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This is probably a ***** stupid question but..
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I believe you can do so with Goodreader. It's a pretty flexible app that essentially let's you not only view, but browse/manage the PDFs, files, etc. on your iPad. But I think you can also now sync PDFs through iTunes. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
To exactly answer your question, iBooks has no support for that type of file yet. Its coming in a update soon though.
Oh yes, as of yesterday!
You can dowload it via GoodReader and then use Goodreader's file management to open (move) it to iBooks.
Works great!
Thanks. I remember seeing the g option before but didn't put it to test.
Also, thanks for the other replies as well. Goodreader is certainly handy.
Once you know the URL of the PDF file (which you can copy from your browser), you can open the file directly in GoodReader by pasting the URL into the "Web Downloads" tab. You can even browse to the file using GoodReader's "Browse the Web" function. Then, if you wanted to view the file in iBooks, you could copy the file using GoodReader's "Manage Files" tab.
Just tried the GoodReader method with iLounge's iPad Guide weighing in at 23MB. Slow to open in iBooks but it got there.
Yes. The longer I own the iPad, since 4-3, the more I learn how much I can do with it.
iPad ftw.
I just did the same thing with good reader and it has mucked up my iBooks , the PDF was there but now iBooks opens and there's nothing there and no acces to the store or my library??
Same here - iBooks seemed to freeze a couple of times before I got the pdf to open. I suspect 23MB with a high graphics/images content is a struggle for iBooks.
Agreed. I deleted the iLounge guide and I'm sticking with the beautifully bound iPad User Guide.
