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iOS 16.4 Beta 2 Re-Adds Page Turning Animation to Apple Books
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I'd prefer that Apple come up with a way to let us read Kindle books in the Apple Books app.
If it's like the old function, it will turn the pages where you turn them, so it will be from the top if that's where you swipe.
And you could be sure that Amazon's lawyers would have problems with that. It would be nice, though.
The app is perfect for my collection of PDF and DRM-free files from some publishers that offer them. While I think it’s a shame Apple Books as a service never got anywhere (it was always going to be limited by Apple’s choices and a lack of a dedicated e-ink device along with mountainous competition).
I very much use the app and find it to be very useful for my needs. I hope Apple keep developing it and I welcome the return of the page curl feature as you can preview the next page and it brings back a bit of whimsy to the ebook reading experience.
But if you're Amazon and your goal is to sell as much of everything as possible, isn't it arguably a good idea to make Kindle content more accessible to everyone?
Not necessarily. Locking the customer in has a great value in itself. Like Apple, they are selling the ecosystem.
More options/competition are a GOOD thing. I can’t believe in this day and age folks are clamoring for less choice. I am glad Apple is still selling ebooks and I am very glad we now have the option to enable the page curl animation. More choices are always a GOOD thing.
Hells yes!
I had NO idea this had changed! Been working the grind and haven’t even touched books on my iPhone’s in months.
This is Skeuomorphism’s beautiful return and is needed. I love this function.
So many things. The way it presents your books is a complete disaster. It used to just simply be all your books on skeuomorphic shelves - whilst I’m not the biggest fan of skeuomorphism - it simply worked. Now it’s just a collection of PDF files, which are constantly updating and changing their covers from the covers you actually bought which means your collection is a complete mess. To make matters even worse, when you download PDF files, it flings them in with your books making things even messier. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, it’ll also fling in books in a series that you haven’t bought, but the thing is you may own the books already, but just from a different publisher meaning you end up with a bunch of placeholders for books you already own in a ‘collection’ that Apple creates with other books in that series which you do own. It also constantly reshuffles your books meaning you can never keep them in any order. It’s a complete shambles. It’s embarrassing. I don’t think you’d find an app so poorly constructed from a third party.
Figures that Apple would devote resources and energy to something as unimportant as changing the animation effect on turning the page but not on...y'know...making the app less buggy.
Respectfully, I couldn’t disagree more with the above post. Apple Books layout is a “million times” better than the kindle app. I used kindle for years. No more. I’ve repurchased many books just to never use the kindle app again. The library set up looks terrible compared to Apple Books. Every once in awhile I’ll run across a textbook that isn’t available on Apple Books, I contact the publisher and purchase the PDF, just to stay out of the Kindle app.
Now if they also give us
- a working sync between devices that ideally also remembers how you were ordering your bookshelf
- more fonts (Publico was a nice addition) or even better
- the option to use our own commercial fonts plus OTF-featuresfor really nice typography
- copying of at least a limited amount of text
… that would be much nicer than a page flip animation.
- a working sync between devices that ideally also remembers how you were ordering your bookshelf
- more fonts (Publico was a nice addition) or even better
- the option to use our own commercial fonts plus OTF-featuresfor really nice typography
- copying of at least a limited amount of text
… that would be much nicer than a page flip animation.
Good. I hate when Apple take away the fine details that used to make the OS feel solid. Subtle things like this lead to a more solid feel in a UI, thanks to easily trackable-by-eye transitions.
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I have not scanned the whole thread so sorry If Ive missed something, but I can still turn pages from the corner in books, you just use the corner to turn the page and that page turning animation as if the paper was curling over works as it always has.
Now bring back "time travel" from watchOS<4 to the Apple Watch, pls!
I love Apple Books. As someone working in the book sector, it's an important part of my workflow. I'd love to see a version of Apple Books running on a real e-reader with no backlight instead of an iPad. Or even better, an iPad with both backlight and e-ink. Is that possible at all? No chance, I guess, but dreaming is free.
Good. What's the point of putting the world's most powerful ARM processors into our phones if we aren't going to use them for things like this.
Very happy they did this. That one tiny feature is what made it my preferred ebook reader.
I've always wanted to try the e-ink Kindle. Reading on a regular LCD/OLED screen never quite 'works' for me. So far, paper is king. Audiobooks a close second.