3 Popular PDF to iPad Converters

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Most people expected the iPad to double as an e-book reader. However iPad's iBooks e-reading app only supports the ePub format, so have you ever wanted to convert PDF book to ePub format for your iPad? Here are a number of ways to create ePub content:

Stanza Desktop

Stanza is a great PDF to iPad converter which allows you to convert from a large variety of formats like MS LIT, Mobipocket, Kindle, RTF, PDF, MS Word, and many more into ePub. Click here to try Stanza Desktop.

Calibre

Calibre is a free pdf to iPad converter for Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux that allows you to convert to ePub from a wide variety of formats. So with this tool, you could easily convert your ebooks from PDF format to ePub format and transfer them to iPad. Calibre currently does a better job than Stanza Desktop at preserving styles and formatting of source documents. Click here to try Calibre. PS: It chops up images. Sucks for converting magazines or other PDF heavy with images and multiple columns.

DNAML's PDF2EPUB

DNAML's PDF2EPUB is an easy-to-use PDF to iPad converter, which could convert PDFs to EPUBs in 6 easy steps. The nice thing about this software is that it can handle headers and footers which are often challenging when converting PDFs. Click here to try PDF2EPUB.

Here are some iPad to Computer transfers for Windows and iPad to Mac transfers. When PDF to ePub conversion is finish, you may need an iPad to PC transfer. Go and get one.

What is ePub format?

Digital ebook saved in the EPUB format, an open XML-based format for digital books and publications; provides a standard digital publication format for publishers and consumers; can be viewed with supporting software programs and hardware devices, such as the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader.

The EPUB format is based on three open standards, including the Open Publication Structure (OPS), the Open Packaging Format (OPF), and the Open Container Format (OCF); all three standards are produced by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).

Other ePub Creaters

Adobe InDesign: InDesign is a high-end publishing tool for authors and publishers, and supports the creation of ePub files.

Feedbooks: You can log into Feedbooks and create your own content, which will be made available in ePub, as well as other formats like PDF and Kindle. In addition, any books you create and share will automatically be included in the "Free Books by Feedbooks" section of Stanza's Online Catalog under the "User Created Books" area, so you don't need to download and transfer the book separately.

BookGlutton API: If you have your book in HTML format, you can convert it into ePub using their online conversion API.

ePub Tools: Command-line tools suitable for batch processing and integration into toolchains. Includes tools for conversion from Word, RTF, DocBook, TEI, and FictionBook.

Adobe PDFXML - Per Adobe's blog, this is useful for making small changes to existing EPUBs.

eScape - ePub Creator - "It lets you instantly and effortlessly turn Open Office Writer documents (ODT) into perfect ePubs..."

eCub - "a simple to use EPUB and MobiPocket ebook creator"

eCub Sigil - "Sigil is a multi-platform WYSIWYG ebook editor. It is designed to edit books in ePub format."

Easy EPUB - By simply uploading your InDesign or Quark book files, EasyEPUB will quickly produce a fully compliant EPUB version of your book within 5 minutes.

Ultimately, an ePub file is merely a zip file consisting of XHTML and XML metadata, so it is possible to create one "by hand" yourself. A good tutorial for this can be found at http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/tutorial.asp.