My mom got an iPad Air as a birthday present. She has been using an iBook G4 running 10.4.11 until now.
I am trying to migrate her photos from the iBook (iPhoto) to the iPad. Is there any easy way to do so?
No easy way no.
G4 with 10.4 means a (very) old iTunes version (9.2.1). For iTunes 10 you need a least Leopard.
To sync with iOS7 (the default OS of the iPad Air) you'll need iTunes 11.1.
Other options :
If I plug my iphone 5s into our old Sony Vio (2003) it sees all the photos as if the phone was a camera. We have a G5 Powermac and a much newer MacBook Pro. Neither will allow me to get photos from the iphone. The only draw back is the photos are number img001 etc. Once brought back to the Mac though, the Metadata is intact. I always thought Apple was a great platform. they invented "plug and play" but the simple task of getting photos off a phone , via USB (which has been around for years) seems to much to ask. To solve the nice file names that the iphone issues (based on date and time, I am writing a script (in Applescript) to apply the date and time data to the file name. (have to change . to : and . to - for date and time thought)