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I have a 63mb mobi format book.
Normally I get mobi books to my iPad/iPhone via the email share setting in Calibre. However the size of the book is too big to do that.
How else I do open up the mobi file? Any way to get iTunes to sync it to iBooks? or to use iCloud? I've got the file in Dropbox, but when I try to open the file in Kindle, it does not show up. iBooks is not given as an option.
I didn't enjoy Calibre. But then I realised that it comes with a bunch of command line utilities, and that made things easier for me.
Imagine you have a bunch of epub files.
for f in *.epub
do
anytomobi --dest-profile=Kindle "$files"
done
That's the Linux command line to convert them all to mobi using the calibre tool. Except I think the command line toold have changed name in the newest release.
Here's a website, from the Calibre pages, that claims to by a guide to converting HTML to e-book formats, including mobi.
http://amalthia.mediawood.net/tutorials/ebooks/index.html
This page seems most important for your question, it has nice screen shots for the settings used.
iBooks for iPad currently doesn't support highlighting in PDFs. However, there are many 3rd party apps like iAnnotate PDF, GoodReader, or PDFpen that support PDF highlighting and annotating. I use GoodReader and I can personally verify that PDF highlights that were made on Mac's Preview do show up on the GoodReader iPad app.
I also tested the DropBox iPad app and PDF highlights do not show up.
Hopefully, Apple will add PDF highlighting to a future version of iBooks. If enough people request this feature at the Apple feedback site, maybe they will add it in the near future.
Best Answer
I can’t say how to get it into the Kindle app, but the problem with iBooks is that it’s the wrong file format.
Calibre can convert it to ePub (Convert books menu), then you can get it into iBooks in a variety of ways. (control-click to get the context menu, save to disk, then drop on iTunes/iBooks)