I just discovered that the 5 books I bought on the Kobo site for download to my iPad2 are not available when I'm hooked up to wireless! ARGH!

I bought them specifically for a beach vacation where there is no internet - I wanted to 'get away from it all!'

Does anyone know how I can get those books into my iPad2 to read in either airplane mode or offline completely?

If they were free book, chances are they are also free on most other sites. Find a wi-fi hot spot, fire up iBooks and search the iBooks Store for the titles you want. Chances are they are also free. Same for the Kindle app and Amazon.

And while I do not have the Kobo app, I find it peculiar that you can not read offline. At that same hotspot, open the app and prod, poke, or other wise abuse the books in the app to see if you can find a download option.

That's strange if you've already downloaded the books. Did you just buy them and not download them? I have free books from Kobo and just turned off my wi-fi and 3G and can still access them without a connection.

It's been awhile since I bought a Kobo book, so I can't swear that it works like other book apps, but generally you buy and then download. It's two steps to get a book on your iPad. If you just buy without downloading, then yes you'll need an Internet connection when you get around to downloading. But downloading generally takes less than a minute, so I buy and download at the same time. Then I can read without a connection.

Very strange,
After you purchase they down load automatically.
You can read any time any where.wifi or not!!!!
Even the fee ones
I use kobo,borders,iBooks and kindle all the same process

Originally Posted by 55julie55

Very strange,
After you purchase they down load automatically.
You can read any time any where.wifi or not!!!!
Even the fee ones
I use kobo,borders,iBooks and kindle all the same process

On Kindle, which I use most, the books download only when you open the Kindle app. So say you shop and buy on Amazon's site, then don't open the app till later (when you might not have an Internet connection), then you can't read the book. So best to buy and download immediately if you won't necessarily have a connection later.

On B&N, you have to click "Download," or the book won't download.

I too purchased four books from Kobo and happily went on vacation for reading on the plane and on resort. With the exception in the lobby of the resort, I could not read them! Talk about frustrated! It's a good thing I also brought my Sony reader! I would have had absolutely nothing to read. I honestly thought that once you downloaded them, like magazines, you would be able to read them without an Internet connection. This was a big disappointment!

Originally Posted by Cindysturgeon

I too purchased four books from Kobo and happily went on vacation for reading on the plane and on resort. With the exception in the lobby of the resort, I could not read them! Talk about frustrated! It's a good thing I also brought my Sony reader! I would have had absolutely nothing to read. I honestly thought that once you downloaded them, like magazines, you would be able to read them without an Internet connection. This was a big disappointment!

That really bites. I've not used Kobo in ages, but have noticed similar probs with B&N books -- even books previously downloaded have disappeared and required redownloading for no apparent reason. Maybe it's tied to app updates in my case, because I rarely read B&N books now. Whatever the reason, it's crazy that any downloaded book isn't reliably available for reading.

I've been using Kindle ebooks for about four years without prob, so I'm sticking with them. Once downloaded, I've never had access probs to any Kindle book, even when I've traveled to countries without a Kindle store.