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Wow.. ok, now i bought it but i didn't think it would be so much trouble reading the books on my iPad.. itunes? syncing? Bahh, i don't even know when i last used itunes :(

boots into windows to update some crappy buggy software to read an ebook on his tablet

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We are working on updating our instructions in favor of a direct download approach, which seems to be way better. Sorry about the iTunes favoritism!

-Jeff from Humble Bundle

You might want to consider adding "Add to Readmill" buttons to the post-checkout page: https://readmill.com/developers/send-to-readmill

(and no, I'm not affiliated with them, I just think they've built a great platform)

YESSSS Please do this, I'm really liking Readmill integration for the DRM free eBooks lately.

Awesome, jeff! Love Humble Bundle!

p.s.: i just saw that kindle is also on the appstore. So i may sync without itunes AND have it on my smartphone (android) and the ipad. yay!

Jeff, when I try to download PDF, my browser (Chrome) downloads "viewer.html" instead of the PDF.

I think this is a chrome PDF viewer issue. You may want to fix this.

Why not open the ePub links from Safari and say "Open With..." iBooks? Worked fine for me. They will sync over to iTunes and your computer or the cloud when you next sync up.

Oh ok, sounds better, so i can use the links on the ipad and skip itunes? Then ignore my comment, i'm happy again ;)

You shouldn't need to-- you can load a PDF or ePub into iBooks straight from Safari or email.

They should mention that on the instructions page, thanks

you should check out Readmill: http://readmill.com

It's quickly become my favorite book-reading app on the iPad, and their webapp is pretty awesome too. You can load any unprotected EPUB.

Can you just email yourself the ebook and open it that way?

I saved it to my Dropbox, then I can open it on my iPad directly.

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