Load your files: Run Calibre, click Add Books, navigate to the zipped folder you just created, select all your new epub files then click Open.Ĭonvert them to Mobi: In the main Calibre window select all the books you just loaded, click Convert, click Ok. During installation select the kind of Kindle you own. Step 4: Use Calibre to convert the epubs to mobisĭownload and install Calibre. Zip each epub folder into a file (following works in bash) for f in * do zip -r zipped/$f $f done In Terminal go to the iBooks folder and create a new folder for the zipped epub files cd ~/Downloads/iBooks The following assumes you have a lot of books. If you only have a few you can compress them by right-clicking in Finder, but I didn't do it that way. You’ll see your books as a bunch of epub files, but they aren’t files they are folders. Step 3: Convert all the epub folders to compressed epub files I'm not sure if you can eject the iPad at the end of Step 1, but you can definitely do it now. You’ll see each one update with a little timer. Note, despite the time it took to sync iCloud Drive, these files were not synced to your computer! At this point the files are actually being copied from iCloud to your ordinary folder. Go to each of the two folders you opened with “open” in the last step, select all files, Copy them to ~/Downloads/iBooks eg with Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. Step 2: Copy the synced books to an ordinary folderĬreate a folder for further work. I can't find any way other than the "open" command to get to these folders! You can't cd to them and can't navigate to them in Finder by clicking or using Go. You’ll need to repeat Step 2 below for each folder if there are books in both. You'll see your books in one or both of the two windows that open. You can find more details on this step in this Question Open ~/Library/Containers//Data/Documents/iBooks Then in Terminal run both the following to open the iBooks locations: open ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/iCloud\~com\~apple\~iBooks/Documents If you've never done this, it will take a while for iCloud Drive to sync. You will not see the Books folder there, but you should see some things just to confirm the iPad is connected. The iPad will appear in the LHS navigation bar. Remember, this is for Big Sur and other recent versions of MacOs that don't use iTunes for this. Plug the iPad into the Mac and open Finder. On the iPad I was working with this was already done so I can’t detail the steps, but they are in Settings. On the iPad enable iCloud Drive and enable it specifically for iBooks. Step 1: Sync books from iPad to MacOs using iCloud Drive We’ll copy them to the Mac, retrieve them from the secret-double-hidden folder they are in, convert them into compressed single-file ePub format, convert those using third party software Calibre into to MOBI files that Kindle can read, and move those to the Kindle. The iPad stores books in ePub format, uncompressed and expanded into packages or folders. This assumes some working knowledge of settings in iPad and Kindle, good knowledge of Finder advanced features, and knowledge of how to get around the system in Terminal and run shell commands and simple scripts of 2 or 3 lines from the command line.Once you've completed this you'll know what to do with PDFs. This focuses on epub files, and ignores PDFs and other things.If it's important to you to migrate every book (which may not even be possible) you'll have to pay close attention and read between the lines. The process below does not document the errors, it only documents how to blindly migrate the books that migrate easily by following these steps and ignoring errors. If you find errors below, feel free to correct them or comment and I will. The process was long and arduous and I undoubtedly did not capture every step perfectly.Older versions of MacOS (IDK which ones) used iTunes, and this answer doesn't apply to those, or to Windows or other computers. I migrated via a Mac computer, running Big Sur.Migrate from iPad to Kindle via MacOs Big Sur with iCloud Drive and Calibre Caveats
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