How do I get PDF's off an old iPad

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Just got a new iPad to replace my old iPad 2 and have about 50 PDF's that did not transfer to the new one. Is there a easy way to get them off besides emailing them to myself? I've tried syncing with iTunes as well.
 

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You didn't give us any info to go on... but you can try to use Dropbox to upload the PDFs from your old iPad and then download them to your new iPad. That means you have to have Dropbox installed on both iPads.
 
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Thanks, I've installed Dropbox on both now for the future. As it turns out, my daughter, helped solve the problem. Rather simple, connected the iPad to the iMac, opened iTunes and transferred purchases to iTunes. Now I have copies of my PDFs on iTunes and could select which ever ones I want on any device.

On iTunes 11xx it is under "File" > "Devices". Transfer Purchases from ...
 

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