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Terry Brown · 05-27-2020, 01:26 PM

Thanks for the response. I am not interested in jailbreaking the iPad since I use it for many things and don't want the potential hassles.

The fact that iMazing is able to do this, even wirelessly, indicates to me that the iPad is not locked down completely since they copy files directly to standard iOS devices that are not jailbroken. However, iMazing does have the limitation that they prompt for the application that you want to receive the file you are copying--they have no way to know, without user interaction, if the ePub, for example is to be sent to iBooks or to Marvin. It is interesting to me that no one seems to know how this works--I have tried a number of forums with no results.

I have played with using Keyboard Maestro to automate the iMazing procedure, but automating the mouse movements required to drag and drop is flakey at best. Part of the reason I want to automate things a bit more is that I have to do the procedure twice, once for my iPad, once for my iPhone since I read on both devices.

I use kfx file format instead of mobi because I can build the kfx file from Calibre and get support for Kindle's page flip, which I love and is the one of the main reasons I choose to use the Kindle app for my reading. I consider page flip to be the only seriously creative feature for book reading apps I have seen in years.

Kindle also does a good job of supported highlights across columns and even pages, and I like the way I can export my notes and get a reasonably formatted output.

05-27-2020, 01:26 PM	#8
Terry Brown Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Portland, OR Device: M1 Max Mac Studio, iPad Pro 2018 12.9, iPhone 7	Thanks for the response. I am not interested in jailbreaking the iPad since I use it for many things and don't want the potential hassles. The fact that iMazing is able to do this, even wirelessly, indicates to me that the iPad is not locked down completely since they copy files directly to standard iOS devices that are not jailbroken. However, iMazing does have the limitation that they prompt for the application that you want to receive the file you are copying--they have no way to know, without user interaction, if the ePub, for example is to be sent to iBooks or to Marvin. It is interesting to me that no one seems to know how this works--I have tried a number of forums with no results. I have played with using Keyboard Maestro to automate the iMazing procedure, but automating the mouse movements required to drag and drop is flakey at best. Part of the reason I want to automate things a bit more is that I have to do the procedure twice, once for my iPad, once for my iPhone since I read on both devices. I use kfx file format instead of mobi because I can build the kfx file from Calibre and get support for Kindle's page flip, which I love and is the one of the main reasons I choose to use the Kindle app for my reading. I consider page flip to be the only seriously creative feature for book reading apps I have seen in years. Kindle also does a good job of supported highlights across columns and even pages, and I like the way I can export my notes and get a reasonably formatted output.