Just thought I would let you all know how things turned out with
my gifting that iBook to my sister. I had both good luck and bad
luck in the end, with the very end result turning out to be not
so good.
First, for the success part of the equation. Remember, I was
told I needed to verify my identity with my iPhone 6 before I
could gift the book. I tried just going in and confirming my
payment information, but that didn't work, as I was still told I
needed to verify my identity and put back in the iBooks menu when
I would hit the buy now button. Finally, I went to the app store
and pretended to purchase an iTunes gift card for my sister; and,
because I have two-step verification enabled, there I did get the
opportunity to have a verification code sent to one of my trusted
devices. Then, once verified, I canceled out of purchasing the
iTunes card, and went back to the iBooks store and was then able
to gift her the book.
Second, for the not so successful part of this story. My brother
gave our sister the iPad on which she was going to read the book
in question. And, thinking I heard him say he was giving her the
third generation iPad since he now has the iPad Air 2, I told him
how to set the iPad back to factory defaults. But, unfortunately
for my sister, he gave her his original iPad that can only run
iOS 5.1. Thus, while he could read iBooks on the thing before he
did the reset, now she's getting the message that she needs iOS 7
to download the iBooks app on to the iPad, but of course the iPad
can't run iOS 7. I think my brother gave her that iPad, rather
than a better one, because she has no internet or computer at
home, which means she needs to use Wi-Fi at his house, or maybe
public places, and then download things to read at home. But,
sadly, she can't get any iBooks, or Kindle books, or much of
anything else, for that matter. I feel really bad for her, kind
of having something good put in front of her, and then snatched
away, so to speak, and she really doesn't have any extra income
to purchase something like that on her own. I would have gladly
given her my iPhone 6 plus, but she couldn't have afforded the
data plan. So, perhaps I'll see if I can find her another used
iPad, but one a little more up to date.
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