What book are you reading?
- Thread starter SweetPoison
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iPadCharlie
iPF Noob
Kindle is Amazon's electronic publication platform. If you buy a book from Amazon, you can only read it on one of their Kindle devices, the Kindle for PC program or on an Apple mobile device through the Kindle app. The Kindle app is not a "universal" reader. It is only for stuff you get from Amazon.
Likewise, the other two major "brick & mortar" bookstores (Barnes&Noble and Borders), have their own iPad apps that work in essentially the same way.
With the iBooks app, not only can you read the stuff you buy from Apple, but you can also use it to read "generic" ePubs in addition to PDF's. Unfortunately, the depth of their content in terms of availability stinks... at least compared to Amazon.
The best (IMHO) "generic" reader is called GoodReader... and it really is! It isn't free like the other reading apps. It costs a whopping 99¢! There are links within the app to content providers, both paid and free, but it will also read just about any public domain format out there. Another advantage to GoodReader is that you can store your stuff on a "cloud" like DropBox. And yet another advantage is that you can transfer files directly to your iPad without syncing (but you do have to do it through the iTunes program on your PC) or the method I used most often is through your home WiFi network thereby bypassing iTunes altogether.
Clear as mud, eh?
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Fred Spiers's "The Structure of Big History."
Amazon.com: The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today (9789053562208): Fred Spier: Books
Amazon.com: The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today (9789053562208): Fred Spier: Books
Flinthills
iPF Noob
I just finished the new Dracula book/app. I read the book over the weekend and still have not figured out all the clues. Holding the iPad up to a mirror so I could read the text is so cool!
I was reading "Neuromancer" by William Gibson, as I was feeling nostalgic after reading his lastest ("Zero History"). My iPad somehow ate it last night - I opened iBooks to check the iPad user guide to see if I can start watching a video during download (no answer, btw) and iBooks crashed; when I brought it back up, my library was gone. I'm noticing the iPad gets buggy as the limits of its storage capacity approaches (I've got 569MB left on my 64GB).
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iVan
iPF Noob
Noticed a somewhat similar quirk. I was out on 3G and the first time I tried to open a book all of those I had purchased from Apple were absent.
It's as if the iPad asked a permission from Apple's server to let me use those books. Since I was in an unfamiliar pattern of activity it assumed something was wrong and shut out access. Just a feeling...
It's as if the iPad asked a permission from Apple's server to let me use those books. Since I was in an unfamiliar pattern of activity it assumed something was wrong and shut out access. Just a feeling...
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SweetPoison
iPF Noob
I finally started mine!! SOooooooooooo good!
The Bible itself or the history of how it was written and such?
iVan
iPF Noob
Oh! That Millenium series is great, the kind of books you hate to put down...
I've read the three in three weekends. Nailbiters of this kind are rare indeed.
