Apple releases iBooks 1.3 update

#1 Macworld

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 01:06 PM

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#2 flybynight

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 02:11 PM

"... faster opening times for very large books..."
I can confirm that for Atlas Shrugged, this is true! A welcome update!

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 02:18 PM

flybynight, on 07 June 2011 - 02:11 PM, said:

"... faster opening times for very large books..."
I can confirm that for Atlas Shrugged, this is true! A welcome update!

That would be the biopic of Steve Ballmer, right?

I love iBooks, but I haven't found a lot of my favorite authors on it yet. But then as I get more hooked on Audible books, eBooks have to compete with those as much or more than vs dead trees. :blink:

Eric

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 03:45 PM

very good, my iBooks 1.2 has Rapunzel getting a Brazilian!

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 06:40 PM

Personally, I won't be buying many ebooks until or unless I can copy and paste quotations from them. You can do this with some things—like Project Gutenberg stuff, for example—but I don't have much incentive to replace my non-fiction with ebooks if I'm still going to have to manually type quotations from them.

I like iBooks a lot, and I'm very willing to buy ebooks, but if I'm going to give up the right to sell books I no longer need or want I think it's reasonable to get something in return. The absence of copy & paste will be a real deal-breaker for me most of the time.

#6 TomMcIn

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 09:16 PM

Now if I, and others, could get an iBook reader for OSX. We have iTunes and the Mac App Store, just no iBook reader.

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Posted 07 June 2011 - 09:23 PM

TomMcIn, on 07 June 2011 - 09:16 PM, said:

Now if I, and others, could get an iBook reader for OSX. We have iTunes and the Mac App Store, just no iBook reader.

Agreed, and this is the main reason why I favor the Kindle app.

#8 sockimaging

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 01:27 AM

The new update prompted me to try iBooks for the first time. Up till now I had been using the kindle app on my iPad, and assumed the iPhone is too small for reading books. I thought the first title I'll search for is the new book about the history of the iPhone, Always On.

Unfortunately iBooks crashes my iphone4 every time I try to access the store. So it's back to the kindle app.

*censored, with the bad rep to prove it

#9 DarrynLowe

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 02:35 AM

All I want is for iBookstore to be available to New Zealand users. I love reading with iBooks because I find the sepia very easy to read.

Add sepia to PDFs and I will be a very happy chappy.

#10 DaveWeller

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Posted 08 June 2011 - 07:13 AM

Quick tip on copy and paste in iBooks. This frustrated me greatly as I like to post quotes from books in some online forums. It CAN be done. Select the passage you want to quote. Tap the "search" option. Once search comes up you can copy the text in the search box and paste it anywhere.

hope that helps.