With the right software program and some basic design skills, anyone can create an ePub formatted ebook. However, a PDF format book is more difficult to read on mobile devices with small screens because the PDF doesn’t scale easily for viewing at different sizes.ĮPub is short for electronic publication and is an open standard format. The PDF format is ideal for printing and for viewing on your computer monitor. The placement of text, images and other items on the page is static. A PDF file is an electronic copy of the printed book. On the Mac, you can simply print to PDF from virtually any program to save a PDF version of the file. Many programs and apps can output PDF files and nearly every computer and mobile device can display PDF files. The PDF format was created by Adobe and is now a universal standard for document exchange on the web. PDF is short for Portable Document Format. You could also use Wi-Fi sync to accomplish this transfer without a cable. The method I’ve outlined below uses the basic sync process to transfer the files from your computer to your iPad.
I’ll address moving these files from your computer to your iPad and getting them directly on your iPad.
So I decided to take some time today to discuss the PDF and ePub formats and how to get these files onto your iPad. I’ve received several questions lately about how to open my eBook guide to the iPad or which version of the eBook (PDF or ePub) to order.