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dakins · 12-04-2014, 11:11 AM

Is it possible to use calibre 2.x with iOS 8.1.x to push books to the Kindle app?

Here's my story. At one point in time calibre recognized my iPad Air and I sideloaded all my books over to the Kindle app. That was a while ago and I don't remember if it was on a pre-v2 version of calibre, or if I was on iOS7 at the time, etc. More recently I wanted to try to get better synchronization between my devices so I wanted to try the [EBOK] thing, which I did and got loaded onto my Kindle Paperwhite no problem. When I went to reload all my books onto my iPad though, I ran into issues. I did a whole bunch of searches trying to fix this, but nothing worked.

Here are the things I tried. My question is - is this even possible with iOS 8.1.1, or am I doing something wrong? If it's not possible - how long until it is?

I use a Mac as my main computer. With that I had the latest version of calibre installed. I tried....

installing the latest iOS Reader Applications plugin from here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=342 - that didn't work and failed with a pyqt4 error which I couldn't find a resolution to.
uninstalled that plugin (which I think is 1.4.4.0.1) and installed the version presented in the app (which is 1.4.4) but ended up with the same error
read somewhere in the forums that this wasn't possible in version 2x of calibre, so I uninstalled it and installed v1.48
tried both plugins on 1.48. I don't think I got the same error as above, but when I plugged my device in I wasn't prompted to trust it, and got an error message from calibre saying device not recognized and the plugin gets automatically deleted.

I also have calibre portable installed on a external drive which I plugged into a Windows PC and tried the same plugins as above, both on the latest versions of calibre and on 1.48. The closest I got was on version 1.48 or calibre with version 1.4.4.0.1 of the plugin - I get nothing. The iPad doesn't show up in calibre, but I also don't get an error message - so that's the closest I got.

Any thoughts?

12-04-2014, 11:11 AM	#1
dakins Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: iPad	Problems with IPad Air / iOS 8.1.1 Is it possible to use calibre 2.x with iOS 8.1.x to push books to the Kindle app? Here's my story. At one point in time calibre recognized my iPad Air and I sideloaded all my books over to the Kindle app. That was a while ago and I don't remember if it was on a pre-v2 version of calibre, or if I was on iOS7 at the time, etc. More recently I wanted to try to get better synchronization between my devices so I wanted to try the [EBOK] thing, which I did and got loaded onto my Kindle Paperwhite no problem. When I went to reload all my books onto my iPad though, I ran into issues. I did a whole bunch of searches trying to fix this, but nothing worked. Here are the things I tried. My question is - is this even possible with iOS 8.1.1, or am I doing something wrong? If it's not possible - how long until it is? I use a Mac as my main computer. With that I had the latest version of calibre installed. I tried.... installing the latest iOS Reader Applications plugin from here https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=342 - that didn't work and failed with a pyqt4 error which I couldn't find a resolution to. uninstalled that plugin (which I think is 1.4.4.0.1) and installed the version presented in the app (which is 1.4.4) but ended up with the same error read somewhere in the forums that this wasn't possible in version 2x of calibre, so I uninstalled it and installed v1.48 tried both plugins on 1.48. I don't think I got the same error as above, but when I plugged my device in I wasn't prompted to trust it, and got an error message from calibre saying device not recognized and the plugin gets automatically deleted. I also have calibre portable installed on a external drive which I plugged into a Windows PC and tried the same plugins as above, both on the latest versions of calibre and on 1.48. The closest I got was on version 1.48 or calibre with version 1.4.4.0.1 of the plugin - I get nothing. The iPad doesn't show up in calibre, but I also don't get an error message - so that's the closest I got. Any thoughts?