Clint, you can save PDFs to iBooks.

Can you get ibooks on your ipad without using itunes or the cloud?
I'm not trying to be a dick. I honestly don't know.

You can sync them over iTunes (via a cable or over the air), or you can email them to yourself, or you can download them from Safari.

And, here's a question for you, and I'm not trying to be a dick either. What other methods would you foresee using?

So the answer to my question is "no"?



For a PDF?
Attach my kindle to my laptop with a USB cable, open it up in explorer, drag and drop.
That's how I put things on my android phone as well.
In fact, that is how I have put things on and off every usb capable device I have ever owned - phones, mp3 players, cameras...

That is how I put episodes of the podcast on my phone - which is where I generally listen to them.

I think there is an app called Air Share or something that lets you drag and drop files over Wifi to your iPad/iPhone. If you're not on a Wifi you can always make a Wifi Ad Hoc with your Laptop.

I do agree that Apple not letting you drag and drop files is crazy.

Oh, I absolutely understand why they do it.
Computer savvy people are not their target market. They are trying to reach the much larger market of people who are not tech-savvy. And trust me, you really don't want people that are not tech savvy mucking around with files on a computer. The tech savvy crowd messes up enough stuff by themselves.
They are trying to turn a computer-like device into a true appliance.

How? By using iTunes? iTunes is one of the most confusing pieces of software ever written. I hate it.

Woke up to sneezing and itchy sinuses.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

I guess Apple people are wired differently.

I see a computer, a USB cable, and an iPad and think"I should be able to plug that into that and move stuff."

Apple people see those things and go "I should sign up for a third party service that requires an active internet connection for both devices to move things wirelessly, or install another program that needs to be downloaded to move things vis USB."