Comments on: Quickly Transfer .mobi & ePub eBook Files to an iPad for Easier Viewing

By: Keenan

Keenan — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:15:57 +0000

Dragging .mobi into iTunes didn’t work for me. Nor could I find a way to upload on Amazon Kindle manage page. However, the email trick did work. Thanks!

By: Lulu

Lulu — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:36:07 +0000

@Gene, sorry just realised you meant multiple books, not files for each book.

By: Lulu

Lulu — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:33:39 +0000

I was happily reading .mobi files in iBook until iTunes 11, I just went file>add too library and synced.
But, just downloaded 11 (and ios6.2, don’t know if that had an impact) and lost half my books.
Was very relieved to get back the one I was reading using this method, thank you!
@Gene I was confused re there being three attachments for each folder in my book, but just opening the mobi file worked.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:51:53 +0000

Worked like a charm for me!

Just click on the attached icon in your email to yourself, and open it in Kindle.

I hate to say, but it looks way nicer on the ipad screen versus my basic kindle, which I still love for novels. But anything with pictures, forget about it… go ipad or Fire!

By: phoenix

phoenix — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:02:21 +0000

iBooks cannot open .mobi format, sadly. Only .epub and pdf.

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:20:51 +0000

Will it work with multiple attachments on the email?
It only downloaded one attachment when I tried to “open in kindle”. It does ask me if I’d like to open in kindle but then nothing happens. Do you need to send them one attachment at a time?

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:10:24 +0000

This was perfect! Don’t even have to connect my iPad to the computer. Thank you!

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By: Kristop

Kristop — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:59:06 +0000

Just drag your PDFs or ePubs into iTunes directly, just worked for me. I was using Dropbox to transfer my books from iMac to iPad, but I just discovered I can drag my eBooks to iTunes directly.

Hope that helps someone.

By: Burak

Burak — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:51:14 +0000

William, this is for the ‘drm-free’ epubs right?

By: Budges

Budges — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:33:39 +0000

Download in kindle or iBooks and you don’t have to deal with it at all….

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:21:32 +0000

You can sync .mobi directly to the Kindle app through iTunes, if you’re already in iTunes it may be easier than emailing yourself.

Apple needs to bring AirDrop to iOS and neither would be necessary. It’s one of the best features of OS X, why not?