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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can only assume it comes from never having used an iPad. As you say, it's completely erroneous.
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I owned an ipad (2017) with 128 gig memory. The ipad is a closed system the is sandboxed. Got rid of the ipad in less than 6 months because of I found ios was unusable for me & I just wanted to use the "best tablet" (according to reviewers) for reading & manage the files on the ipad. I do not use a cloud for storing books nor anything else "except" for the auto "backups" by the tablet.
The ipad "files" is only for managing files on the cloud; was not able to use the ios file management. Bought the "files ex" & was much able to use for real file management on the ipad. Downloaded the ios 11 manual from apple & read part of it; moved the epub book to a directory created with 'file ex' for books; ios claims the file is an "unrecognizable format" & will not let me read it with either the native reader or fbr or marvin. Moved the ios 11 manual back to where it was downloaded from apple, the book is now has a format recognizable & was able to read the ios 11 manual.
Loaded Calibre Companion onto the ipad. Found that selecting a book to read, CC for ios has to send a copy to whatever reader I want to use for reading; duplicating the books. ios does not allow just sending the path to the reader for the location of the book. Unfortunately, CC for android will be required to do the same by Google Play store before any more updates to CC can be made available on Play Store.
I didn't do programming on the ipad; just trying to read books is enough of a very bad experience. ios is totally unflexible & wants to have everything on the icloud (a big money maker for apple). The ipad is more like using a terminal connected to a mainframe (icloud).