Books from a hard drive to ipad

I want to buy iPad but I want to be able to transfer books (not from the ibook store) from a hard drive to it. I don't think you can do that using iTunes. What can I do?

You have some options:
Create a PDF file from the book, then transfer that to the iPad to be read by a PDF reader on the iPad such as GoodReader.
Convert the book file to the format used by iTunes. I suggest looking at calibre 1.41.0.

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