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Originally Posted by john fun
@sapphiresilver
I have just located that software as well. Here are my preliminary results.
I have downloaded a (Windows) program which gives me some access to my iPad1 files.
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It is called iPhone Explorer v 2.101 http://www.macroplant.com/iphoneexplorer/ and is supposed to work with iPad as well as iPhone.
This is what I see.
*open Media and I see 12 subdirectories and 3 files.
*open the Books subdirectory
*I see a number of directories with the file description ".epub"
*To take an random example, the 2nd file is ABCZ.epub
*It has 2 subdirectories and 2 files.
*The directories are "590" and "META-INF".
*I open 590 and see a number of files, the important ones being 3 htm files referring to Gutenberg.org: e.g www.gutenberg.org@files@590@590-h@590-h-0.htm On the face of it, this is a htm file.
*My deductions are that some epub books loaded into iBooks (not purchased from Apple) are located in the file structure of iPad. The OS seems to create folders at random with 4 letter capitals file names. Inside the folders the books seem to have been converted to html. Nothing indicates the name of the book. |
It is not being converted to html. The epub document is being expanded. If you check our wiki article on ePUB you will find that an epub file is really a zip file containing multiple xhtml documents and a few metadata support files. It would seem that the reading tool cannot handle an epub directly and is unzipping it. These files are all duplicates of the files contained inside the epub file. You could actually recreate the epub by zipping them back up and renaming the extension to .epub. Thus if you have the epub as well you need not worry about backing up the individual directories and files.
The folder names are not random. They are the names that were given to the folders when they were originally created for the ePUB. It can be educational to take an epub file on your computer and rename the extension to .zip and then unzip it to see how it is put together.
Dale