How do I upload all the books stored in iBooks to my google docs account?

How do I upload all the books stored in iBooks to my google docs account?

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Posted on Jan 18, 2013 8:50 AM

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Jan 18, 2013 9:36 AM in response to Cwildbore

You can't. Google Docs is not a file storage system, it's an online suite of productivity applications. If you mean Google Drive, you'd have to download the iBooks to your computer and then upload the files yourself manually. You can't use the iBooks in any other application or service, though, so copying them to Google Drive would only be useful for backup purposes.


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Jan 18, 2013 11:37 AM in response to Cwildbore

I did indeed answer your question. You cannot export books out of iBooks on your iPad to a third-party service. You will have to do this from your computer.


And again, no, Google Docs is not storage. You're apparently confusing Google Docs:


https://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=143206&topic=21008&r d=1


with Google Drive.


https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/drive/start/index.html


unless Google themselves do not know their own services or leave major features out of their description of Google Docs.


Regards.

Jan 18, 2013 11:35 AM in response to Cwildbore

You can find the location of any file in your iTunes library by right-clicking on it and then using Show in Windows Explorer. iBooks that have been downloaded to your library will be stored at <Media Folder>\Books\<Author>. You can then copy these to any location of your choice using Windows Explorer, or the upload tools provided with your cloud service of choice.


As given, for iBooks purchased from iTunes there is unlikely to be any benefit to storing them in another location as you can already redownload directly from the store on demand, and such titles cannot be read except in the iBooks app on an iOS device.


tt2

Jan 18, 2013 12:32 PM in response to turingtest2

Ah, thank you. This comes much closer to answering my question. I haven't bought any books through iBooks, I have just downloaded from all over then web. Most if tne time I download them to a computer and then upload them to to google docs (which I've been doing since the service started). But when on my iPad sometimes I open them in iBooks. Now I have a lot of them there and want to store them elsewhere. And my computer is a very old lap top. Most of my books are in pdf format. Could you give more instructions on how to move them, or even open them in a different app that would give me an export function?

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