Connect the iPad to the PC and launch iTunes. Select your iPad on the left side under the devices heading. (in iTunes 11 go to View>Show Sidebar in order to see the sidebar). Drag the pdf files to the Books heading under Library on the left sidebar. Then select the books to sync in the books tab of the iTunes window on the right. The pdf files will appear in iBooks - assuming that you have installed it on the iPad.
You can also revisit an old favorite you’ve already read in the new Finished collection. The all-new Book Store. Swipe from book to book to see which book covers, descriptions, and reviews catch your eye, then add the books you’re interested in to your Want to Read list. Can an iPad Read Kindle Books? This is an important question for anyone with a large Kindle collection. Fortunately, the iPad can read Kindle books. Find out how.
You can install Adobe Reader as well and use file sharing as explained here.
This is assuming that these books in pdf format have no copyright restrictions.
Apr 21, 2013 7:05 AM
Your iPad mini includes an e-reader, but you need books in order to use it. There are many options for downloading books to your iPad: the iBooks Store, buying books from Kindle or NOOK apps, or finding free books.
How to buy a book for your iPad mini from iBooks Store
Assuming that the book meets or exceeds your lofty standards, and you’re ready to purchase it, here’s how to do so:
If you buy another book within 15 minutes of your initial purchase, you aren’t prompted for your iTunes password again.
How to buy books for your iPad mini from beyond Apple
The business world is full of examples where one company competes with another on some level, only to work with it as a partner on another level. When the iPad first burst onto the scene in early April 2010, pundits immediately compared it to Amazon’s Kindle, the market-leading electronic reader.
Sure, the iPad had the larger screen and color, but the Kindle had a few bragging points too, including a longer battery life (up to about a month on the latest Kindle, versus about ten hours for the iPad), lighter weight, and a larger selection of books in its online bookstore.
How To Get Free Books On Ipad
But Amazon has long said that it wants Kindle books to be available for all sorts of electronic platforms, and the iPad, like the iPhone and iPod touch before it, is no exception. So, take a look at the free Kindle app for the iPad, especially if you’ve already purchased a number of books in Amazon’s Kindle Store and want access to that wider selection of titles.
The Barnes & Noble NOOK app is also worth a look. In fact, both Barnes & Noble and Amazon are competing against the iPad with smaller, less-expensive tablets, the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD and HDX, respectively. Google is doing the same with the Nexus 7 tablet (with its Google Play app). And there are numerous other players in the space.
You can find several other e-book–type apps for the iPad in the App Store. Here are some e-book apps, just to name a few:
Can I Download Audio Books On My IpadHow to find free books for your iPad mini from outside iBooks StoreCan I Download Books Onto My Ipad
Apple supports a technical standard — ePub, the underlying technology behind thousands of free public-domain books. You can import these to the iPad without shopping in the iBooks Store. Such titles must be DRM-free, which means that they’re free of digital rights restrictions.
To import ePub titles, you can download them to your Mac or PC (assuming that they’re not already there) and then sync them to the iPad through iTunes. There are other methods. If you have Dropbox, for example, you can bring an ePub into your account, and from Dropbox you can share the title with iBooks. You can also e-mail them as an attachment.
Can I Download E-books On My Ipad
You can find ePub titles at numerous cyberspace destinations:
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