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Apple Adds Audio and Video Capabilities to 'iBooks'
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WTF is wrong with these forums? Sholudnt the moderators be asking themselves why they have become a magnet for trolls, and get their collective moderating act together before they alienate even more posters to leave for apple insider or other apple forums?
The impetus for saying this, is that there is absolutely no rational for getting 7 negative votes, and a mere18 positive ones, on a welcome software update for iPad. Even if you require something more from the update, these negative voting patterns show a consistent percentage of vindictive voting or downright apple hatred and trolling. This makes for a very odious environment.
Why do apple users have to suffer through every dime a dozen troll who opens up look at how great my android/Sony/whatever device is threads? This supposed liberal attitude has wrecked this site, if I want to read apple bashing I ll go to engadget fank you very much.
Owwww! Applesupergeek is getting butt-hurt because someone voted "negative" on this thread!
So much hatred! Who will defend poor Apple?
Get a life.
Ugh, sorry, but that's horrendous. I'd really like to know what kind of thinking goes in to a design decision like that. No other PDF reader I've seen resets the zoom. Only iBooks.
My favorite: iRead PDF, the free spinoff of iAnnotate. One reason: horizontal scroll lock. You zoom in as much as possible, press the lock, and all you need to do is flick up and down. There's nothing better for reading PDF books. Especially if you're measuring the amount of finger work required.
pdf support still sucks the big one
Still no sticky zoom for pdf's? Until you can highlight pdfs and view them properly I'm not buying an ipad. Also, Apple should be making it simple to create epub files from within os x.
Still no sticky zoom for pdf's? Until you can highlight pdfs and view them properly I'm not buying an ipad. Also, Apple should be making it simple to create epub files from within os x.
Now all they need to do is make ibooks have enough books to be worth using over the amazon app.
Yep, I would buy all of Rick Steves' audio/video books in a minute if they would offer them through iBook.
Video support on the Kindle? That must work nicely.
I wish iBooks would copy Kindle App's inverse-color option, for better low-light reading. Reading iBooks in a room with no lights is like trying to read text off of a flashlight pointed in your face. Dimming it just makes it...dim. Contrast needs to stay high, just the colors need to the change: light text on dark background, please.
I wish iBooks would copy Kindle App's inverse-color option, for better low-light reading. Reading iBooks in a room with no lights is like trying to read text off of a flashlight pointed in your face. Dimming it just makes it...dim. Contrast needs to stay high, just the colors need to the change: light text on dark background, please.
I like and use the iBooks app, but I wish it'd use the entire screen like Stanza. Way more words per screen. As it is, the auto syncing of place/bookmarks between my iPhone and iPad is the only thing stopping me going back to Stanza.
I should add, I use only my own ebooks.
I should add, I use only my own ebooks.
Now if only they'd allow me to keep the graphical bookshelf in ALPHABETICAL ORDER by author, and NOT REARRANGE THEM WHEN RESYNCING WITH ITUNES.
Can you tell I'm annoyed? Sure, I can have them alphabetically in list view, but who wants that?
Can you tell I'm annoyed? Sure, I can have them alphabetically in list view, but who wants that?
I completely agree! I prefer the elegant iBook interface to Kindle's, but as I tend to do most of my reading in bed before I nod off for the night, I find it much easier on my eyes using the kindle app with the colors reversed when reading in a dark room.
Anyone else wish....
Does anyone else wish they could lock the screen like you can in the kindle app? I find it incredibly annoying that a small-ish body position tweak can change the position of the screen. I often lay in weird positions when my dogs are on the couch and I really hate it when the screen "insists" on switching to landscape. I don't like reading in landscape mode on my iphone, it's hard to flip the pages with my thumb
I like the changes...... I just wish I could lock the screen from within the app.
Does anyone else wish they could lock the screen like you can in the kindle app? I find it incredibly annoying that a small-ish body position tweak can change the position of the screen. I often lay in weird positions when my dogs are on the couch and I really hate it when the screen "insists" on switching to landscape. I don't like reading in landscape mode on my iphone, it's hard to flip the pages with my thumb
I like the changes...... I just wish I could lock the screen from within the app.
Nice! Apple is being very competitive with iBooks.
I hope that's sarcasm. Because iBooks isnt remotely close to being competitive. Kindle's library of books stomps the living crap outa lousy ibooks.
This is the reason I still use Stanza on my iPad. Do you think apple will ever give us a black background option? I honestly can't understand why they haven't yet.
Not quite the same, but under accessibilty settings u can change triple click home to White/Black toggle if u weren't aware.
Does anyone else wish they could lock the screen like you can in the kindle app? I find it incredibly annoying that a small-ish body position tweak can change the position of the screen. I often lay in weird positions when my dogs are on the couch and I really hate it when the screen "insists" on switching to landscape. I don't like reading in landscape mode on my iphone, it's hard to flip the pages with my thumb
I like the changes...... I just wish I could lock the screen from within the app.
iOS4 has that button to lock the screen in portrait orientation, so I guess Apple would consider an in-app button to be redundant. But I do wish I could lock the screen in landscape orientation as well. Come on Apple!!!!
iOS4 has that button to lock the screen in portrait orientation, so I guess Apple would consider an in-app button to be redundant. But I do wish I could lock the screen in landscape orientation as well. Come on Apple!!!!
Maybe he's on a 3G though. Iirc from the few days I used os4 on my old 3G, you don't get the iPod and lock controls on a 3G.
I "thought" this happened to me, but all I had to do was wipe down on the bookcase some and when it snapped back, there they were.
BTW... did you know that if are at the top of your bookcase and then pull down as much as possible, there is a hidden Apple logo?
I like the improvements, but I'll tell you what I HATE... I hate that when I update iBooks, all of the arranging that I've spent a lot of time on, all goes away and Apple willy-nilly rearranges all of my books again. HATE IT! And the crappy, we want your money aspect about it is that, all of the SAMPLE books get shot back up to the top of the bookcase in order to keep them in your face for better BUY-ME effect. Mainly it's the books that I own that I've kept together (Alice in Wonderland kept with Through the Looking Glass) that suddenly are several shelves apart. The worse is all 14 OZ books that I carefully, with the help of wikipedia, put in their release order. All F'D UP now.
I generally don't complain too much about Apple because they do a great job, but why they arrange my shelves certainly piss me off. I'll buy when I'm ready to buy, Apple!
I'm on an iphone 4, and I know I can lock the screen but I don't want to have to go to settings, lock the screen then remember to unlock it before doing anything else, I want it to be an "in app" thing; if the Kindle app can do it..... so can Apple's iBooks.
Really??? WTF, why wouldn't those controls work on a 3G? If that's true, that's really sh*ty of Apple to leave that out from the 3G.
True, it is annoying, I'm the same. I always read portrait but always type landscape so it's a bit of a ballache.
As for the 3G, kinda petty they didn't allow the lock controls, much like they didnt add the % batt life meter to the 3G. Not that I
care much now I've got a 4.
Edit: If I'm remembering correctly. Need a 3G owner to verify, quite likely I may be wrong.
I also had a bunch of PDF files on there and it wiped them out after installing the update. I guess I need to sync up.