Apr 11, 2011 Downloading free books to your iPad More like this. Browsing the aisles of Apple's iBookstore. Kindle app gets side-loading, background downloading. If you're looking for free books for iPad, here are four useful websites that can help. When I downloaded the ePub version on “Alice in Wonderland”, I got a file. How to Access 30,000 FREE eBooks for the iPad. Gilberto J Perera. Click on the link and scroll to the bottom of the book’s page. Download the EPUB format of the book your viewing. Tap on the free eBook you added – the book should open. For Apple's device, iBook is a great way to download and read books, but we can get more free eBooks from other website. Here provides how to get free books.
How to find free books for your iPad mini from outside iBooks Store Apple supports a technical standard — ePub, the underlying technology behind thousands of free public-domain books. You can import these to the iPad without shopping in the iBooks Store. I downloaded a free self help book to my iPad but it was not very useful and I now want to delete it. After deleting the book still shows with a download icon but for personal reasons I do not want the cover to show at all.
There are a lot of advantages to the iPad as an e-reader, chief among them its capability to be a true multiformat product supporting Kindle, ePubs, PDFs, and others.
One little difficulty remains: finding ways to get free books.
Sure, Apple and others don't exactly want you to stock up on free literature if they can help it, especially in the case of books that aren't public domain. Still, we have to try, don't we? Here are the best (legal) ways not to pay.
- The iBooks Store does have over 30,000 free books, mostly from Project Gutenberg, and many of them with surprisingly decent formatting. There is a trick, though: you'll have to be fastidious. Searching for an author in the iBooks Store will often bring up only for-pay versions of many books, whereas entering their specific titles will brings up free versions, too. It's extremely odd, but we discovered the bug when looking for many titles, including 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse and Thomas Hobbes' 'Leviathan.'
- The Kindle App has free books galore, if you can find them. Amazon offers a large selection of free books in its Kindle store, but you'll need to browse online or check out Amazon's Kindle blog for the most recent freebies. They're downloaded directly via the Kindle app; right now, there's no way to import files from a computer via USB. To help matters, check constantly updated free Kindle book sites such as jungle-search.com (Read how to find free books on your Kindle for more details).
- Import ePub books via iTunes: You can download or convert your own ePub books from any source (including Google's large collection) and import them into Apple's iBooks app, but you'll need to go through iTunes on a computer using iTunes 9.1. Dragging the file in will put the book in your sync queue, but you can't directly drop the book onto your iPad. As for where you get those ePub books from...well, that's your decision.
- For PDFs, use GoodReader. For $.99, GoodReader reads .doc, PDF, HTML, and TXT files, can import docs and PDFs from any Web page or even directly from the Google Docs server, and it also allows wireless drag-and-drop of files from a nearby computer without syncing. A clever trick: visit Google Books on GoodReader and download the 'PDF' link for free books directly into the reader app. Its page-turning system is a little awkward, but it's a great tool to have (and PDFs retain color-coding for those using it for revisions). It's a shame it can't read ePub as well.
- Check other apps: Free Books and Kobo are two other iPad book apps that have their own slightly different supplies of titles. We've found luck getting a free book on one that we couldn't get on another. It's a hassle to swap back and forth, but it might be the only way to get what you're looking for.
Any other tips? Let us know in the comments.
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The big display of iPad, makes them the perfect ebook reader. New iPad users may want to know if there are any websites provide free eBooks for iPad they can download from. Here we recommend Project Gutenberg which provides more than 36,000 free ebooks with different formats for various eBook readers and devices including iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Android phones and tablets.
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How to Download FREE iBooks for iPad from Project Gutenberg?
1. Browse to http://www.gutenberg.org/ on your computer;
2. Select from a wide range of ebooks on Project Gutenberg, absolutely your best choice to get Free eBooks for new iPad 3.
3. Once you open a book on this free eBook downloading site, you will find various versions HTML, EPUB(with images), EPUB(no images), Kindle(with images), Kindle(no images), Plucker, QiOO Mobile, Plan Text, etc.
iPad is compatible with EPUB iBook format, so choose the EPUB versions and download the eBooks to your computer first.
4. Run iTunes on your computer, then add the ebooks that you have just downloaded to your iTunes library.
5. Connect your iPad to computer and sync the free eBook to your new iPad through iTunes.
6. Use iBooks App on iPad to open the transferred free eBook and enjoy the Free eBooks for iPad on the crystal clear screen.
How to add ePub books to iBooks on iPad?
The default eBook reader on new iPad is iBooks App. You can access iBookstore from iBooks App to access and purchase thousands of books online. The iBook App itself is a freeware, you can donwload it from App Store. ePub is the most popular book format in the world. Project Gutenberg, the best free ebook download site, offers most books in ePub format. If you are using an Android devices, like Samsung phones, HTC phones, Motorola phones, Sony, you can refer to this guide to download free ebooks on to Android phones directly. iBooks App support ePub books well. Any ePub books you get on your computer or other source can be transferred to your iPad and you will be able to use iBooks App to read the free eBooks for iPad downloaded from Project Gutenberg.
To transfer ePub books from computer to your iPad through iTunes, just drag the ePub files into your iTunes Library, then sync your new iPad with your computer. The books will appear on your shelf in iBooks right alongside the ones you get through iBookstore. An easier way is to transfer ePub books from computer to iPad through email.
The fastest way to get free eBooks for iPad from Project Gutenberg
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The fastest way to get Project Gutenberg ebooks onto your iOS device is to use the safari for mobile to navigate to http://m.gutenberg.org. Download the EPUB format and then “open in” the preferred application. You can refer to specific instructions here: How to download PDF and books on iPad? The Apple iBookstore also contains most Project Gutenberg ebooks. However the copy you get from iBookstore might not be the latest version sometimes. In such case, you will still need to download Project Gutenberg’s eBook files onto the new iPad using iTunes.
Also if you live outside the U.S. you won’t be able to access the iBookstore via the iBooks app. Thus download eBooks from Gutenberg via iBookstore does not work under such circumstances.
This Free eBooks for iPad downloads guide applies to iPhone/iPod as well.