Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

Tagged: ebooks, ipad, kindle fire., pdf

This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 6 months ago by godselect37.

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June 13, 2013 at 8:05 pm
amama5
Participant
I am wanting to get ebooks of The Stuff They Left Behind and Visits to Africa, but am wanting to make sure those will work on my iPad before purchasing.
Will they also work on a Kindle Fire? Thanks!
June 13, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Jordan Smith
Keymaster
Our PDF books do work on an iPad or Kindle Fire, but because both of those devices scale a PDF file to fit the screen, we recommend trying the free samples first. That way, you can see if the text will be too small to read. It tends to work well with the smaller books, but can be harder to read with 8.5 x 11″ books like Visits to Africa.
June 13, 2013 at 8:47 pm
amama5
Participant
Thanks! And I also hadn’t thought about printing off pages from it, like map drills, I suppose I could just email the page to myself then print it? Thanks again
June 13, 2013 at 8:54 pm
Doug Smith
Keymaster
You can also print from an iPad. You need to have an AirPrint compatible printer or install FingerPrint on a computer to receive print requests and pass them on to your printer.
June 14, 2013 at 12:12 pm
amama5
Participant
Thanks so much, everything from Visits to Africa looks fine on the iPad and I can zoom in if it’s too small. I also got the free trial of FingerPrint and it worked great, but now have to decided to buy it or not:) Thanks again
June 14, 2013 at 2:12 pm
godselect37
Participant
Do you guys have any tips on syncing your ipad books to your itunes account? I can view them fine on my ipad, but have to download to each device instead of it all being there on the account.
June 14, 2013 at 4:33 pm
Doug Smith
Keymaster
There are a couple ways. First, be sure to go to the Settings app on your iOS devices, scroll down to iBooks, and turn on Sync Collections.
1. If you use iCloud Backup and have all of the devices on the same account then they should sync.
2. If you set up iTunes Wi-Fi Sync for each device then it should sync your books whenever iTunes is running on the master computer and you plug your devices in to charge (or manually tell them to sync).
June 14, 2013 at 4:55 pm
godselect37
Participant
That worked perfect. I didn’t have one of the devices syncing over wifi, once I corrected that we were good. Thanks!!