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| 1212886 | 2011-06-28 11:12:00 | I have been asked if I want a iPad. Reason being that currently I have several GB's of repair manuals, work site code manuals, company work manuals etc for the various locations that I need to go to. Rather than carry several manuals with me that can be upto 3 or 4 inches thick, I have the whole lot on my work laptop which is 17", a very nice laptop but is on the large size when cramped up in a land cruiser bouncing along outback roads....... What I need to know is, what is a suitable application for basically copy and paste of these manuals from a Win7 PC to a iPad. I have heard about GoodReader but my understanding is that I need GoodReader to be able to view Word and PDF files on the iPad. I would need to be able to transfer multiple and usually large files from the PC to the iPad using the supplied iPad to PC USB link up without having to use iTunes which I believe can only move one file at a time rather than in multiples. Any suggestions. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1212887 | 2011-06-28 11:15:00 | Are all your files in pdf format? iPad has some free pdf readers that you can download. If you have word format manuals than i suggest saving them as pdf would be ideal. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 1212888 | 2011-06-28 11:17:00 | http://iphonebrowser.software.informer.com/ i think that is the version i have. Can be used to drag and drp files onto iphone,ipod and ipad i believe. I dont think you need to be jailbroken to use as well. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1212889 | 2011-06-28 11:22:00 | Are all your files in pdf format? iPad has some free pdf readers that you can download. If you have word format manuals than i suggest saving them as pdf would be ideal. No, 99% of all the files would be mix of PDF and Word. They would be the main one's anyway. |
PinoyKiw (9675) | ||
| 1212890 | 2011-06-28 21:00:00 | PDFs are easily transferred using iTunes you just drag and drop into iTunes on your PC. I have done that with mine and find that it is a lot easier to search and to read them on the iPad. iBooks is already on the iPad and is used to read the PDFs. you would need to convert the word items I think but maybe not. If I find time I will experiment latter in the day and let you know. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1212891 | 2011-06-28 21:01:00 | I use stanza on an iphone which will read ebooks and PDF files. It has the ability to have files copied to it (via itunes - pretty much the only way of getting files to an ipad/iphone) or connecting to a calibre server. You could set up a calibre server at your work, and when in the same wireless network the ipad would be able to see it and download the books. Or there are other apps, fileapp pro comes to mind that will read PDF files, and can offer the ipad as an ftp server and again in the same wireless network you could transmitt the books to the ipad. Personally I'd go the stanza (for reading) and calibre on a pc for hosting books as a much more complete option. Then later if you needed this solution could be opened to the internet via vpn/port forwarding, giving you access to your manuals from anywhere. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1212892 | 2011-06-28 22:44:00 | You might also want a pdf organizer, such as Mendeley (www.mendeley.com), which can be synced to iPad. Reviewed here (www.labnol.org). | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1212893 | 2011-06-28 23:21:00 | Your files need to be either in PDF or ePub format to import into the iPad via iTunes. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1212894 | 2011-06-29 01:02:00 | Thanks all for your input. Will consider my options. What ever road I end up going down, I still have all the code books, repair manuals and the like on my laptop anyway so if the iPad option doesn't work out, not a big deal. Thanks |
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