eBookshelf
Click download with book of choice
In dialog box select Open (Not Save)
ADE opens and loads book
With kobo attached to computer with supplied cable
Drag title from right hand panel to Kobo in left hand panel
Book transfers into kobo
Now eject ereader by going to hidden icons on task bar and selecting lock icon w green checkmark (safely remove hardware and eject media) now unplug cable to kobo.
Kobo will check for new content and be ready to use
Note:::: there will be other ways to do the same task, this will get you going with no hassles, I imagine bought ebooks will work the same way as above.
I installed it on my Nook. I played around with different setting and its really difficult to read and follow. The pages are broken up, and the words are split and put into other sentences. I would like to find out if I can convert it to Nooks format. Nook can read pdf. However, many pdf's just are not great to read on the Nook. Calibre didn't work for me. The DRM message would not allow me to convert it.
Also, when you get to page 6, it will lock the nook up. You have to shut off the Nook, and open a page pass page 6.
Specifically, in case you have anyone else asking, using the latest OS X 10.6, in the Preview application, I selected "Save as..." then the format is "PDF" and 'Quartz Filter' is "Create Generic PDFX-3 Document". The file balloons out to 110 MB, but it now displays fine on the iPad.
Time for some reading. My new K-5 should arrive in early January. Can't wait!
PDF's can display on iPads and iPhones. The former is a decent platform. The screen on the latter is just too small to make the experience pleasant. I'd say the same of e-readers like the Kindle or Nook, except the 10inch Kindle. PDF is just a clunky format for screen reading on smaller screens.
I have formatted a manual for e-readers in mobi and e-pub formats and understand the effort involved. However, that's the way I'd prefer to have the manual. I can slip my Kindle or iPod Touch in my pocket and always have the book with me. The PDF I have now needs a laptop or iPad to be decently readable. I don't own the former and find the latter too awkward to use as a field guide.
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