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Hey guys, my apologies if this has been posted/answered before, but I ran several different searches and couldn't seem to find it so I figured I'd ask and if someone tells me the answer is located in XXXXX spot then I'll delete this.

I have an Amazon Kindle 10thGen (What they called the "all new" kindle a couple of years ago.). While I like it, I've found lately that I'm doing more and more reading on my iPad due to travel. (I am military and my branch spends a lot of time traveling via water where there is no internet connection.) With a few games and some movies and the like, my iPad is a more versatile entertainment platform than my Kindle, so I've been defaulting to that when I want to travel light.

I am highly resistant to the idea of ever plugging my iPad into my PC. For years this was because iTunes was to computers what hemorrhagic dysentery is to restaurants: You might live through it but you won't enjoy the experience. However, I have no problems plugging in the old Kindle and using Calibre to load it up. (Although the terrible default eBook organization of the Kindle makes that a short, sharp shower of sh*t most of the time as well. Seriously, Amazon developed a way to carry 1400 books in your pocket and figured "a huge pile" was the best way to lay them out?!)

I'd really like to use Calibre to manage the Kindle app on my iPad, preferably by plugging it in with the standard USB/lightning wire cable and sideloading books from PC that way. Is this possible? I am not impressed with Calibre Companion and would rather not purchase it until it has a developer that cares about it. Does anyone have suggestions or sources for ways I can do this?

I'd also like to share some of my eBooks with my wife. Amazon, in their blistered stupidity, has made it possible to share eBooks with family members only by also sharing your wallet... because when you give your cousin Larry a copy of The Idiot's Guide to Idioting, you always give him your American Express too, right? It would be easier to just hand her a copy of my Calibre library (or give her access to the Dropbox folder where it resides) and let her load what she wants from there.

Keep in mind that I am not against using other eBook readers on the iPad, but since several of the series I'm reading now are direct Amazon purchases, it's a little easier to keep them all in one reading app, and as far as reading itself goes, the Kindle app of iOs is actually pretty good for me. (Although I miss Moon+ on the Android.)

So, if anyone can point me to some ideas for making this work, I'd appreciate it. Thanks to everyone for suggestions and comments and special thanks to Kovid for such an amazing program that has truly changed my life.