Apple Updates iBooks App with Nighttime Reading Theme, New Fonts, More

Solid update. Loving full screen and dark modes

Wow looks really nice. Can't wait to start reading in night and full screen modes!

awesome finally no more settings brightness down black on white color setting change every night

The iPad needs dark mode system wide.

Go into settings>general>accessibility and turn on "white on black".

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.

A good update, the night mode was one reason iBooks sucked in comparison to the others, though I'll be sticking with the Kindle app.
The Kindle version looks much the same, only it does away with the header and footer at top and bottom and the text goes to the edge of the screen. For an iPad it wouldn't be much of an issue and I'm sure iBooks would be fine, but for an iPod/Phone you want all the screen real-estate for text you can.

And it only took them two years to add a night mode despite it being one of the most consistently requested features for their app and a half dozen other apps already having the feature. Bravo. World-class foot dragging on their part. I mean I know people were shocked when it was revealed they only had one (or was it two) guys who actually worked on the Apple apps (hence why Remote stagnated for years), but come on. Add a few extra programmers to the Apple Apps division. I'm sure that $75 Billion can pay for a few extra programmers.

Reading books on LCD displays is bad enough for long periods of time, at least night mode makes it less strenuous on the eyes.

Thanks to this update I can now read at night... oh wait. I could do that before. It's called Thomas Edison.

:rolleyes: Yeah, I just love it when I'm trying to get to sleep and my spouse makes use of that Thomas Edison invention so he can read.

I think you kinda missed the point here. Night reading is for those who want to read in bed without turning on the lights. Usually, they go for this option because they don't want to disturb the person with whom they are sharing the bed--a boon for insomniacs. But it'd be very good for reading scary stories aloud around the campfire as well :p

Totally agree.

How do you guys even know Steve was the one who prevented those things?

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.

overall, few folks are likely to wait to sit at their computer reading, especially for longer books

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

growing sales of computers without said option are probably going to speak a lot louder than an easy to pad petition.