How to Download and Read eBooks on an iPad Using the iBooks, Kindle or Nook App Que Publishing. The book covers iOS7 for iPad Air, iPad 3rd/4th generation, iPad 2, and iPad mini. In this video I show you how to move Books and PDF's into iBooks on the iPad. I show you how to do this by using just the iPad and by using iTunes to do this as well. I also show you how to move.
Amazon has hundreds of thousands of e-books available to purchase and download. If you have the Kindle app for iOS, you can download and read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPad. Here's how.
App Used In This Guide
- iTunes: Amazon Kindle (Free)
How to buy Kindle books on Amazon
The first step to reading books through the Kindle app for iPhone or iPad is to buy them. The best place to start is Amazon's Kindle e-books page, where you will find more than one million books, magazines, and newspapers to choose from.
- Open Safari or your preferred web browser on your iPhone, iPad, or your computer.
- Navigate to the Kindle e-books page.
If you haven't already, log into your Amazon account:
- Tap the Profile icon in the upper right of the Amazon web page.
Tick the box for Login.
- Enter the email address or phone number associated with your Amazon account.
Tap Continue.
- Enter the password associated with your Amazon account.
Tap Sign in.
- Once signed in, navigate back to the Kindle e-books page and select an e-book you want to purchase.
- Under Deliver to: change the device to Kindle Cloud Reader.
Select Buy now with 1-Click.
You will receive a notice that your selection is waiting for you in your Kindle library. It will be available in the Kindle app immediately.
How to download your Kindle Library books in the Kindle app
After you have purchased at least one e-book and added it to your Kindle library via the Kindle Cloud Reader, it will automatically appear in the Kindle app.
- Launch the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap Library to see all of the e-books in your Amazon library.
Tap the book you wish to download onto your device.
- When it's finished downloading (it will have a checkmark next to it), tap the book to open it.
- Read the About this book section to find out the books' features.
Tap the X in the upper right corner or tap Done to close the About section and start reading your book.
You can download as many e-books as you want on your iPhone and iPad as long as you have enough room on your device to fit it all.
How to search your e-book library in the Kindle app for iPhone and iPad
If you have a large collection of books already built up in your Kindle library, you may need a little help finding the title you are looking for. Luckily, there is a search feature.
- Launch the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap the More icon in the bottom right corner.
- Tap the Search field.
Type a word or phrase associated with the book you are looking for. A list of library results will appear.
Once you've found the book you are looking for, tap it to download it to your device or start reading it if it's already downloaded to your device.
How to remove books from your device in the Kindle app
E-books don't take up a whole lot of space on their own, but once your collection starts to swell it can really add up. Maybe you want to clear out that space, or maybe there's a book you started and had to put down because it was really awful and you just want it out of your face. Either way, you can remove a book from your device when you are done with it.
- Launch the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad.
- Tap Downloaded at the top.
- Touch and hold the title you wish to remove from your device.
When the window pops up, tap Remove from device.
Removing a book from your device will not delete it from your Amazon Cloud Reader book library. You can re-download them on any device at any time.
Alternative readers
If you want to read a digital book from Amazon's vast and inexpensive Kindle library, you don't have to own a Kindle device to do it. You can download them directly to your iPhone or iPad using Amazon's Kindle app. It's got everything you need to read digital books and it's the most important thing you need to get ready for all those Kindle books.
Of course, when it comes to reading e-books, you don't strictly have to use your iPhone. These are our picks for digital devices that are also perfect for reading Kindle e-books.
Kindle Paperwhite($120 at Amazon)
The Kindle Paperwhite is the perfect device for reading e-books. You'll still need your iPhone because it's only an e-reader, but the crisp matte pages are easy on the eyes and it works great outdoors.
Fire 7 Tablet($59.99 on Amazon)
If the iPhone is still a bit too small for you and you'd like a tablet that's more than just an e-reader, the Amazon 7' Kindle Fire is an inexpensive option. It's about the size of your average book, but can be used for a lot more than just reading.
What books to buy?
If you're not sure what books to start with, navigate to the Amazon Charts to see the top 20 most sold & most read books of the week. Or if you simply want to sample and read as many books as possible, check out Kindle Unlimited to download every book imaginable.
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Lory Gil
Lory is a renaissance woman, writing news, reviews, and how-to guides for iMore. She also fancies herself a bit of a rock star in her town and spends too much time reading comic books.  If she's not typing away at her keyboard, you can probably find her at Disneyland or watching Star Wars (or both).
My brother’s a writer and keeps sending me his books and novellas to read. They’re PDFs and I hate staring at the computer for such a long time. Can I read them in the Kindle app on my iPad instead?
You sure can, though the experience isn’t quite as good as when you have a proper epub format Kindle book because functions like the ability to resize the text or change the width of the margins vanishes, but assuming that he’s formatting the document in a reasonable format prior to converting it into a PDF, yes, you can download it to your iPad, iPad Mini or iPad Air and read it in the Kindle app just like all your other ebooks.
How To Download Books On Ipad Air Plus
The trick is figuring out how.
As with so much related to the iTunes program, working with apps that can have their own file store on your iOS device is not particularly intuitive…
To start, plug your iPad into your Mac system (on a PC the process is the same, but the screen shots would be different, of course) and make sure you know where your brother’s latest PDF manuscript is located too. Go to the Apps tab in iTunes:
Here’s the big secret: scroll down. Down below all the app icon layout content.
Below that there’s a whole ‘nother section:
Well, that’s interesting!
As you can see, on the left are shown Apps that have file sharing capabilities, while on the right you can see the files or documents associated with that particular application. In this case, it’s the Kindle App for the iPad and there are no current docs.
To add one, click on “Add…” and choose the PDF file in question. Now it’ll look like this:
I’m poised to read a pre-publication edition of Ted Galdi’s “Elixir”, but the idea’s the same.
All ready? No additional PDFs or epubs you want to put on the iPad? Then click “Apply”.
It’ll take 15+ seconds to sync and copy, but once it’s done, go into the Kindle app on the iPad itself and…
Nothing. No new PDF.
What the deuce? Turns out that the Kindle app can sometimes take a few seconds to notice that there’s a new file available. I usually tap on the “Device” tab on the bottom and it then shows up, along with hiding books that aren’t actually downloaded onto my iPad itself:
Hey, there it is on the top left, even tagged as “New”.
Tap on it to read the PDF…
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Flip and you can get to a page that has actual text, at which point you realize that if the original PDF was designed well (e.g. with reasonably big type) it’ll work fine, but if it was poorly laid out, it’s potentially going to be fatiguing to read on the iPad screen:
Still, quite readable, especially when you rotate it to the more typical vertical orientation of a book.
Hope that helps you out, good luck with your brother’s books. I hope he’s a good writer!