Read iBook books on an Android tablet
by Bill Farmer.
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Hacking
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You will need to install Calibre to make the books usable, and the books must be DRM free.
There are two ways to do this:
- If you have a Mac or Hackintosh you can find your books in
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books, in what appears to be epub files but are really folders with numeric names. Copy the ones you want to somewhere accessible, like~/Books, and zip the contents of each folder, not the folder itself. Rename the zip files as epub files.
- Alternatively, use iTunes on a PC to download the books you want. You can find them by right clicking a book and selecting Show in Windows Explorer.
Your books will be readable epub files with no front cover and no table of contents, despite having a file called cover.jpg and toc.ncx in them. Load them into Calibre, and use the Edit book toolbar button to edit the book. Use the Tools>Table of Contents>edit Table of Contents menu item, and press the Generate ToC from major headings button. Use the Tools>Add cover menu item and pick the cover.jpg item for the cover. Save the edits, and you now have a usable epub book to export to your tablet. Use Aldiko, or your favourite epub reader to read it.
