To use the iPad, I think you will need the iPad camera connection kit, which is $29 unless they supply that also. The SD card goes into one end, and the other goes into the connection and then the photos are loaded onto the iPad. It works quite nicely.
There is second connector that comes with it in which you can directly connect a camera's USB cable.

However, since there is no USB port on the iPad itself, I don't know that you can load the photos back into a computer using a flash drive.

Maybe some one who is more computer savvy than I knows a trick. By the way, I use a Photogene App on the iPad to edit photos. To see details on the connection kit click on this
iPad Camera connection kit .
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Eugene