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I'm sure that I must be missing something obvious but I can't work out how to get books off my iPad onto Calibre on my Mac.

The iPad is running Kindle, iBooks and Google reader; I want to manage all my books in a single place and have downloaded Calibre to my Mac. Despite reading the Calibre instructions, consulting forums and Google I still can't work out how to get the books off the iPad and onto Calibre.

Manual 4.1 states that with the device connected to computer a Device icon will appear next to Books in toolbar. This does not seem to be the case.

An old Forum reply by Kovid Goyal states 'If you are using the latest release of calibre you can just drag and drop books from the device view onto the calibre icon to add them to your calibre library.' What is the 'device view'. An iPad icon appears in iTunes when it's connected but there is no list of purchased books. If I command (right) click on this icon it gives me the option to 'Transfer Purchases' but then tries to import all of my Apps from the iPad.

I'm sure Calibre will be useful if I can ever get it to work. There must be Mac + iPad users out there who can advise me what I'm missing.

Thanks,

Mike