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How to read O'Reilly ebooks on the iPad that aren't from the iBooks store
Are you looking for a way to get the O'Reilly ebooks you currently own in ePub format on to your iPad? Follow these three easy steps and you'll be reading your favorite titles with iBooks in no time.
1. Download the ePub version of the book directly onto your computer. 2. Using iTunes 9.1 or later, add the books to your iTunes library. They should automatically go into the "Books" folder. 3. Sync your iPad. They will show up in the iBooks app. Note: If you don't see a Books folder in iTunes you may have to open up iTunes Prefs and enable Books.  Related Posts How To Read O’Reilly eBooks on the iPad How to quickly add your O'Reilly eBooks to iTunes/iBooks 51 Replies
In addition to the Apple provided iBooks reader application there are other reading Apps for the iPad. One of my favorites is Ibis Reader which is a web based and HTML5 ebook reader. To start reading O'Reilly books on the iPad you can go to http://oreilly.com/e login, and select a book to read. Then simply tap on the "Read in ibis reader" link and you'll be sent to the Ibis Reader web app. You can read your book online on the normal browsing interface, or go to http://m.ibisreader.com to install the HTML5 Local Storage version so you can read your books offline.
BTSculptor
: Apr 21 2010 06:28 AM
It would be nice if all of the O'Reilly books were available in ePub. As it stands, several are only available in PDF and do not read well on iPad in any app I've tried
symbiat
: Apr 24 2010 10:11 AM
@BTSculptor:
Actually, many O'Reilly books are available as ePubs if you buy the ebook.
Sean Doyle
: Apr 28 2010 04:36 AM
This looks pretty much perfect.
One problem I've noticed with O'Reilly books in both the iPad Kindle app and in iBooks is that it's very hard to determine what chapter you're in. I often orient myself by going back to the table of contents to find something - but 'going back' is hard in both readers. If there was something in the page header which indicated more context that would be helpful. Better yet would be something that worked like a stack - when I use a paper technical book I often put my finger where I am as a temporary bookmark and then find something else via the TOC or index.. when I'm done I return to where my finger is (and if where I end up is more useful - I remove my finger from the book. No - I haven't filed a patent for this yet...). But - it's wonderfully usable in its current state. Thanks.
pieterkirsten
: Apr 28 2010 09:53 PM
For the PDF only books I have been using Amazon convert (...@free.kindle.com) service to convert from PDF to AZW format. Then I am at least able to read it in a decent format on my Kindle application.
gwaldo@gmail.com
: May 05 2010 05:14 AM
Thank you for the ePub Tip!
Regarding a PDF reader for iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad <shameless_plug> gogoDocs is a Google Docs Reader (separate iPhone and iPad apps) that a friend of mine started in order to solve the problem of being able to take his Google Documents with him even when he doesn't have signal. <insert comment about AT&T in NYC here...> In gogoDocs, once you sign into your Google Docs account, you select which documents you would like to cache to your phone, and they are downloaded in the background. Likewise, when signal is restored and a document is found to be updated, it will download the update in the background. While he was working on this, he noticed that the PDF renderer included in Cocoa Touch (I think it's from UIWebView, but I can't check right now) is fairly bad, so he rolled his own! In his renderer he has fixed the crashing and poor scrolling that plague most (including the Apple-provided) PDF renderers. Two final features that I love are the Last Viewed Position bookmark and the Fast-Scrolling Bar. After returning to a document that you navigate away or close gogoDocs, a ribbon floats on the window showing the relative position of your Last Viewing Position. Clicking on this will return you to the page that you were last on. This disappears after a couple of seconds, but can be invoked by a button on the toolbar. Finally, there is a grabbable scrollbar similar to any desktop application when the content exceeds the viewable windows' size. (If you haven't noticed, iPhone 'scrollbars' only show relative position and size, but can't be dragged.) I apologize for the shameless plug, but I really do love this app. It has become my favorite way to consume PDFs. (Disclosure: I worked on it, but don't make any money from it's sale.) </shameless_plug>
Cassiopee
: Jun 03 2010 05:51 PM
I just bought "FileMaker Pro 11" in ebook format.
It offers only "pdf" format for the moment, no ePub format. So iTunes doesn't accept only-pdf file in its library :-( I tried the Good Reader app for iPad. It's great. It's not as efficient as a real ePub book (you know the page turning fx, the browsing with indexes, etc.) but it's workable. I prefer that than having to fight with the paper book to keep it open when I try to make the exercices on my laptop :-)))
Keith turnbull
: Jul 07 2010 10:00 AM
Got as far as downloading and then transferring the ePub to iTunes books on my iMac. Can see it and my other regular books from Mac iTunes OK. However the ebook doesnt sync across to the iPad/iBooks- any clues ? running iTunes 9.2 ...
andrewsavikas
: Jul 07 2010 02:08 PM
@Keith turnbull -- You may need to confirm you've told iTunes to sync Books from your computer to your iPad. Connect your iPad and then check out the "Books" tab (see attached screenshot).
