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How to convert PDF files to ePub files to read on your iPad with. This tutorial will guide you through the process of converting PDF files so that they can be read in iBooks, the iPad application. Update: you can now read PDF files directly in iBooks, without having to convert them to .epub or any other format. See this tutorial for a quick overview of how to add PDF files to iBooks to read on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. This tutorial will remain up just in case someone wants to create an .epub of their PDF. iBooks uses an ebook format called ePub. Start out by finding a PDF you want to convert.

Click to enlarge Select the folder you want to save all of your ePub files in. Back at the Welcome screen, click the Continue button. Select Apple from the Manufacturers list, and iPhone/iTouch + Stanza from the Devices list. You can ignore the information on this screen and click Continue. Now you’re at the main calibre interface. Navigate to a PDF file that you want to convert to an .epub file. Now we’ll start the actual conversion process. The Complete List of iPad Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials - How-To G. The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet, and to help you get the most out of it, we’ve put together a comprehensive list of every tip, trick, and tutorial for you.

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Powered by NewspaperDirect, it provides access to a whopping 1,700 newspapers from 92 countries in 48 languages. You can buy papers one at a time or choose from a subscription option. After debuting on the iPhone last year, the newly updated PressReader app makes good use of the iPad's comparatively spacious screen. As you can see, it's like looking at a scan of the actual front page (which is exactly what it is). You can also have a story read to you by tapping the headphones icon. Epicurious - Top 20 free iPad apps (photos) PressReader on the iPad: Amazing! | Shanghaied Weblog. Today I checked out the new PressReader app on the iPad, and I was totally sold on it!

It is so cool, this app *might* be the future of media and just having this app justifies buying an iPad for me. Downloading on the iPad goes very fast PressReader is a website with an app that lets you read 1500 newspapers and magazines worldwide on your computer, your iPhone or your iPad. You pay USD 0.99 per newspaper, or you can have a 1-month subscription for USD 9.99 that allows you to download 31 newspapers (you can download whatever your want, so you’re not stuck with a subscription to just one newspaper, you can download a different newspaper every day if you’d like or download several ones on one day), or a USD 29.99 one-month unlimited download.

Compare this price to what you pay for printed newspapers! Overview of all sections of newspaper How does it work? Click on title for one column view Downloading is quick and easy, within a minute you have the paper you want on your iPad. How the iPad Might Bring Us Back to Our Print Roots | Fast Compa. I'm going to admit that I'm excited about the iPad. And from the buzz it seems I might be alone on this one.

I'm seeing comments that range from, "That's it? " to "This is an iPhone with a larger screen. " Adding to the thoughtful sentiments are calls for the heads of AT&T executives for their sub par network service. I've got my pitchfork and torch in hand and am ready for the AT&T witchhunt, but I'm putting them down to use an iPad first. My excitement doesn't brew from iPad's functionality out-of-the-box but from its potential in changing how we design dense information Web sites. Sports Illustrated's pre-Pad effort I've seen it all, from demands to provide printable PDFs of publications as downloadable links (nobody cared that the publication scaled down to print on an 8 1/2 x 11 with an amazingly legible font size of -1), to calls to make "pages turn.

" So print designers started to learn differences in Web design and suddenly we started to see a new breed of designer. Will Magazine Design Flourish or Fizzle on the iPad? | Fast Comp. Last week a parody of Dwell magazine made the viral rounds. Unhappy Hipsters consists of photos drawn from the magazine, each showing cool young homeowners looking forlorn in their expensive interiors. Tagline: “It’s lonely in the modern world.” I suspect a magazine has jumped the shark when it invites parody, but that’s a topic for another day. What interests me most about Unhappy Hipsters is its timing: it went viral just as Apple unveiled the iPad, practically to the hour. Even before the iPad launched, David Carr, the media columnist for The New York Times, called it the last, best hope for publishing. The New York Times anticipated this question three years ago when it created The Times Reader, software that allows one to download a digital version of the newspaper and read it on anything from a 3-square-inch portable device to a wall-mounted plasma screen.

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