Hi All.
I recently purchased a ebook on my ipad and wanted to read it on my macbook. So i did a search (probably the same kind of search you all did) and found this thread. I'll admit, i only gave a look thru the first 2 pages of responses so i'm not exactly sure if we're all suffering from the same problem--but here is my situation and what i came up with. Perhaps this will help a few of us:
I wanted to be able to read the book i purchased from ibooks on my computer(s) at home/ work. I have a macpro at home and a macbook i bring to work. Both are authorized computers according to Itunes.
so what I did was log into itunes and clicked on the itunes store. On the right column, there is a list of option links (Power Search, Browse, Account, etc...). And somewhere there was an option titled "Purchased (NEW)."
I clicked that. It brought me to a section that had all my purchases thru the itunes store in the 4 major categories of Music TV shows Apps and Books. I clicked on the books section, located the book i wanted to read and i downloaded it (clicked the lil cloud icon with an arrow on it) onto my macbook pro. Once you download that book, it will appear in your itunes under the appropriate category (since it was an ebook i downloaded, it was in the BOOKS section of my library.). If you click on the BOOKS section and highlight the book you want to read, you can right click and "Reveal in Finder." That shows you where itunes saves the ebooks it syncs (and it is seemingly using the path of: Music -> Itune-> Itunes Music -> Books -> "authors name" -> "Book title."). So this processed helped me find where the ebooks are stored after you sync them (or after you redownload them). But how can i view it?
The ebooks are in an epub file format and you can use Adoble digital editions software to read that format.
I'll admit their interface isn't as visually appealing when compared to reading on the ipad--but i haven't experienced any problems viewing that ebook yet.
Hope this helps somewhat!
-Migsy
