So, I made my first ever iBooks purchase in the form of the Steve Jobs biography. After reading about 100 pages, I've decided it's very difficult to read on my iPhone. Is there anyway I can read it as a PDF or some other format on my laptop?
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Re: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson iBooks
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Cause you know Apple is pushing millions of people away from their PHONES for an EREADER.
Agreed with the Kindle format being WAY more useful. I have an iPad, iPhone, laptop, desktop, and a Kindle. I can be reading on any of those devices, put that device down, pull the book up on another one, and continue reading at the same spot.
I bought a couple books from the iBooks app just to see if there was a benefit, and they look fine on my iPad - but really not significantly different from Kindles, and so much more limited with no support for any of my other devices other than the iPhone.
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Nothing official. I don't know if anyone has ever "hacked" the iBooks format or not though.
I bought a couple books from the iBooks app just to see if there was a benefit, and they look fine on my iPad - but really not significantly different from Kindles, and so much more limited with no support for any of my other devices other than the iPhone.
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Nothing official. I don't know if anyone has ever "hacked" the iBooks format or not though.
Or... wait for it... pushing people from iBooks Store to Amazon's Kindle Book Store.
Nothing "unofficial" either. Apple's iBooks "FairPlay" DRM has not been cracked. Sorry, OP, but your ebook is only readable on your phone or an iPad.
Ironically, I would start buying books from iBooks if the DRM *was* cracked. Right now, I'm buying books from Amazon, cracking the DRM, converting to epub, and reading them in the iBooks app on my iPhone and iPad. (I prefer the way books are formatted in iBooks app over how they appear in Kindle app.) If iBooks DRM could be cracked, I could skip the conversion process, and still read them with Stanza or other ebook readers on my desktop.