i have a large number of PDFs documents stored on a windows pc that I would like to access on my iPad mini even when not connected to a network. Does anyone know a solution. Eg maybe card reader and a app.
iPad Air, iOS 8.1.3
Hook the iPad to iTunes and copy the files to your PDF reader app on iTunes. Do a Google search on the exact procedure.
Or get a Dropbox account, copy the files to Dropbox, and then use the Dropbox app to save the files on the iPad.
Or email the documents to yourself and then get the email on the iPad.
Thank you for your reply. . Is there anyway to do this via a card reader as I have a lot of material.
thanks :-)
No, there is no way to do this with a card reader that I am aware. To the best of my knowledge the devices do not support a card reader. Using iTunes does not take a lot of time as you can select multiple files at a time.
You need to use a camera memory card for storage.
There are camera flash to usb dongles. Write on PC.
There is an app to let you read and write to the flash drive from your ios device.
You need to be experimental with this. Should work from reading the doc. You mpg may vary.
There are more of these coming on the market. See:
USB i-Flash Drive TF Micro SD Memory Card Reader for iPad Air iPhone 5 5S 6 Plus
You need to use a camera memory card for storage.
Those devices have mixed results depending on the application. If the application does not support the device, then you are out of luck. There is no file manager in IOS to allow you to move files between folders because there are no folders that you can access. An app has to specifically support a storage location to access files.
Why go to the trouble of copying the files to a card that camera supports, get the USB cable to connect to the camera, then hope? Just use iTunes. Connect the device to iTunes, click on the IOS device, click on Apps, scroll down on the iTunes main screen, where file sharing shows up, select the App, and then select Add File. You can transfer as many files as will fit in memory. Works every time, 100% of the time, and is free.In particular the Adobe Reader App supports this type of file transfer.
I use the built in PDF reader all the time and it does a good job with PDF magazines, I just drop files on to iTunes iBOOKS, 100% success every time, then on iPad open iBooks select PDF in Library, zooming work great.
Those devices have mixed results depending on the application. If the application does not support the device, then you are out of luck. There is no file manager in IOS to allow you to move files between folders because there are no folders that you can access. An app has to specifically support a storage location to access files.
It's not that bad. The app has to have the ability to accept data from another app. The latest memory dongles come with an ios app to access the external storage. You then transfer the pdf from dongle's app to your app. If your app can accept data from dropbox, it will be able to accept data from the memory dongle app.
Other solutions:
== "GoodReaderUSB is a practical and useful application whose main purpose is to help users transfer files and folders from their mobile device to PC effortlessly. It helps them to move and backup important data from their Apple device via a USB cable."
http://www.softpedia.com/get/IPOD-TOOLS/Multimedia-IPOD-tools/GoodReaderUSB.shtm l
== "iExplorer's disk mounting features allow you to use your iPhone, iPod or iPad like a USB flash drive."
http://www.macroplant.com/iexplorer/
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