I use Nextcloud[1], a self-hosted, platform-agnostic file sharing / personal cloud app. It's FOSS and is super easy to set up through Docker.
Whatever file I put onto it is available on iOS, Android, a browser and WebDAV. It also supports camera upload.
Germany recently switched to Nextcloud[2] to share data between agencies and as a privacy-respecting alternative to G Suite / MS.
When I upload a .doc to the platform my iPhone can open it within the app. Same for PDFs.
[2] https://nextcloud.com/blog/german-federal-administration-rel...
Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
by coupdejarnac on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @04:48PM
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I love that all the proposed solutions here totally suck. If the iPad would just work as a USB flash drive, all these convoluted transfer methods wouldn't be necessary.
Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
by chipotle_coyote on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:30PM
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"Suck" is in the eye of the beholder, I guess. Between "plug the iPad into the computer and drag files from your computer onto a folder that's on the iPad's drive" and "drag files from your computer onto a folder that automatically syncs to the iPad," I count one less step in the second approach, but I guess YMMV.
The included "Files" app in iOS/iPadOS 13 can mount SMB shares.
Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, a USB cable, a USB drive...
Classic solution is email it to yourself.
> a USB drive
For a moment I thought this was going to be the solution, but then I looked into it and it turns out that you need an external power supply even for a flash drive.
Re:The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
by GarrisonPrime on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:37AM
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Pass them through an intermediary, such as Google Drive?
Sounds intriguing. How would I go about copying the PDFs that are currently on my Linux PC onto it, though?