By the way I really wish Apple would become more consistent with the way iBooks behaves across platforms. I like it as a place to hold technical documentation often in PDF format. Yes it needs improvements here but for some reason it doesn't sync these documents to iBooks on Mac OS devices. Strange really.
Oh, I do lol. I had an Xperia Play from 2012-2013 before I was forced to get another phone when the software became unstable. But iTunes U is niche, and obviously there isn't room for iWork/iLife on the smaller capacity devices (I have them on my iPhone 6 and was fine with it). Podcasts is sort of niche.
Yep, iBooks is really nice. I like that it auto-shifts at night to a black background. I refuse to buy Kindle books anymore, I either buy iBooks or get DRM free ePubs for my Sony Reader.
I find iBooks to be a pretty good place to store tech manuals and the like, most of which come as PDFs. It could use improvements of course as management of the various manuals can be a pain as can be attaching proper file names to the documents. None the less it is a pretty good solution for being free.
I love iBooks, but not for the iBooks Store (I don't have any problems with the store though).
I'm mostly using iBooks to store some documents: a bunch of user manuals, transit maps, some music scores, a few Project Gutenberg books, and a handful of miscellaneous PDFs (like the tide table for one nearby beach).
By the way I really wish Apple would become more consistent with the way iBooks behaves across platforms. I like it as a place to hold technical documentation often in PDF format. Yes it needs improvements here but for some reason it doesn't sync these documents to iBooks on Mac OS devices. Strange really.
I know they do. But there are times it's nicer to read on this:
than on an iPad. Lighter, no distractions, and my eyes like eInk too.
So does this means that Apple is going to up real effort into improving iBooks Author? I realize iBooks Author is free but that doesn't that it should stagnate. IBooks Author needs to be turned into a full blown Authoring system, that allows the majority of the authorship to be done within iBooks Author. Last I knew they recommended text creation in another editor and frankly that is hilarious.
Yeah, it's a pain to load things into iBA. I wish they had a more direct import system too. Or at least tie it into Scrivener.
I find I read as much on my iPhone as on the iPad. The iPhone is lighter and always with me and I find the reading experience just fine. IBooks is just frictionless and the synching is awesome when it works. Amazon? Only whennI absolutely must. I have no love for the company whatsoever.
I suppose my pic is borderline off-topic. It's standalone App rather than iBooks.
However, it does represent a huge advantage the iPad has over eInk readers. Not just the color, but the huge selection of useful (and not-so-useful) apps that are all available on a single device. I certainly wouldn't want to have to carry separate devices for reading, for charts, for weather, for email... I agree that reading in daylight with eInk is much more comfortable... but (for me) it's not worth the compromises you'd have to make in giving up an iPad.
Sorry Apple/If it's not e-ink I'm not reading the book.
Besides the Kindle app lets me read on a plenitude of devices including Apple's- all seamlessly fr the cloud w many more extras.
You won't read it if it is not e-ink. Then you immediately say that the Kindle app lets you read on a lot of devices including Apple's. Why? Isn't the Kindle app pointless for you since, besides the Kindle, Nook and Kobo (and some obscure readers) no other tablet is e-ink?
You can't even read it on the Kindle Fire can you, given that it isn't e-ink?
You have a Kindle and buy books off Kindle, but it is not something you use on other tablets anyway. So why even comment about the Kindle app?
iBooks is my favourite iOS app. My iPad Air is basically a glorified Kindle I would like to see them sell iBooks DRM free at some point. They led the way on removing DRM from music, and books are arguably even more important for humanity.
So 1 million new people buy an iBook each week. Its a bit of stretch to call them "new users" and "new customers" unless they're making repeat purchases.
Apple, once in a while makes some real dumb choices !!!
More and more so on the software side lately !
Whats up apple !?
We need an obssessed , maticulouse, topnotch person at the top to bring things back in line Tim !
Personally I like the way Apple goes about these kind of rollouts: start out 'small' like US only, iPhone only and then later allow it to go, expand to more devices and countries. There is a reason why iTunes Radio is this USA & AUS only.
I love iBooks, but not for the iBooks Store (I don't have any problems with the store though).
