On 09/01/2013 19:14, steve harley wrote:
on 2013-01-09 2:06 mike wilson wrote
Or is it iPad? Anyway, I happened across about 40,000 kindle files.
They load easily on a Kindle or a PC with the Kindle reading app.
However, a friend of a friend wants to read them on his Apple tablet
but, although they apparently transfer across and he has the app to
read them, the beast cannot find the files.
Are there any obvious things that could be checked at about a
continent's distance?
the problem is not distance so much as clarity; from what you wrote,
it's hard to be sure whether these are literally Kindle files (.mobi) or
some other ebook format, and hard to know what "apparently transfer
across" means
The joy and irriatation of the internet all rolled into one... They are
mobi files, on DVD. I'm not sure how he is trasnferring them to the pad.
as Walter notes, there is a Kindle app, which works great for content
tied to your Kindle account, and will also automatically open a kindle
file if you can load it via URL in Safari on the iPad; if these two
cases don't apply, then you'll need to "sideload" the files to the iPad;
most direct is to connect iPad to a computer and launch iTunes, then
select the iPad in the sidebar, and the Apps tab; scroll down to File
Sharing, select the Kindle app, and drag the files into the Kindle
Documents window
I shall pass these instructions over in case this is different to his
present procedure.
there are other ways, such as syncing via Dropbox (for active Dropbox
users this is easier than using iTunes), then using the Dropbox app to
open the file in the Kindle app, and there are may be other apps that
can read .mobi files; this is an extremely common question so there a
many resources on the web that go into more detail; there are also tools
which convert .mobi files to pdf, ePub etc. which makes them usable in
more apps
Even better news. Many thanks to thos who answered, both here and
offlist. If anyone wants a copy of the files (just don't ask me to list
them) please ask. I will write another set of discs and we can
institute a snailmailing list.
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