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iPad

Two sides to the story.

Download the iBooks app free from the App Store. More than a great ebook reader, it’s also an amazing place to browse and shop for books day or night. Tap the iBooks icon and your bookshelf appears. Tap the Store button and the bookshelf flips around like a secret passageway to reveal the iBookstore, where you can browse tens of thousands of books — many of them free. Browse by title, author, or genre. View what’s featured on the iBookstore, the New York Times best-seller lists, and more. When you find a book you like, tap it to see more details, peruse reviews, even read a free sample. Download the book and it appears on your bookshelf, ready to read. As your library grows, quickly group books or PDFs into collections to keep your bookshelf neat and organized. Books you download are also available on your iPhone and iPod touch, so you’ll never be without your favorite reads.

iBooks

Get the free iBooks app and start reading books on your iPad today. Visit the App Store

It’s a great read.

Reading on iPad is just like reading a book. You hold your iPad like a book. You flip the pages like a book. And you do it all with your hands — just like a book. The high-resolution, LED-backlit screen displays each page beautifully. Turn iPad to the portrait orientation to view a single page. Or view two pages at once by rotating it to landscape. Change the text size or even the font for most books. iPad automatically adjusts the words so they fit on the page. Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in dictionary or Wikipedia, or to search for it throughout the book and on the web. iBooks also works with VoiceOver, the screen reader in iPad, so it can read you the contents of any page. Yet even with all these extras, reading is so natural on iPad, the technology seems to disappear.

Grow your library.

You’ll find over 150,000 books on the iBookstore, and more arrive every day. iBooks uses the ePub format — the most popular open book format in the world — so publishers can easily create iBooks versions of your favorite reads. You can also find free ePub titles on the web using your Mac or PC and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.

The plot thickens.

iBooks now features illustrated books for your reading — and viewing — pleasure. The bright iPad display brings rich, colorful detail to every page, so images look just as the author intended. Download gorgeous, full-page children’s books, cookbooks, and art books. Or flip through Enhanced Books, where words, pictures, audio, and video come together. Listen to an author read a favorite passage, watch supplementary video, or flick through a library of photos or unpublished excerpts. Whether you’re looking for depth or a diversion, a little bit of context or a lot more clarity, Enhanced Books give you the inside story.

All your PDFs. Right where you want them.

The iBooks app also works with your PDF documents — user guides, business proposals, project plans, and more. You add PDFs to iBooks in two ways: Select a PDF from an email message on your iPad and open it in the iBooks app, where it appears on the bookshelf. Or add a PDF to your iTunes library on your Mac or PC and sync it to your iPad. In iBooks, you can tap a button to switch between viewing your iBooks titles and PDFs. Tap a PDF and it fills the screen. Swipe through pages, add bookmarks, or zoom in for a closer look — even print what’s onscreen via AirPrint.*

Always find your place.

When you take a break from reading, iBooks automatically saves your place across all your devices. So you can start a book on your iPad and pick up where you left off on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you read, check the page navigator to see where you are in the story. Or jump to any chapter right from the table of contents. And if you read something especially interesting or inspiring, use the Bookmarking feature to highlight text and make notes — perfect for students.