iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can d More...

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favourite classics — day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favourite passages.

Download books
• Download best-sellers and classic books from the iBookstore
• Find fully illustrated books, including children's picture books, designed art books, photo books, cookery books and more in the iBookstore
• Experience gorgeous full-screen Multi-Touch books designed for iPad. These books are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos and more
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBookstore before making it a part of your permanent collection

Great ways to read
• Choose from seven beautiful fonts, three easy-to-read page colours and three useful page layouts — Book, Full Screen and Scroll
• iBooks beautifully renders text written in 18 different languages
• Highlight your favourite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Share thoughts about your favourite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages or Mail
• Find a word, character or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
• Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — such as speaking the words on a given page
• Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint

iCloud features
• Organise your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices
• Keep your bookmarks, highlights, notes and current page up to date everywhere using iCloud
• See all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud—on your bookshelf with iOS 6

Supports open standards
• iBooks also opens content published in the ePub and PDF formats
• Add ePub and PDF documents to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
• You can also add PDF documents from Mail to your iBooks PDF Collection

Requirements
• The iBookstore is available in many countries. The selection of books in the iBookstore may vary by country
• Downloading from the iBookstore or using iCloud features requires an Apple ID and Internet access
• All books created with iBooks Author can only be read with iBooks on iPad
• Books created with iBooks Author require iOS 5 or later. iBooks Author 2 requires iOS 5.1 or later
• Syncing books made with iBooks Author requires iTunes 10.5.3 or later
• Adding books and PDFs from outside the iBookstore to iBooks requires they be DRM-free and synced using iTunes 10.5.3 or later
• Some PDF documents may not be compatible with iBooks

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