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Originally Posted by Quoth
If you want to side load on iOS use a real ePub app, not Kindle for iOS or Apple Books formerly iBooks. Same on Android.
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Sure, if you prefer (which you would). It's not something I do much myself, because I buy nearly everything from Amazon and it's already in the Kindle app. I was pointing out that it's possible to do so, and how to do it.
If you are a Mac and iOS person (as I am), the Books app is perfectly adequate and the most convenient thing at hand to read third party ePub on Apple devices.
As I'm currently far more committed to Kindle platform, I read with it only occasionally, but as it is, I don't feel the need to install third party ePub apps that won't sync with anything or whose developer abandons it, or I have to have it in DropBox just to start reading: I can just open it from wherever it is on my Mac (e.g. a calibre folder), and it's instantly available on all of my iDevices, without being crippled as Personal Documents are on Kindle. When I'm done reading, I can just delete it and it goes away on all of my iDevices (and from iCloud storage). You can also add and remove third party content via command line on a Mac. It's seamless.
A bonus is that it's literally the only iOS ePub reading app that properly supports Speak Screen (or for those who need it, VoiceOver and Voice Control). (Kindle is a close second.)
But yes, don't
purchase any books from Apple.
If I still had Android devices (well I do but it's a POS), I'd probably go with Pocketbook app. It does TTS, syncs between devices/platforms, and works with cloud services, OPDS, as well as their own, and complements their worthy eReaders.