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Originally Posted by Terry Brown
I know how to side load kindle books (kfx format is what I use) to the kindle app on an iPad. Currently, I use iMazing to do this primarily because iMazing connects to devices wirelessly.
But I would like to automate this a bit more. Is there a way to side load kindle books to the iPad kindle app using the macOS command line?
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It's not possible from the command line with a default iPad. Your problem with the iPad is that Apple has isolated the user and root directories from public access. You would need to jailbreak your iPad first, then find the path to the Kindle folder, then copy the files via terminal.
If you had a Kindle device, you would "cp *.kfx /Volumes/Kindle/documents". You'd need to manually mount the device on your desktop first, obviously. If you wanted to automate it, you could create a folder action that monitors /Volumes to execute a script that runs that command for you. You could even unmount the Kindle from the command line in the same script. I'm sure once you jailbreak your iPad, you can do a similar process.
I just jailbroke an old iPad last month and was poking around the root and user directories via terminal before selling it. I didn't have Kindle installed, so I can't tell you the specific paths as I can with a Kindle device, but once you have access to root, that will be an easy matter for you.