I'm mostly using iBooks to store some documents: a bunch of user manuals, transit maps, some music scores, a few Project Gutenberg books, and a handful of miscellaneous PDFs (like the tide table for one nearby beach).
I dislike the fact that we cannot set the directory for storing the books ourselves; now it's on the boot disk by default and we can't move it (without symlinks or the like). And what kind of location is it anyway:
~ ? Library ? Containers ? com.apple.BKAgentService ? Data ? Documents ? iBooks ? Books
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By the way I really wish Apple would become more consistent with the way iBooks behaves across platforms. I like it as a place to hold technical documentation often in PDF format. Yes it needs improvements here but for some reason it doesn't sync these documents to iBooks on Mac OS devices. Strange really.
I find iBooks to be a pretty good place to store tech manuals and the like, most of which come as PDFs. It could use improvements of course as management of the various manuals can be a pain as can be attaching proper file names to the documents. None the less it is a pretty good solution for being free.
That's 1M users^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers who download the iOS user guide every week.
EPubs work fine on iOS devices.
By the way I really wish Apple would become more consistent with the way iBooks behaves across platforms. I like it as a place to hold technical documentation often in PDF format. Yes it needs improvements here but for some reason it doesn't sync these documents to iBooks on Mac OS devices. Strange really.
I know they do. But there are times it's nicer to read on this:
than on an iPad. Lighter, no distractions, and my eyes like eInk too.
So does this means that Apple is going to up real effort into improving iBooks Author? I realize iBooks Author is free but that doesn't that it should stagnate. IBooks Author needs to be turned into a full blown Authoring system, that allows the majority of the authorship to be done within iBooks Author. Last I knew they recommended text creation in another editor and frankly that is hilarious.
Yeah, it's a pain to load things into iBA. I wish they had a more direct import system too. Or at least tie it into Scrivener.
I know they do. But there are times it's nicer to read on this:
than on an iPad. Lighter, no distractions, and my eyes like eInk too.
I prefer the pinch to zoom and swiping and COLOR of the iPad:
I prefer the pinch to zoom and swiping and COLOR of the iPad:
I don't use it for maps, I just grabbed a pic.
I don't use it for maps, I just grabbed a pic.
I suppose my pic is borderline off-topic. It's standalone App rather than iBooks.
However, it does represent a huge advantage the iPad has over eInk readers. Not just the color, but the huge selection of useful (and not-so-useful) apps that are all available on a single device. I certainly wouldn't want to have to carry separate devices for reading, for charts, for weather, for email... I agree that reading in daylight with eInk is much more comfortable... but (for me) it's not worth the compromises you'd have to make in giving up an iPad.
Sorry Apple/If it's not e-ink I'm not reading the book.
Besides the Kindle app lets me read on a plenitude of devices including Apple's- all seamlessly fr the cloud w many more extras.
You won't read it if it is not e-ink. Then you immediately say that the Kindle app lets you read on a lot of devices including Apple's. Why? Isn't the Kindle app pointless for you since, besides the Kindle, Nook and Kobo (and some obscure readers) no other tablet is e-ink?
You can't even read it on the Kindle Fire can you, given that it isn't e-ink?
You have a Kindle and buy books off Kindle, but it is not something you use on other tablets anyway. So why even comment about the Kindle app?
iBooks is my favourite iOS app. My iPad Air is basically a glorified Kindle
I would like to see them sell iBooks DRM free at some point. They led the way on removing DRM from music, and books are arguably even more important for humanity.
Is that the Android experience? Wow, just wow.
Personally I like the way Apple goes about these kind of rollouts: start out 'small' like US only, iPhone only and then later allow it to go, expand to more devices and countries. There is a reason why iTunes Radio is this USA & AUS only.
I dislike the fact that we cannot set the directory for storing the books ourselves; now it's on the boot disk by default and we can't move it (without symlinks or the like). And what kind of location is it anyway:
~ ? Library ? Containers ? com.apple.BKAgentService ? Data ? Documents ? iBooks ? Books
v1.0 wasn't like this, we set it ourselves.