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I have my iPad now with iOS 5.1. In the email I have a .epub but when iPad's email program download the file, there is no way to open it on iBooks? Tapping or double tapping on the attachment downloaded will have no reaction. Can this be solved if I don't have a PC to place that file into Dropbox to open in iBooks?

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Might be a stupid question, but have you installed the iBooks app in your iPad? It's not installed out of the box but must be downloaded from the App Store (for free). – patrix♦ Apr 14 '12 at 9:46

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In all cases I have tested, iOS recognizes epub files and will offer to send them directly to iBooks.

I have tested this from the email all, dropbox app as well as mobile safari.

Other apps like Evernote and AirSharing also are able to receive my epub files, so if you are not able to do this, perhaps it's an encoding issue or something about how the files are being attached to the emails and not necessarily a problem with iOS.

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hm... the epub i was trying to open was an epub purchased from O'Reilly, the MacRuby Definitive Guide... I wonder then if there is something wrong with it. I later tried using Gmail in Safari on iPad, downloaded the file and was able to transfer to iBooks – 動靜能量 Apr 13 '12 at 19:03
There's a good chance the file didn't download correctly. I had a similar issue with a large ePub file recently inside iOS, which resolved itself when I connected to a more reliable network. – Randolph West Apr 17 '12 at 23:45

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