Description
iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Features:
• Download many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore
• In addition to standard text, the iBookstore also offers books that are fully illustrated, and enhanced with audio, video, and animation
• Experience gorgeous fullscreen Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad. These textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos, and more
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your collection
• Reorder your books on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category
• Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
• Change the font size and pick from six included type faces to make your books more comfortable to read
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
• Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the automatic
bookmark syncing feature
• Quickly find a specific page using the page navigator at the bottom of every page
• Read your books on white or sepia colored pages
• Switch to full screen to remove all distractions, or read in white-on-black with the nighttime mode
• Choose left or fully justified text layout from Settings
• Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Add books in the industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Add PDF documents to iBooks from Mail, or add them to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
• Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint
• Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – such as speaking the words on a given page
Requirements:
• iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch must have iOS 4.2 or later
• An Apple ID is required to download from the iBookstore
• Automatic bookmark syncing requires an active Wi-Fi or cellular data connection and an Apple ID
• iBooks opens books made with iBooks Author, ePub books, or PDF documents
• To add books from outside the iBookstore, they must be DRM-free and synced using iTunes 9.2 or later. To sync books made with iBooks Author, they must be synced with iTunes 10.5.3 or later.
• iBooks textbooks can only be viewed on iPad and are currently available to customers in the United States
• Some PDF documents may not be compatible with iBooks
What's New in Version 2.0.1
iBooks 2.0.1 addresses an issue where iBooks textbooks may not open.
iBooks 2 introduced iBooks textbooks.
• Experience gorgeous Multi-Touch textbooks designed for iPad
• iBooks textbooks are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, and videos
• Tap to dive into images with interactive captions, rotate 3D objects, swipe through image galleries,
watch videos in full screen, and more
• Use a finger as a highlighter when swiping over text in a textbook
• Take advantage of Study Cards to help you memorize important highlights, notes, and glossary terms
• Tap glossary terms to see definitions of key topics and concepts without leaving the page
The iBookstore offers textbooks on Algebra, Biology, Chemistry, Geometry, and Physics from McGraw-Hill
and Pearson.
These textbooks are currently available to customers in the United States.
Textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are coming soon.
iBooks textbooks are created with iBooks Author — now available as a free download on the Mac App Store.
Customer Reviews
Great, but could be Greater.
Great app for endless reasons but, I'm often frustrated at the inability to perform various tasks that if implemented would make this app even greater!
Please consider the following much needed features for the next update:
• Highlighting Tool (for both books and PDFs)
• Bookend Organizers (to further organize books and PDFs into categories)
• Social Networking Integration (to select quotes/short passages from books and PDFs and post them directly to places such as Facebook and Twitter)
• Note Taking Tool (to select a passage from a book or PDF, type notes/thoughts/reflections on that passage, and save it.)
Thank you!
College books
The app would be great if I could buy any of my college textbooks. You should really add the capability to do that. Then I wouldn't have to carry all these college books around campus and I would probably buy an iPad.
Updated for the newer version
**Updated**
I noticed a new update for iBooks and figured grab the new version. As soon as I restart the app post update, I see all my PDF books for about 3 seconds and then nothing. So I switched over to the Books section to only find one of my books.
Awesome. You managed to include zero new features for previous functionality AND deleted all my books/pdf's off my device. If you're actually trying to drive sales of GoodReader you just did one hell of a job!
Mediocre app that obviously isn't going to improve on the feedback that's been given.
**Previous review**
I've been using iBooks since I got my iPad and installed it on my iPhone 4S as soon as I got one. All in all, the app works well as a book reader. However if you're going to be using it for something with a lot of images (such as a Pathfinder RPG PDF) it is super slow.
The other big issue I have that still hasn't been addressed is sorting books in the "shelf" view. If I'm in list view, I can easily sort by author, title or even genre if I'd like. In shelf view, I'm stuck with either the order I load them on my device or I spend time sorting them manually.
- Free
- Category: Books
- Updated: Feb 03, 2012
- Version: 2.0.1
- Size: 56.4 MB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2012 Apple Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
