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Originally Posted by Racegun
Right now I'm playing with one "sacrifice" book in epub. I've downloaded it to itunes and it shows up there but won't open up for reading. I've synced till I weary but it doesn't show there either. I'm beginning to think that the Ipad is just another portal for vendors to sell their wares which is beginning to look like another huge disappointment.
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iTunes does not have a an ePub reader built-in and so you have to install another app on your laptop to read ePubs.
As has been mentioned by others, you will need to
1) install the free iBooks app from the App Store.
2) Connect your iPad to your computer with iTunes.
3) Then to make sure that you aren't being thwarted by sync settings, go to the "Books" section of iTunes and locate the one ePub that you have put there and then drag that to your iPad in iTunes under the "Devices" section in the left-hand side navigation area.
4) After the sync has completed (should be only a couple of seconds), then open iBooks on your iPad - no need to disconnect - and after possibly a few seconds the book that you dragged to your iPad should appear on the bookshelf.
The other apps such as Stanza and Bluefire are also free but have somewhat different methods of getting the ePub onto the iPad where the app can see it. After you have the iBooks app working and you want to check out other readers then you can explore them.
A key point to understand is that the iPad OS is different from your laptop OS in that each app has its own file area and apps generally can not share files like an ePub between each other. Each app has to have its own copy of the file.