Why not directly download to the iPad?
I have Overdrive and regularly download books from the library to my iPad ( first gen)
And I'm able to read them without involving my laptop or desktop machines.
John
--- In iPad@yahoogroups.com, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@...> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/2012 3:31 PM, Dottie Kaplan wrote:
> > Gijzette -
> >
> > I have Overdrive on my iPad. The problem is I can't get the books from
> > my computer to my iPad to open with Overdrive. When I connect the iPad
> > to the computer and try to drag a book over, it says that this cannot be
> > played on this iPad. The library says that it can.
> >
> > Dottie
>
> How are you "dragging it over?"
>
> With iTunes open, click the My iPad link in the left-hand column (if you
> gave your iPad a different name, that will be what appears there).
>
> Then click the Apps link across the top, once your iPad's info shows up
> in the center screen.
>
> Once the screen which will show one of your iPad's screens and have a
> list of the installed apps, scroll way down and there will be another
> list of apps which you can transfer files back and forth between iPad
> and computer. Scroll down until Overdrive appears and click on it.
>
> The list of any books you currently have installed should appear in the
> panel to the right, along with a button to "Add" -- click that and then
> navigate to where your odm book file is on your computer and select that
> and it should be imported into Overdrive for you.
>
> Or, you might be able to use DropBox -- drag the odm file into your
> Dropbox folder on your computer, open Dropbox on your ipad and then
> select that odm file. Dropbox will most likely say "unable to open
> [filename]" but that's okay, click the "Send To" link in the upper right
> of the screen and any apps which can open odm files should be in the
> list, which would hopefully include Overdrive. Select that and the file
> will be transferred into Overdrive. Once that's accomplished, you can
> delete the file from the dropbox folder on your computer.
>
> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@...
>
