#Apple ibooks account help download#
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At the bottom of the page you'll see 'Bookshelf, Titles, Authors and Categories'. When in Icon List view, there are four different ways to sort the list of books. The middle icon (three white horizontal lines) will show the books in Icon List view, shown below. The first icon (four white squares) will display the books as icons which is how I've shown the Library above. The first two control the way that the books and PDFs are displayed. Top right of the iBook app are three icons. To return to the ePub Library, click on Collections and choose 'Books'. Click on the Collections icon to choose between the two. IBooks has two libraries, one for ePubs (books) and the other for PDFs. When you are ready to exit the iBooks Store, tap on the Library icon, below red box. In the iBooks Store you can do a search or search through Categories.

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If you purchase the book on your Mac desktop or laptop, you can sync it over to your mobile device by attaching your device to your Mac. If you purchase a book from the iTunes iBook Store on your mobile device, the book will be downloaded directly to your device. The iBooks Store runs through your iTunes account. The first icon on the left is 'Store' where Apple will be happy to let you purchase books. There are icons top left and top right of the Library. When you launch the iBooks App on your mobile device, the Book Library will open and you will be presented with the iBooks bookshelf. To be honest, I think that PDFs display and work better on my iPad then they do on my desktop Mac. The iBooks app can display PDFs as well as ePub books.

#Apple ibooks account help download#

All you need to do to access all of these abilities is to download the free iBook app to your iPhone, iTouch and iPad. Purchase a book once, store it in iCloud and have it on a number of mobile devices. In 'Settings' you can turn on or off Text justification, Auto-hyphenation and sync your Bookmarks and Collections to the iCloud. There are controls for the brightness of the screen, changing the book to Sepia and even put it into 'Night' mode for nighttime reading. You can change the size of the font and even change the font style. An ePub can have a Table of Contents listing chapters, and an Index at the back of the book, all of which are actively linked. You can search the web or search Wikipedia from inside the book. It is possible to Search, Bookmark, Highlight text, take Notes, and look up words in a Dictionary. You can send emails and link to web sites from an ePub. An ePub book is much more than just a book, it's a container, a container that can hold text, photos, video and audio. Not true!Īt first blush, an ePub book, (ePub is the format that Apple uses) in Apple's iBooks, may look simplistic, but looks can be deceiving. Table of Contents, maybe a photograph or two, but that's it. Most of us think of a digital book as being a simple digital copy of a book that has been published in print. It has been several years now since the digital book has appeared on the scene. Download the ePub iPad/iPhone version of this article.