Copy PDF documents with Files Lite
I have a fair amount of solo travel coming up. We are talking around 100 hours of sitting in waiting areas or in the air. This is a lot of time to kill and there is only so much mobile working one person can take.
So I will be looking to educate and entertain myself with reading. The problem, of course, is that books weigh a lot, and I try to restrict my luggage to only carry-on wherever possible.
Enter my friend, technology! I have a handy iPhone gadget just waiting to assist me.
One of the things I was hesitant about with the iPhone was its ability to work with documents on the move, and thankfully for reading the iPhone excels.
Did you know the iPhone is also a handy ebook reader? Yup, it can natively view PDF ebooks, and some other formats – even Microsoft Office documents!
- Email – The most common way people get ebooks on to their iPhone is email. You email yourself an attachment and download to your phone cache and it is there to open up and read – easy!
- iDisk – Sync documents using iDisk before you leave, or when you get to open up your laptop.
- Files Lite – Another sync tool, Files Lite will create a tiny web file server in your iPhone so you can transfer files over wifi using a username and password.
- Browser – If your PDF is web accessible, download using the built in Safari web browser, just make sure you do not close the window or clear the cache!
- Dedicated apps – There are dedicated ebook reader applications, and also if you are in the USA you can get the Amazon Kindle application, as yet I have not needed a dedicated app and can’t get the Kindle app in the UK yet
Do you use your iPhone for travel reading? Please let me know what you do in the comments. Also if you read ebooks and PDF files on a different device, I would like to know about that too!
