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How To: Read PDFs in Apple's iBooks with a little help from Dropbox

by Jay Hathaway on June 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM

I jumped for joy when I saw a post at Lifehacker explaining how to read PDFs on your iPhone or iPad using Apple's new iBooks app. I figured someone would come up with a way to do it, and I should have known it would rely on the ultra-useful Dropbox. Dropbox is an amazing cloud storage app that works on several platforms, and one of them happens to be iOS, making it possible to transfer PDF files to your mobile device.

Once you've got the files uploaded to Dropbox, though, how do you get them into iBooks? Just find the PDF in Dropbox on your phone, hit "Open With" and choose iBooks. It's easy as pie, and your PDF files will automatically sync through Dropbox, too. You don't even have to bother plugging in your device or using iTunes. Brilliant!

Tags: apple, books, dropbox, howtos, ibooks, ipad, iphone, pdf

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SultanJun 23rd 2010 1:32PM

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I'm using Itunes to do that
from preferences check books
after that go to library and make import for the PDF file
then Sync.

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BruceJun 23rd 2010 1:51PM

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Actually, this only works on the iPad. There's no "Open in..." on the iPhone.

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BenAug 21st 2010 10:20PM

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This works exactly as described on my iPhone with iOS 4 and the current version of dropbox. It is a useful feature of dropbox. But you don't need it. All you have to do is drop your PDF onto your iTunes library then sync your device. Then your PDF will show up in the PDFs tab in iBooks

You can also click Open in iBooks in safari when viewing a PDF off the web.

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