Be well read with iBooks. Download the iBooks app from the App Store. Then fill your iPad library with books — including a whole new kind of textbook — from the iBookstore. Take them to more places than you’d ever take a regular book. And from the moment you pull one out on your iPad, you’ll be pulled in.
Download the free iBooks app
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The iBookstore is just the beginning.
Start with the bookshelf. With a tap, it flips around to reveal the iBookstore, where you’ll find over 700,000 books and counting — many of them free. View what’s featured on the iBookstore and the New York Times best-seller lists, or browse by title, author, or genre. Find a book you like and tap to see more details, peruse reviews, even read a free sample. With iCloud, you can have the new books you buy on your iPad automatically download to your iPhone and iPod touch, too.* So they appear on your bookshelf, everywhere you want them.
Works with iCloud
It’s a really great read.
Reading on iPad is just like reading a book. But once you tap to turn the first page, you’ll see it’s nothing like a book. Read one page at a time, or turn iPad on its side and view two pages at once. Tap to read everything full screen, with no distractions, or read in white-on-black nighttime mode. Even alter the look of most books by changing their text size and font.
Now there’s nothing textbook about the textbook.
Experience the most amazing textbooks you’ve ever read. Textbooks that take advantage of everything iPad can do with Multi-Touch, audio, video, and more. Textbooks that capture the imagination and take learning to a whole new level. With iBooks textbooks, you can flip through a book by sliding a finger along thumbnail images of each page. Now you’re no longer limited to the flat images in a paper textbook: flick through an entire photo gallery instead. Use a finger to rotate a 3D object. Or have the right answer spring to life in a chapter review. It’s like nothing you’ve ever experienced. And it’s something you won’t want to put down.
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All the highlights. And the notes. And the definitions.
With iBooks, all the tools you need are quite literally at your fingertips. Run your finger over a line of text and it’s highlighted. Tap a highlighted section and a palette appears. Change colors, switch to underlining, or add a note. Then switch to Notes view to see all your notes and highlights instantly organized in one place — with tappable links to the relevant passages. Weird word? Look it up in the built-in dictionary, on Wikipedia, or on the web. You can also search inside a book. And since iBooks works with VoiceOver, the screen reader in iPad, it can read you the contents of any page.
Your books and PDFs.
All arranged in one place.
Organize your bookshelf however you like. Create collections by genre, for example. And keep PDFs — user guides, business proposals, project plans — on your bookshelf, too. When someone emails you a PDF, or if you find one on the web, you can choose to open it in iBooks. Or sync the PDFs on your Mac or PC to your iPad in iTunes. Then go to your bookshelf and tap to open one.