Chess e books

Where do you get them? Put them on iPad? take up a lot of room?Any advice would be helpful.

Amazon has quite a few for Kindle. Everyman also has an app for iPad where you can purchase their ebooks, it has a board so you can move through the games, Gambit also has an equivalent app for their books. Other than that if you have a PDF book you can load it in your iPad and read it like any other PDF File.

So is a kindle book the same as an e book and would be ok to use in iPad?

It's a type of ebook, depends what you have in mind. The Kindle chess books are like any other Kindle books if you've used a Kindle before. If you want the book to have an integrated board that plays the moves in the text than no. I only know of the Everyman and Gambit books, I haven't used them though.

Keep in mind that ebook is a generic term for an electronic book, so basically anything that is in digital form, even a PDF.

You could see how a kindle book looks like, use the feature " look inside", or you can download sample pages. You can read a kindle book, even if you don't own a kindle device, using a kindle application. There is also app for pc's.

Other forms of chess e books are interactive, and you can also download sample chapters to explore their content. An example is forwardchess app.

        stwils;   IMO, stay away from ebooks. has to do with copyright protection. Kindle books have all been approved for sale.  Like the big bru ha ha when college kids were downloading every piece of music they could get, or try to for free, a few yrs back. 

I don't quite get what you are trying to say... everything I have mentioned is approved for sale.

            I'm sorry, I wasn't meaning you personally.  I'm sure you have perfectly good stuff.  I think stwils is a little young. He's on a computer, and he doesn't know how to google chess ebooks??  He's associating the word kindle with book. Kindle is the device, like steam engine to describe a train. Or C.D. and cassette. 2 different formats, but they both play music. 

                The OP was asking where to get them??                                                 http://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=chess+ebooks

As stated above a number of chess publishers do apps for Ipad or Android. I prefer Everyman Chess because they do e-books in chessbase and pgn format. This allows you to use them on PC's, laptops, tablets, and phones.