Ipad and text ebooks

I was test driving the Ipad in Best Buy to see if it would replace my wonderful, but aging, Rocketbook Ereader for which I have several thousand text ebooks. Despite getting a balance between two answers (yes and no) about whether or not the Ipad would allow the user to load his own ebooks, it appears that the answer is yes.

Questions. Any ebook users out there that read ordinary text books on their Ipad and which app would you recommend? Or, alternatively, which apt should I not waste my money on?

Thanks

I'm not sure if this is the correct answer or not, but I'll ask this--what format are your books in?? I'm certain that "iBooks" supports the Epub format, but other apps are available for .pdf and other formats. I've put several Epub books that I downloaded for free on the iPad and they look really good considering they weren't designed specifically for the iPad.

ezcompane said:

I'm not sure if this is the correct answer or not, but I'll ask this--what format are your books in?? I'm certain that "iBooks" supports the Epub format, but other apps are available for .pdf and other formats. I've put several Epub books that I downloaded for free on the iPad and they look really good considering they weren't designed specifically for the iPad.

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Mostly .txt files, but also a lot of .htm, .pdb, .rb and .pdf files.

Right now, iBooks and the Kindle reader are the only "ebook" readers that are optimized for the iPad screen real estate.

You should probably look into GoodReader and Comic Zeal. Do a little format comparison to see what you'll need. But I think these 4 are the best out there currently.

I would think B&N, ereader.com and Stanza should have apps headed our way.

cptkrf said:

Mostly .txt files, but also a lot of .htm, .pdb, .rb and .pdf files.

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Get yourself a copy of the free eBook reader program Stanza, it is available for multiple operating systems including OS X and Winders.

Open each book you want to read on your iPad. For each book that you can open, thus not protected by DRM, export that book in ePub format. Put them all in one folder.

Start iTunes, use Add To Library to import your books. Get the free iBooks app from Apple. Read your books.

See http://macsaregreat.com/?p=396

Ok. Thanks for the replies, everyone.

Download Calibre. It will manage your book library and can convert to pub format for import into iBooks.

Ok. Good advice everyone.
Calibre works wonderfully. It converts just about anything that has words in a row. The file it makes just has to be dragged and dropped into Itunes. I use Interparse to clean up any jammed together text.

Fix..Drag..Drop..Convert..Drag..Drop..Read.