Syncing Kindle Books to iPad

I bought a book by John Ringo that had a DVD that contained all his books. I copied the DVD (which is allowed by the license) to my MacBook Pro. The books are in several formats including the one use by Kindle. Downloaded the Kindle app to my Macbook, added the books to my Kindle library and it works fine. Just got my iPad and want to load the books onto it. However, the Kindle does not sync the books. I assume that it will only sync books purchased from the Kindle store. The question is how to I get these onto my iPad.

I know this is a bit after the event and you may have a solution, but I just came across this when I was trying to figure out the same sort of thing - kindle-formatted ebooks (legal!) that I had on my PC.
It works via Dropbox. What you do is copy the files from your Kindle content folder on your PC to the  Dropbox folder there and then open Dropbox on your iPad. You then try to open each file in Dropbox and will be told it can't open it, but in the top right, there's the icon for Open With and you'll find the Kindle app shown when you select it. Open in Kindle, the file will be sync'd to your Kindle library and you can then delete it from your Dropbox folder.
It will then exist separately on the iPad and your PC, so bookmarks, etc., won't be syn'd between them, but it will at least be readable.

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