books on iPad for Aboriginal people.
By Birding-Aus, on April 1st, 2014
Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land want to download a couple of my fauna books onto iPads as they contain much information in their language. Does anyone know how I can go about this? Regards Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD candidate Vice-chair Wildlife Tourism Australia goodfellow@bigpond.com.au _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
fauna books onto iPads how I can go about this? If you have access to the iPads, you’ve got a few options. Things have been changing with book transfer in the past year or so, at least on Mac OS. (Books are now in iBooks instead of iTunes with OS X 10.9+) One idea worth trying is to download a wonderful free program called Calibre onto your computer (Mac or Windows): http://calibre-ebook.com/ Install Calibre onto your computer and then import your books into the Calibre library. From there, you can do all sorts of things such as changing formats. ePub and iBooks works very well in most cases on the iPad. For transfers, go to Calibre and look for “Connect/Share” and then select “Start Content Server.” Look again and the item will tell you the address of the content server on your local network, such as: “Stop Content Server [192.168.1.235 Port 8080]” At this point, Calibre is running a small Web server on your network at the address listed above. Any machine that is on that network should be able to download books by opening Safari (Chrome doesn’t work) on the iPad and doing to the address. Using the example above: http://192.168.1.235:8080/ Once you’ve connected from the iPad, you should see a Web site with various options for looking through the collection of books. Find one of the books you want to transfer and look for a button labeled “Get”. Click it and Safari should ask what you want to open the document in. I use “Open in iBooks” as that’s the reader I prefer. (Lots of people like Stanza and other readers – several of which will also work in this case with Calibre+Safari.) That usually does the trick. Another trick that I’ve seen described is to email a copy of the book and then click the document. Again, you should see ‘Open in iBooks’ and possibly other options. That’s even easier than using Calibre, I suppose. I just tried this out here and it worked when I logged into a mail account using Safari. I just tried it from the Mail program on the iPad and it worked perfectly – and with the easiest to understand dialogs yet. I’m sure that there are other ways beyond these – perhaps even hosting the files on a Web server would be enough, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be. Hope this helps. P.S. I don’t know if you need any special fonts to display text in the Kunwinjku language. If so, you can embed fonts in PDF and some other formats. Calibre can sometimes be helpful with such tasks, depending on exactly how you created your book files. _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org
Do you have the books in electronic form? If so, what format? PDF files are easy to access on an iPad. If not then you’ll have to scan or photograph them. Peter Shute _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org