Well. . . I'm really not sure if "thanks" is an adequate enough word to properly acknowledge the invaluable help I've received from you all, but, anyway . . . T H A N K Y O U!!!
My admittedly limited past experience of online forums has most often been that of Custer seeking rescue but acquiring only more Indians, it being the case that answers have tended to assume I know what I'm doing when I don't, and thus I finish up more beleaguered by the solution than ever I was with the problem.
Not so here. Thanks entirely to everyone who has been kind enough to take the time and trouble to respond, I have just now -- and very quickly, and very, very easily -- downloaded into my iBooks Library the New England Tourist Board brochure which Dave accurately deduced was the info I was after.
What I hadn't realised (and I'm feeling mortified about this) was that there was a SECOND drop-down options menu which could be reached by sliiiiiding the screen after tapping it. What I'd done was go to Share and tap and stare blankly at a list which I'd thought was all there was. By scrolling, as JA and Dave so kindly flagged up, a further options list appears. . . including iBooks.
The upshot of this is that I've told Husband, I really don't know why he's using Android, all that messing around with clicking to download, then opening file manager, then going to the downloads folder, then finding the file, then opening it. All I have to do on my iPad is 'share' the file into iBooks and it's instantly there. He's now not speaking to me. Ah well.
Seriously though . . . I am so very grateful to all of you for the help received. It's always frustrating to get 75% of the way there with a task but fail to complete it due to ignorance (as in this case: if I hadn't scrolled / swiped, I'd never have found the iBooks option.) Simple things, I guess, where experienced users are concerned but to a novice unused to a new Operating System, they can be problematic.
I do seem to have taken up a lot of everyone's time with this query, and apologise for any inconvenience inadvertently caused. I would've liked to name-check everyone here by way of appreciation but as that might sound like an Oscar ceremony speech, I'll desist. I have, however, discovered the hitherto invisible (to me) postings option bar and am now able to thank ('like') where thanks are due.
And now, back to research. Husband and I have meandered far and wide across our former colony and long since forgave its residents for their aversion to Earl Grey (the tea, I mean). As a result of our 1000s of miles of travel over the years and all the good times that resulted, we may possibly be more Americanophile than even some Americans. New England, however, is unknown to us, so at last -- and, again, because of all the help and advice so generously given here -- at last I now sit back and read, if not the expletive manual, then definitely, the tourist brochure.
Sincere thanks again, and best wishes to you all.
My admittedly limited past experience of online forums has most often been that of Custer seeking rescue but acquiring only more Indians, it being the case that answers have tended to assume I know what I'm doing when I don't, and thus I finish up more beleaguered by the solution than ever I was with the problem.
Not so here. Thanks entirely to everyone who has been kind enough to take the time and trouble to respond, I have just now -- and very quickly, and very, very easily -- downloaded into my iBooks Library the New England Tourist Board brochure which Dave accurately deduced was the info I was after.
What I hadn't realised (and I'm feeling mortified about this) was that there was a SECOND drop-down options menu which could be reached by sliiiiiding the screen after tapping it. What I'd done was go to Share and tap and stare blankly at a list which I'd thought was all there was. By scrolling, as JA and Dave so kindly flagged up, a further options list appears. . . including iBooks.
The upshot of this is that I've told Husband, I really don't know why he's using Android, all that messing around with clicking to download, then opening file manager, then going to the downloads folder, then finding the file, then opening it. All I have to do on my iPad is 'share' the file into iBooks and it's instantly there. He's now not speaking to me. Ah well.
Seriously though . . . I am so very grateful to all of you for the help received. It's always frustrating to get 75% of the way there with a task but fail to complete it due to ignorance (as in this case: if I hadn't scrolled / swiped, I'd never have found the iBooks option.) Simple things, I guess, where experienced users are concerned but to a novice unused to a new Operating System, they can be problematic.
I do seem to have taken up a lot of everyone's time with this query, and apologise for any inconvenience inadvertently caused. I would've liked to name-check everyone here by way of appreciation but as that might sound like an Oscar ceremony speech, I'll desist. I have, however, discovered the hitherto invisible (to me) postings option bar and am now able to thank ('like') where thanks are due.
And now, back to research. Husband and I have meandered far and wide across our former colony and long since forgave its residents for their aversion to Earl Grey (the tea, I mean). As a result of our 1000s of miles of travel over the years and all the good times that resulted, we may possibly be more Americanophile than even some Americans. New England, however, is unknown to us, so at last -- and, again, because of all the help and advice so generously given here -- at last I now sit back and read, if not the expletive manual, then definitely, the tourist brochure.
Sincere thanks again, and best wishes to you all.
Dave
