I am a novice and a Windows user. I started downloading docs and putting them in iBooks or PDF app depending upon the nature of the doc. I have now decided to use GoodReader as a standard. I cannot move the docs from iBooks or PDF app to GoodReader - I have docs all over the place. How can I rganise them? Any assistance would be appreciated.
iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 6.1.3
There isn't an easy way, as far as I know, to do it directly on the iPad, as the iBooks app doesn't allow you to transfer PDFs to another app. You could open each PDF individually, email it to yourself via the 'share' icon (the icon of the box with the arrow coming out of it towards the top left), and then use 'open in' in Mail to open it in GoodReader - but if there are a lot of them then that will be time-consuming. Or you copy them to GoodReader via your computer's iTunes via file sharing : http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4094
Even though they aren't iTunes purchases, you should be able to copy them from iBooks over to the Books section of your computer's iTunes library via File > Devices > Transfer Purchases, and you can then find where they are stored on your PC by right-clicking one of them in the Books part of your library and selecting 'show in explorer' on the popup - that will tell you where they are stored so that you can add them to GoodReader via 'file sharing'.
I don't know about the other app, but if you can't copy them directly from that app to GoodReader then you might be able to copy them off the iPad via file sharing, and then add them to GoodReader
Files in iBooks will need to extracted via iTunes (pluged into a computer) and then re-uploaded to GoodReader, or emailed to yourself and opened in GoodReader. This assumes you are talking about non-DRM protected files.
Adobe PDF Reader will allow you to open a file in pretty much any app that can read the file, including GoodReader. You will need to open the file in the Adobe to do this.
For continuous management, GoodReader integrates with a number of cloud services, including DropBox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive, as well as many FTP sites.
It is really frustrating that people like you an me have such questions in the first place, and having been a supporter of Apple for mnany years I am getting lately more and more disappointment about these issues!!
At a first place, there should be at least a basic annotation capability for PDF in IBooks, but that is not the case. For this reason you want to export the pdf to GoodReader to be able to work and instead of beeing obvious you have to waste time doing that to end up finding out there are other people with the same question. I have no words for it....
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