iBooks discussion

I have iBooks, Kindle, Nook, and Overdrive readers all installed in my original iPad and I often have a book going in each one. The iBook reader is proving to be my favorite, though. I read a lot of older books and have been impressed by its dictionary. I also like the option at the bottom of the page to return to where I was reading after flipping to another part of the book. In addition, I like having a copy of the book stored on my PC rather than trusting Amazon or Barnes & Noble to keep my library accessible over my lifetime. Like you, I find myself leaning toward iBooks for new books.

Hi Everyone! I have iBooks & Kindle on my iPad and iPhone. I love iBooks best. I love it when I want to look up a word that I just need to select the word and bam! I was reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen and you need a dictionary at times. :-) I love the way he writes!!!

I prefer iBooks!

Hi I have iBooks along with other eReaders downloaded on my ipod, but I love the features of ibooks and I like that it looks like an actual bookshelf! :D

I actually came to this group lamenting the incompatibility of various e-reader apps. I have scads of books spread across 5 or 6 readers, I wish iBooks could cull them all into a neat package for me.

Hi, I am alls so an I-book fan!

Hi, everyone:
I too love iBooks (I would love it even more if the selection rivaled that for the Kindle, but it is slowly improving).

I admit to being one of the old fogies who likes the way it replicates a physical book. I don't feel that I am e-reading at all. Alas, Apple just fired the guy responsible for that. I can only hope they don't turn the app into a Kindle clone. Right now, it's beautifully designed. I especially like knowing how many pages are left in a chapter and having the app use pages rather than locations, even if they are e-pages that change with the formatting.

I'm glad you set up a group to chat about iBooks.

İ am moe an i-Book reader

Since getting my iPad, I read more on iBooks now. Pretty much full time as it happens.

Hi guys I am ED

Just thought I would introduce myself and say hello!

Looking forward to interacting with you all

Warm Regards

ED

Hi ED,

Welcome.

Harrison

Hi Harrison

Thank you

Regards

ED

Good morning, I've had my iPhone 4S now for almost 14 months. I just now learned to get into the reading. Any tips tricks or other information on using any of those would be most appreciated. Thank you in advance for this group. PS I just joined this morning.

Hi Everyone! I love my iPad Mini and think it's the best device for children's picture ebooks. (Apple is the only major player that allows file sizes large enough for image-heavy books--up to 2GB.) If anyone is interested in knowing more about the details of animating a picture book for the iPad, I'd be happy to help that conversation along. I'm not associated in any way with Apple and I'm not here to promote myself--just to share what I've learned.
Cheers!
DB

Hi. I just found groups on goodreads and this looks like a good start. I use my iPad and iPhone for everything these days, especially reading. The only time I really pick up traditional books is when I'm working.
I'm thinking about adding kindle to start comparing prices, and to see if the free and sale books are any cheaper.

Kindle books do tend to be a little cheaper than iBooks, but if the price is close I tend to stick with iBooks. I actually have 5 readers on my iPad - iBooks, Kindle, Nook, Bluefire, and Overdrive. Usually I have a couple books going at once. I read them in different apps rather than having to open and close the books.

I spent the last year learning CSS keyframes animation so I could animate my picture book for the iPad. If you'd like to see the results, here's a link to download the epub from my Dropbox.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0tpe67bbrv...

Load it onto your iDevice and see what it's possible to create without a programmer, using only Photoshop and a text editor (BBEdit). This is an epub--not an app--and I think it's the future for animating picture books. It's only possible because Apple fully supports the W3C standard for HTML5/CSS3. Someday soon the other e-readers will catch up...