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Instant Apple iBooks How-to

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Instant Apple iBooks How-to

Overview of this book

"iBooks is a great tool for book lovers. This book is a guide for using iBooks for reading, managing, and creating books – everything that an avid reader (and the writer within you) would need. ""Instant Apple iBooks How-to"" is a practical guide that takes you on a reading and writing journey with iBooks for your iPad. Begin with getting familiar with iBooks and proceed to write your first interactive book with iBooks Author! This book begins with downloading the iBooks app from the iTunes store and adding books and PDF collections to it via iBookstore. The book then goes on to explain other technologies in the iBooks app and concludes by showing you how to write your own book with iBooks Author. Not only will you learn how to read and manage books effectively, but you will also learn how those books can be created with iBooks Author. You will also understand how iBooks Author templates can help you lay out a book easily; some third party templates are also available. You will learn everything to maximize your reading and writing experience for the iBooks platform."
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Adding PDFs to the iBooks library (Should know)


The most popular format for e-books is still PDF, since it makes a strong case for easy distribution and wide acceptance with multiple readers; desktop, web, and mobile all support PDF documents almost natively.

How to do it...

iOS devices detect PDF from e-mails, web pages, and so on and show an Open in iBooks button to open the PDF directly in iBooks.

I have some free PDF books from Packt Publishing J in my account at https://www.packtpub.com/. I will download one of them and add it to iBooks via e-mail. Here is how a PDF can be added to iBooks from within an e-mail:

There's more...

PDFs can also be added to iBooks via iTunes and synced to your iPad or iPhone. The Sync option in iTunes provides an option to sync all the books or selected PDFs only.