Instructions for reading iTandCoffee Guides on an iPad or iPhone (PDF versions)

When you purchase any iTandCoffee guide in PDF format from the iTandCoffee store, you will be taken to a confirmation web page and receive a confirmation email that contains a link to the document that you purchased (or multiple links if you purchased multiple documents).  

By clicking or touching on any of these links (ie the text underlined in blue), you can download the applicable PDF guide to your computer or iPad/iPhone.  

When you download the guide to your iPad/iPhone your guide will be able to be saved to the Files app - and then read from within the Files app, or opened in the Books app and read from there.  The steps for doing this are shown below.

(Note. If you have an older version of iOS on the iPad/iPhone, you may not see to same options.  The steps at the bottom of this page show how to open the downloaded guide in iBooks/Books for those of you on an older version of iOS.)

Of course, to be able to read the iTandCoffee guides in Books, you must first (of course) have the Books app on your iPad/iPhone. If it is not there, you can download and install it from the App Store.   If you prefer to use the Kindle app for reading, the iTandCoffee Guides can be read using that app instead.

Step by step instructions for downloading and viewing PDF guides on iPad / iPhone

1. Tap the link on screen or in the email
2. Safari will open, and show a symbol at top right indicating that the download is in progress.
3. Tap on symbol to see progress of download.
4. When download is finished, tap the magnifying glass symbol to view the downloaded document. (It will have downloaded into your Files app, into the location defined in Settings -> Safari -> Downloads.)
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5. You can read the downloaded guide in the Files app (icon shown here), scrolling up and down to move through the pages.

If you want to read the book in the Books app, follow the steps below.
6. Open and read the guide in Books, choose the Share symbol.
7. If you do not see the Books icon in the list of icons provided, choose the ... More option.
8. Tap Open in Books. 
Note. The above steps will open the PDF in Books, but will not copy the PDF into your Books library. This means that, each time you want to read the guide, you will need to access it from Files and (once again) Open in Books. If you don't see a Copy to Books option in the ... More menu, you will have to create a Shortcut for this and add it to your Share menu. Here is an article that gives instructions for creating such a shortcut.

Step by step instructions - older versions of iOS

1.  On your iPad, touch on a document link on the web page or in the email that you received.

2.  The document will open in Safari.  Be patient - it will take a little while for it to download and appear.

3.  When the download is finished the title page for the document will appear on the screen.
4.  When you see the document appear on your screen, touch on Open in 'iBooks' at the top right of the page.   If you don't see this option, just touch on the screen to make it appear.  

(If it still doesn't appear, you may not have iBooks on your iPad - visit the App Store to download this free Apple app.)
5.  iBooks will open, showing the book that you have just downloaded.

6. Swipe left and right to move through the pages of the book. 

7.  Touch on Library at top left to view all the PDFs that you have downloaded.  If you don't see the Library option, touch the screen to make it appear.

8.  All PDFs that you download will go into the PDF collection - you can then move them to a new collection if you desire.