[tonyfromoz]

Apologies in advance if this question has been asked, and perhaps you can point me to an answer.
With my purchase of ipadAir2 I gave my ipad3(64gb) to my wife and reclaimed my old ipad1(64gb) intending to use it for music and ebook reading. Did reset and now I'm in a swamp of trouble, AppsStore/iTunesStore won't connect (I've wasted 3 hours working through the claimed best hacks/applesupport web FAQs, resets, time changes etc and no success), iCloud telling me about claimed server identity issues and refusing to connect etc.
But most relevantly iBooks latest version will not load to ipad1 (it requires later ios), nor will about 6 or 8 apps I tried from iStore offering ereader functionality.

I've learned (too late) to never do a hard reset of everything on ipad. What with its planned obsolescence my ipad1, iCloudless and AppStoreless for now, feels like a Ford Edsel.

My questions (recognise that I can't get access via ipad1 to iCloud/AppsStore for the time being; yes I have full iCloud/AppsStore operability on my PCs, ipad6, ipad3, iphone etc)

1. is there a third party app which can be downloaded via iStore on PC which supports epub for the old ios5 for ipad1?

2. is there any way of downloading old iBooks for ipad1 via my PC and somehow updating into my ipad1

Thanks in anticipation