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(I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, I found partial answers already in the forum but I'm still stuck!)

I have an iPad with ebooks in a variety of formats: kindle, kobo, ibooks, and various PDF readers. I'd like to either pull them off the iPad or collect them from the kindle, kobo, itunes stores, etc.

I started by installing the kindle and kobo desktop readers (for windows) and downloaded all my purchases. But I can't seem to find any of these ebooks in calibre anywhere. I tried connecting to my iPad, I tried adding books from the kindle folder on my PC, and also the (obscurely hidden) kobo folder, but none of the files were recognised.

I feel I'm missing something important. Surely, it's just a matter of reading/detecting all my ebook files (epub, kepub, azw, azw4, pdf, etc.) and pouring them into the calibre library? I'd like to convert and edit some of these files, and I have hundreds of my own PDFs that I'd like to put into kindle and kobo formats (as well as some books with enabled audio that only seems to work in ibooks for some reason).

Please can you point me in the right direction and/or explain what I'm doing wrong.

many thanks...

- update: I've now managed to discover my kindle ebooks. It seems one has to click on the Add Books icon not the drop down arrow to the side of the icon... or it may have been that the ebooks hadn't downloaded yet from the kindle desktop app...?

(Strangely, there are now more kindle ebooks in my calibre library than on my kindle desktop app... I'm really not sure what's going on - but that might be a kindle software problem and nothing to do with calibre.)

Another related question is where do the ebooks go when I Send To Device? Will the ebooks appear in their respect ibooks, kindle, kobo apps - or will they all end up in the itunes/ipod app. I don't really want to mess up what's already on my ipad - and I can't find details about this in the manual.

thanks again for your help...