How to transfer .pdfs in Kindle app from old iPad to new iPad?

[LSlovak]

Hello! I recently replaced my old iPad 2 with a new iPad Air. When my data was transferred from my iCloud backup, all my .pdfs on my old iPad didn't transfer. How can I get them to the new iPad/Kindle app? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[flaubert]

Well, hopefully you still have the iPad Air, or you have a computer with iTunes that has the PDFs in question - I am not aware of any way to share files iPad to iPad directly, or out of the Kindle app to iCloud and then back to the new Kindle, for instance (unless of course it is Amazon-supplied content, in which case it should sync to the new iPad as soon as enter Amazon credentials). Regardless, I think that iTunes is going to be your friend here. The trick is dealing with iTunes 12.7, which makes dealing with non-Music content more tricky that it used to be.

Step one is to get the PDFs off your old iPad, if that is the only place they exist currently. Once you have the files on your Mac then you can open iTunes, plug in your new iPad, select File Sharing from the left sidebar, select Kindle as the app, and then drag and drop the PDF files into the file list window. Here is Apple's article on how to transfer files in the current version of iTunes:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201301

Note that you might be doing this as two steps: first old iPad to Mac, and then Mac to new iPad.