My brother’s a writer and keeps sending me his books and novellas to read. They’re PDFs and I hate staring at the computer for such a long time. Can I read them in the Kindle app on my iPad instead?

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You sure can, though the experience isn’t quite as good as when you have a proper epub format Kindle book because functions like the ability to resize the text or change the width of the margins vanishes, but assuming that he’s formatting the document in a reasonable format prior to converting it into a PDF, yes, you can download it to your iPad, iPad Mini or iPad Air and read it in the Kindle app just like all your other ebooks.

The trick is figuring out how.

As with so much related to the iTunes program, working with apps that can have their own file store on your iOS device is not particularly intuitive…

To start, plug your iPad into your Mac system (on a PC the process is the same, but the screen shots would be different, of course) and make sure you know where your brother’s latest PDF manuscript is located too. Go to the Apps tab in iTunes:

Here’s the big secret: scroll down. Down below all the app icon layout content.

Below that there’s a whole ‘nother section:

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Well, that’s interesting!

As you can see, on the left are shown Apps that have file sharing capabilities, while on the right you can see the files or documents associated with that particular application. In this case, it’s the Kindle App for the iPad and there are no current docs.

To add one, click on “Add…” and choose the PDF file in question. Now it’ll look like this:

I’m poised to read a pre-publication edition of Ted Galdi’s “Elixir”, but the idea’s the same.

All ready? No additional PDFs or epubs you want to put on the iPad? Then click “Apply”.

It’ll take 15+ seconds to sync and copy, but once it’s done, go into the Kindle app on the iPad itself and…

Nothing. No new PDF.

What the deuce? Turns out that the Kindle app can sometimes take a few seconds to notice that there’s a new file available. I usually tap on the “Device” tab on the bottom and it then shows up, along with hiding books that aren’t actually downloaded onto my iPad itself:

Hey, there it is on the top left, even tagged as “New”.

Tap on it to read the PDF…

Flip and you can get to a page that has actual text, at which point you realize that if the original PDF was designed well (e.g. with reasonably big type) it’ll work fine, but if it was poorly laid out, it’s potentially going to be fatiguing to read on the iPad screen:

Still, quite readable, especially when you rotate it to the more typical vertical orientation of a book.

Hope that helps you out, good luck with your brother’s books. I hope he’s a good writer!

Paper’s great for some things, but when it comes to reading and taking notes, the traditional medium is mediocre at best. And when iPad apps try to replicate paper, things get even worse.

“It doesn’t work,” said Craig Tashman, developer of the LiquidText PDF Reader app, which Apple showcased in an iPad ad this week. “They end up inheriting the deficiencies of paper without really inheriting the things that make it work.”

Tashman talked with Cult of Mac about his quest to reinvent paper, and the massive benefit of having a $945 billion tech giant giving an indie developer some props.

LiquidText PDF Read: An iPad app worthy of a stylus

LiquidText is part of a new generation of iPad apps that highlight the tablet’s versatility and make the most of Apple Pencil. It’s a smart PDF markup tool designed for reviewing and annotating PDF files, web pages, and Word and PowerPoint documents.

Steve Jobs famously said that if Apple customers ever saw the company releasing a stylus, something had gone seriously wrong. However, when the innovative Apple Pencil debuted in 2015, it underlined the iPad’s status as a great productivity tool.

Lots of stylus-based apps borrow the paper metaphor by letting you scribble words onto a document, much as you might write in the margins of a book. In some cases, that’s enough. Signing a PDF version of a contract is now easier than ever, for example.

However, in other situations you need to go further. You might want to link ideas in different sections of the same document, combine information from different documents while retaining links to the originals, or pull off other feats that just aren’t possible with regular dumb paper.

“Things like organizing your thoughts, gathering knowledge spanning different documents, finding connections, taking notes without losing their context — which are all hard to do on paper — are generally all hard to do in digital as well,” Tashman said. “LiquidText makes this easy. It’s designed around the way you think, not around paper.”

LiquidText PDF Reader works beautifully, precisely because Tashman scrapped the paper concept. His powerful app lets you add in-depth annotations and edits that simply can’t be done using the regular “comment” features found on the likes of Google Docs.

Apple support gives LiquidText a boost

LiquidText PDF Reader started out as Tashman’s graduate thesis at Georgia Tech, where he studied human-computer interaction. After realizing that paper is “actually a pretty mediocre reading medium,” Tashman coded up a prototype. Soon, people began asking him to buy it.

After he graduated, Tashman and a team of colleagues launched the app into the App Store. So far, more than a million people have downloaded LiquidText PDF Reader.

The latest iPad ad isn’t the only support the team has gotten from Cupertino. In 2015, Apple named an early version of LiquidText the year’s most innovative iPad app. In just two weeks, iPad owners downloaded it an extra 100,000 times.

“We’ve been fortunate to have a really broad user base,” Tashman said. “We have everyone from airline pilots using it for taking notes on flight manuals, to scientists using it for research, analysts using it for going over SEC filings, all the way to lawyers.”

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Tashman won’t spill the beans on when Apple approached him about his app’s appearance in the “Paperless Paperwork” iPad ad. The 15-second spot contrasts office drones riffling through messy piles of papers with a LiquidText user breezily annotating a document with an Apple Pencil.

Although the iPad ad never mentions LiquidText PDF Reader by name, Tashman said he’s immensely happy with the portrayal of his app. “We’re thrilled,” he said. “The ad brilliantly captures the problem of paper, and recognizes that digital should not be about imitating paper.”

As for a sales boost? It’s too early to tell how big the ad’s impact will be. Nonetheless, things are looking good. “We did have a very strong day today, especially among students,” Tashman said.

If you want to experience the power of going beyond paper, you can download LiquidText PDF Reader from the App Store for free. You can unlock premium features through an in-app purchase.