Apple Updates iBooks App with Nighttime Reading Theme, New Fonts, More
Apple released a version 1.5 update to their iBooks iOS app that provides a number of new features to the ebook application:
iBooks 1.5 adds the following new features as well as some stability and performance improvements:iBooks is a universal app that supports iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. [App Store]
- Nighttime reading theme makes reading books in the dark easier on the eyes.
- Full-screen layout lets you focus on the words without distraction.
- iBooks now features an improved selection of fonts, including Athelas, Charter, Iowan, and Seravek.
- Beautiful new classic covers for public domain books.
- Support for pop-up footnotes, included in select iBookstore titles.
- A redesigned annotation palette makes it easier to choose a color for your highlighted text.
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20 months ago
Amazon already had that "night mode". If the tables were flipped, you'd all be screaming for a lawsuit.
20 months ago
Now that Steve Jobs has departed -- R.I.P. -- I hope Apple's management can now move beyond some of Steve's bloody-minded areas of resistance:
1) create an iBook reader for Mac. - I currenrly have 200+ Kindle books, and would much have preferred to get them in iBook format. But I want something I can read cross-platform on my iPhone/iPad as well as Mac.
2) matte screens for iMac and Cinema Displays, and 13" MBP and MBA. C'mon, see the reasons given at the petition site http://macmatte.wordpress.com
1) create an iBook reader for Mac. - I currenrly have 200+ Kindle books, and would much have preferred to get them in iBook format. But I want something I can read cross-platform on my iPhone/iPad as well as Mac.
2) matte screens for iMac and Cinema Displays, and 13" MBP and MBA. C'mon, see the reasons given at the petition site http://macmatte.wordpress.com
20 months ago
LOL! See, isnt it nice when Apple gives its customers OPTIONS? Who would have thunk to see Apple fanboys give pleasant feedback in such a case.
Now if only Apple applied this philosophy of choice in other areas...
Now if only Apple applied this philosophy of choice in other areas...
20 months ago
Thanks to this update I can now read at night... oh wait. I could do that before. It's called Thomas Edison.
And you can commute to work by horse and buggy.
And your spouse must really love the "Thomas Edison" mode.
20 months ago
Wow looks really nice. Can't wait to start reading in night and full screen modes!
20 months ago
Between this and future retina displays (Fingers crossed) I think that leaves exactly 1 situation left where e ink makes sense. All other situations have been locked up tight.
20 months ago
Still no Comic Sans. Comic Sans should be the ONLY font available. Everyone should read on Comic Sans!!
20 months ago
awesome finally no more settings brightness down black on white color setting change every night
20 months ago
It's great to see some fantastic features of Marco Arment's Instapaper brought over to iBooks. Good stuff.
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