Question: Best way to get my Paizo PDFs onto an iPad 1?

[Stromko]

So, currently my method is that I download the pdfs from Paizo.com onto my main computer, then email it to myself via my gmail account. Following that I open up that email account on my iPad 1, open the PDF, and hope that the PDF in Safari gives me option to 'open it in iBooks' which then saves a local copy to my iPad and means I can access my books on the go.

The problem arises when this doesn't work. A given PDF under a certain size (or for no apparent reason) tends not to give me the option to save it to iBooks or download it in any way. Any PDF over 100 megs has a tendency to crash Safari the instant it opens it.

Right now I'm unable to get the Pathfinder Society Guide to Organized Play to save onto the iPad, nor can I get any version of The Inner Sea World Guide to save onto it. For the latter, the 'Lite' version is still 240 megs and I know from experience it can't open that without crashing, and the 'One File Per Chapter' version won't save because they're too small, or something.

I am a total noob when it comes to apple products, so that's why I'm asking. I'm asking here because I figure someone out there has already cracked this exact conundrum. I'm hoping there is some solution, as I can get things like my Pathfinder Core Lite and Ultimate Equipment Lite saved and read perfectly fine on my tablet.

[Oceanshieldwolf]

Not sure if this helps but I'm using iZip.com app to download from the Paizo store/DrivethruRPG onto my iPhone/iPad.

[Enlight_Bystand]

Goodreader is a solid PDF reading application for the iPad. You can download zips directly from Paizo into it.

ISWG is just a masive file, and it will struggle to download it. Probably the best tactic is to download it to your main computer. Then when you sync, on the bottom of the app tabs there will ber a pane where you can transfer documents directly into Goodreader, which will allow you to get the files over.

[Doug OBrien]

Oceanshieldwolf wrote:

Not sure if this helps but I'm using iZip.com app to download from the Paizo store/DrivethruRPG onto my iPhone/iPad.

^ iZip does the job just fine for me, as well. I think I am using a sample version I downloaded from the istore directly. you just use it to open directly into your ibooks reader.

[Sebastian]

Enlight_Bystand wrote:

Goodreader is a solid PDF reading application for the iPad. You can download zips directly from Paizo into it.

ISWG is just a masive file, and it will struggle to download it. Probably the best tactic is to download it to your main computer. Then when you sync, on the bottom of the app tabs there will ber a pane where you can transfer documents directly into Goodreader, which will allow you to get the files over.

Goodreader is my solution as well - I can download files from my account on the Paizo website directly to my iPad using that program.

[GregH]

Third vote for Goodreader. You can even set up your computer as a network share and copy them directly from your computer harddrive.

[Aranna]

I just download any pdfs I want to read directly onto my Ipad1. Not sure why you need all those extra steps. Even using iBooks.

[Stromko]

Aranna wrote:

I just download any pdfs I want to read directly onto my Ipad1. Not sure why you need all those extra steps. Even using iBooks.

It works fine with a lot of the big PDFs (up to a certain size), but some just won't give the option to save to iBooks.

I'll give Goodreader a shot and see if it fixes the issue. Thanks all.

(Edit) Yeah it's working well for me. Now I can buy scenarios from the store without worrying that I'll be limited on how to access them (though I'll most certainly print them out before running them anyway).