05-28-2010, 09:00 PM | #1 |
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Questions from iPad first-timer
Hi everyone
Got my iPad today. Love it so far! Just a few reading questions: 1) I found a site with a slew of great free comic books on it. What app do I use to get them onto the iPad? I downloaded the Marvel Comics app but do not see a way to load your own stuff into it. 2) iTunes is crashing every time I try to load my own epub into iBooks. It gets nearly all the way there, then crashes. Any suggestions? Or any other apps I can use to load my own content? 3) I am thinking of getting Keynote so I can make storybook presentations for my students. If I make the presentation from on the iPad itself, how do I get it onto my computer later for backing up? 4) Is there a way to tell it to always open the iPod Touch apps in 'big' mode, or so I have to manually click the biggifier each time? Thanks in advance for any assistance! |
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05-28-2010, 11:39 PM | #4 |
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keynote can export through itunes to keynote on a mac.
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05-30-2010, 01:18 AM | #5 |
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Thank you. It turns out you cannot drag and drop directly onto the iPad for ebook, tey have to be in iTunes first and then transferred. When I took that extra step, it all worked. I appreciate the comic book recs. I am not sure I want to spend $8 but we'll see
The app store is a bit of a mess, isn't it? It used to have sub-categories so you could browse the whole thing (e.g. apps---games---board games) but no longer. It was a pain to try and find things. |
05-30-2010, 03:28 AM | #6 |
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That's not my experience. I've put ePub books onto my iPad by doing a drag and drop directly from Windows Explorer onto the "Books" page of the iPad in iTunes.
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05-30-2010, 04:33 AM | #7 |
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Strange. For me it's the same as for ficbot. I put them in iTunes, they appear in "books" and only then I can drag them to iPad.
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05-30-2010, 04:55 AM | #8 |
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To clarify - I can't drag directly to the iPad's "Books" icon in iTunes. I have to click that icon first, then drag from Windows Explorer to the "contents" portion of the window. Doing that works fine.
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05-30-2010, 01:52 PM | #9 |
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Cloudreader is free and the page rendering of comic archives is every bit as good as in the pay apps. It's missing some bells and whistles such as the lack of a graphical library titles view but that's a minor inconvenience. Try that first before you start spending money on apps like Comic Zeal.
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05-30-2010, 02:07 PM | #10 |
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That is odd. On the Mac, I can just drag any media (including ePubs) anywhere over the "LIBRARY" area of the sidebar in iTunes, and it will take it fine.
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How iTunes syncs to the iPad depends on some settings: http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/20...d-quickly.html |
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05-31-2010, 06:09 AM | #13 |
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Strange for me this is already working on my iPhone Apps that i am using on my iPad. (Some games like Monkey Island, Galaxy on fire, WOL etc.)
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05-31-2010, 05:50 PM | #14 |
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I have a file on my desktop called Ebooks. I add files individually from that ebook folder to my itunes account. They then sync into ibooks. Really lovely process really.
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