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How To Save Web Pages for Reading in iBooks (on a Mac)

by patrickj July 24, 2010

Have you ever started reading a long article on the web and thought that it would be great to be able to read it in iBooks on the iPad? If so, did you know it’s quite easy (on a Mac) to print a web page as a PDF to iTunes and read it later on [...]

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iBooks App Updated Again – Adds Audio and Video Support

by patrickj July 20, 2010

Apple’s iBooks app for the iPad (and iPhone and iPod Touch) has been updated, to Version 1.1.1.  The list of changes in the new version is as follows: Double-tap an image within a book to view it in greater detail. Experience books that include audio and video. Enjoy substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs. Look-up [...]

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iBooks 1.1 Update Not Doing All It Promised with PDFs?

by patrickj June 27, 2010

TUAW has a recent post up stating that the iBooks 1.1 update is not delivering all the new PDF-related features that it promises.  As shown in TUAW’s screencap above, the two features in particular that are not working with PDFs are the ability to flip through pages and to highlight text on pages. I’ve had [...]

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iBooks App Updated – Adds PDF Support, Notes, and Bookmarks

by patrickj June 22, 2010

The iBooks app has been updated, as promised at Apple’s recent WWDC 2010 keynote address.  The new version number for the app is 1.1 and the major new features added include: PDFs added to the Library area of the app – so you can browse and open PDF files imported via email or iTunes sync [...]

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Recommended: Mike Cane’s Sneak Peek at the iPad’s iBookstore

by patrickj March 30, 2010

Mike Cane is a real books guy.  Books are his thing, as he says. He’s got two very good posts up at his iPad Test site offering his thoughts on the iPad’s iBookstore, after getting a recent sneak peek at it, and highlighting some unexpected free titles in the fledgling store. He’s got lots of [...]

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iPad iBooks App Has Free Project Gutenberg Titles Built Right In

by patrickj March 27, 2010

  More good news on the iPad iBooks app and reading free ePub titles from Project Gutenberg in it.  It looks like many (or perhaps all) these free – and classic – titles are included in the iBookstore catalog.  And of course they’re still free. AppAdvice has got the scoop on this one: If you’re [...]

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iBooks App on iPad – Some New Things We’ve Learned About It

by patrickj March 13, 2010

As pre-orders for the iPad went live yesterday, Apple also revealed a lot more information about the ‘magical, revolutionary’ device, from more tech specs to more details about the not quite built-in (but available free in the App Store) iBooks app. iBooks will double as an ebook reader app and bookstore for acquiring ebooks.  One [...]

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A Good Reason Why iBooks Is Not a Built-in iPad App?

by patrickj February 11, 2010

I noticed some time back that the (very pretty looking) iBooks app is not a built-in app on the iPad, even though it was demo-ed and talked about quite a bit at the iPad launch event.  It’s a free download from the App Store instead, and like others I’d been wondering why. I think the [...]

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