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Some quick respones to the ideas (and thanks, everyone!):
1) When I try to copy the books from the iPad to iTunes, I'm unable to do so manually. Just the circle with the line through it. Apparently, I have to have iTunes set to manage the books. When I try to click that button (and the button to allow me to only manage selected books), iTunes tells me that it will erase whatever is on the iPad to replace it with what is in iTunes.
2) Backup & Restore. I tried. Twice. I guess that because iTunes isn't managing the books, they don't restore. What was weird was that when I did the restore, it looked like all of the books were present on the iPad mini ... and then they vanished. Twice.
3) iCloud. Hmm. I guess I should have thought of that (and I may still try it). I've been wary of iCloud, not because of security concerns, but because we have 5 iPhones and 3 iPads in our family, and I simply haven't taken the time to try to figure out how best to utilize iCloud. (I want us each to have cloud backups, but my kids don't need access to my stuff, and vice versa; I think that there is a way to do that, but I haven't put the effort in to figure it out.)
4) Storing books in Calibre. I do. But until now, I've just been exporting the books from Calibre and then emailing them to the iPad. Ineffecient, I know. When I tried to bulk copy from Calibre to the iPad mini ... I got an error (which I submitted to Kovid and has apparently been fixed for the next release).
So here is where I am. I've been planning on transitioning to Marvin ... and this fiasco made the transition a higher priority. Long story short (and I can give details to anyone interested), I was able to use Calibre to determine which books were on my iPad and then bulk copy those books from Calibre to Marvin on the iPad mini.
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