iBooks Update to Include Notes, PDF Compatibility
At today's WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs announced that the iPad's iBooks app will receive an update later this month that will add the ability to view PDF documents within the app. Additionally, the app will get an updated bookmarking control and users will be able to add notes to books and documents.
Jobs noted that PDF viewing has been the most requested feature from iBooks users. PDF documents will be shown on a separate virtual bookshelf within the app.
Notes will be displayed as yellow sticky notes, imitating the Stickies application in Mac OS X, and both notes and bookmarks can be viewed on a new Bookmarks page when reading a book or document. iBooks will also be arriving for iOS 4 (previously known as iPhone OS 4) devices, which include the iPhone and iPod touch.
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26 months ago
where is my pdf iBooks viewer on my iPad? Doesn't seem like a far stretch to have included that out of the box.
26 months ago
excellent, This will be very useful for uni lectures, especially with the notes function!
26 months ago
You guys think this will be an app store update or some bs iOS update? Because iPad's arent getting iOS4 til the fall.
26 months ago
The first update is about iBooks? Seriously?
Where would you start? Kind of think wherever it started someone would question it. Seems Jobs just cannot satisfy everyone everyday. How does it matter if iBooks was first subject or last? Maybe like the good salesman he is Steve just wanted to start of slow. I for one liked it first. YMMV
26 months ago
this is probably the best bit of the whole keynote for me.
these features will make iBooks much more useful.
these features will make iBooks much more useful.
26 months ago
I can't say it's the best news, but the best news for iBooks, for me.
Now I don't have to go through the process of having to convert the PDFs anymore. The tools to do it, today, are a bit of a hassle with a little trial and error.
This will *seriously* speed up whenever I scan in music sheets for performance. (That is, can't wait for the iPad to get this. The iPad pretty much replaced having to shuffle lots of pieces of paper on a music stand. I have error-proof paging to keep up with my music, while playing. No more mess, papers falling off the stand, nor the threat of having to recover dropped sheets and getting lost because they got thrown out of order.)
Now I don't have to go through the process of having to convert the PDFs anymore. The tools to do it, today, are a bit of a hassle with a little trial and error.
This will *seriously* speed up whenever I scan in music sheets for performance. (That is, can't wait for the iPad to get this. The iPad pretty much replaced having to shuffle lots of pieces of paper on a music stand. I have error-proof paging to keep up with my music, while playing. No more mess, papers falling off the stand, nor the threat of having to recover dropped sheets and getting lost because they got thrown out of order.)
26 months ago
I assume the iPad will get PDF viewing with the next iBook update. I am torn from having spent money on a good PDF reader to being happy about having iBook as my new PDF reader.
26 months ago
Where would you start? Kind of think wherever it started someone would question it. Seems Jobs just cannot satisfy everyone everyday. How does it matter if iBooks was first subject or last? Maybe like the good salesman he is Steve just wanted to start of slow. I for one liked it first. YMMV
"So that's all about the iPhone. Now I'd like to talk a little bit about iBooks. Wait, don't go!"
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