HTH, Andrew Attached thumbnail(s)
Keith turnbull
: Jul 09 2010 02:53 AM
@andrewsavikas - A MobileMe 'ad' window fooled me as it was hiding the iPad settings window you showed in your post - had to move on past that - then the settings were apparently correct but not working so I had to specifically nudge it to sync the e-pub book via 'selected books' but now all synced.
Thanks for taking the time !!
OneShotTC
: Jul 28 2010 11:09 AM
Well, so far downloading the eBooks and reading them on the iPad works perfectly. I've tried both ePub (iBooks) and PDFs (GoodReader) and it wors well.
The only exception to this is the eBook "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML". While I can read it perfectly on the Adobe Reader on my PC it won't display any pictures in the reader(s) on the iPad. I tried - Good Reader - iBooks - PDF Reader - Documents to Go Always the same problem. Same goes for downloading it multiple times from different computers. As I said, all the other 11 eBooks from O'Reilly I bought work well - just not that one. Anybody got an idea for a solution?
For Sean
All of the iPad book readers have a bookmark solution. In Kindle, tap the upper right corner to get a bookmark (or clear one). To go to a previous bookmark, tap the bottom edge and then tap the open book icon. Select My Notes & Marks and select the bookmark. In iBooks, tap the upper right corner bookmark icon to set or clear a bookmark. To go to a bookmarked page, tap the bullet list icon on the upper left then the bookmarks tab. Select the bookmark. In GoodReader, tap the open book icon on the bottom edge then select bookmarks on the bottom edge of the pop-up window. Select Add Bookmark to add one. You can even name the bookmark or leave the default page reference. To remove a bookmark is a little bit cumbersome - once in the pop-up window, select edit. Select the - sign next to the bookmark to be deleted and then confirm the delete. Hope this helps. If nothing else, keeps your finger from getting paper cuts. 
I have recently purchased Programming Perl (The Camel book) 4th edition as an Epub ebook. I am trying to read it with the iBook reader in an iPad, but I find some serious deficiencies for reading a technical book this way. I will list these drawbacks in order of importance as specifications for an O'Reilly book reader, which would benefit from features I want to suggest here.
1) The Camel book is so long, that it takes 5 to 10 minutes to search the whole of it for a phrase. Even then the results are often not very meaningful. There is no way to start searching at a particular spot, like the Index at the back. I soon gave up on searches. So firstly a localized search is needed. 2) More importantly what is needed is a separate menu point to search only the Index for particular words or symbols. These should only find the Index entries, from where one can navigate to the text pointed to. It would also be important to resume the Index search where one left off. This would involve flicking backwards and forwards from text to Index and back, just as one does when studying the typical O'Reilly technical paper book. 3) The format displayed on iBook is two columns in landscape mode and one column in portrait mode. Even in portrait mode, where you get longer lines, the formatting of program snippets just does not fit across the page and long lines (usually important comments) finish up on the left hand side, making the whole view of the program snippets ugly and untidy, which detracts badly for me from understanding what they are about. You are for ever having to skip over the tail end of a comment on every second line. This makes it very hard to skim such example code with the left side of the brain (or is it the right) to take it in on the fly. The situation is worse in landscape mode with its two narrow columns. The solution would be to have an option to have one wide column in landscape mode. By and large I find it more relaxing to hold and stand up the iPad in landscape mode anyway. To summarise: A good O'Reilly book technical ebook reader should have the ability to specifically search the Index and the ability to display wide lines in one column in landscape mode. If anyone knows of a reader which approaches these specs, pls let me know. I would be interested in participating in an open source project to produce such a reader. If anyone has ideas to share or to join me in such a project, pls let me know. JohnEb.
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From your iOS device, log in to your account on the Take Control Web site (the login option is near the upper right of the home page or try the special login page). If you are not on the Take Control Library page, tap your name near the upper right. From the Library tab, tap the PDF icon to view an eBook in PDF form in the Web browser app.
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I think that right now the selection of books in the IBook store is a bit limited. I know they are adding books regularly, but based on some of the info I read, they don't have a huge amount to choose from. The books that are read using the IBooks app are in the EPub format. You can convert books into this format by taking a PDF file of the book, uploading it to epubtogo.com to be converted, and then downloading the new file on your computer. Once you do this, go to Itunes, add to library, click on the Epub file, and it will be added to the books section of your Itunes library.
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