iPad, eBooks and Insanity

[Winebum]

I'm ready to chuck this $@&$! iPad out the window and allow the dog to water it heavily. It's bad enough that Apple does things in such a roundabout, awkward way, but the damned software is sooo picky about ebooks that I'm wasting as much time trying to get them to load as it does to read the thing! [sigh] Now that I've properly vented my spleen, here is the problem...

Trying to upload DRM-stripped epub’s from my Win-10 PC to an iPad, Gen 2 (v8.4.1). I can get the iTunes library (v12.1.2.27) to accept the epub. I can even get the epub in the queue for syncing. But when I sync the iPad, the ebook shows up *briefly* in the ibooks section of the iPad, then disappears. During subsequent sync ops, it sort of looks like iTunes doesn’t even attempt to load the ebooks. PDF files upload fine.

If there is a wink-wink-nudge-nudge, secret handshake, live chicken sacrifice sort of thing I need to do, Apple hasn’t made it clear. A number of Apple revisions back, I used to be able to simply drag-and-drop the ebook; not go through these weird alien gyrations. [sigh] Any ideas?

Cheers,
Jeff

[DJ OD]

Try using the Nook app for ePub.

Are you sure you are not a woman? You do a lot of whinging...


DJ OD

[Winebum]

...Are you sure you are not a woman? You do a lot of whinging...

Woman? No. Perfectionist? Yes. Drives 'she who must be obeyed' nuts.
Cheers,
Jeff

[Doctor Who]

have you also tried using calibre too ?

[TJB]

I use the kindle app. Connect your Ipad to itunes and then select apps. Select Kindle and drag your books over. Looks like this

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Just drag your books across then select add.

[Winebum]

have you also tried using calibre too ?

Yes. I import ebooks into Calibre, using a plugin to strip the DRM. Once in Calibre, I convert the format to epub. Calibre reports the epub in the iPad memory but cannot access it. Perhaps the epub conversion is faulty?
Cheers,
Jeff

[Winebum]

RESOLVED - For some reason, the DeDRM plugin for Calibre had an issue. I simply disabled the existing one, looked for an update (there wasn't any newer), and re-enabled. Repeated the ebook import into Calibre and conversion to epub, and the file loaded into the iPad. Go figure. Thanks to all for the moral support and idea seeds.
Cheers,
Jeff