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iBooks gets an update for iPhone/iPad

Apple's e-book reader for iOS, iBooks, received an update today to version 1.2.1.

The update provides a few very important changes. The first, and perhaps the most welcome change, is that stability and performance of the app has been improved. I was able to verify this in many places -- just waiting for books to appear on the iBooks bookshelves used to take about 20 seconds on my iPhone 4, and that time has been reduced to about 5 seconds. Books also seem to open faster, and there's no lag when swiping through pages.

All of the previous updates listed in the update notes were there in version 1.2, including the availability of illustrated books, creating personal Collections, printing PDF documents and notes via AirPrint and automatic hyphenation of documents.

The update can be installed immediately from the App Store app on your favorite iOS devices.



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Apple's e-book reader for iOS, iBooks, received an update today to version 1.2.1. The update provides a few very important changes. The...
 

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John.B

Can we make the virtual page edges on either side reflect how far we actually are into the book?

February 10 2011 at 12:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mortonja

I do almost all my reading at night so without white text on black iBooks is a FAIL. Try Stanza or Kindle instead.

February 09 2011 at 10:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dasPathos

i want to save or email my highlights and notes!

February 09 2011 at 8:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gilles

Also, I'd like to be able to search by language, and by publisher, in iBookstore.

February 09 2011 at 7:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gilles

What I'd like is the possibility to delete a book from the "Bought" list and the ability to put a book anywhere on the shelves.

February 09 2011 at 7:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Charli

Or what about adding keywords and sorting books into as many collections as you want. Say like if I want my Hary Potter books in by the author AND fantasy AND kids books AND whatever,

February 09 2011 at 9:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mr Lizard

That's weird. That's the App Store, yet the title bar says iTunes Store.

February 09 2011 at 6:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rackley

I wish Apple would ADD a feature that most other ereaders have. The ability to change from Day (black text on white background) to Night mode (white text on black background).

Currently you can change the entire iphone format to reverse black (which sucks) but you can't change the iBook app to white text on black. All the other ereaders offer this feature.

I frequently read at night in almost total darkness and even the ability to dim the white screen down isn't nearly good enough to avoid eye strain. Pleassse offer this feature.

Thanks

February 09 2011 at 5:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Alice Bevan-McGregor

There's a reason I have the inverse display accessibility feature set as the "triple-home-click" action, but yeah, they added sepia (yay!) but not inverse.

I'm more waiting for some ability to get notes printed (or otherwise synced' out) from ePub files. No reason why you can't print sections of an unprotected ePub file, seriously, Apple. >:(

Without epub annotation extraction (by any reasonable method, and hacking a backed-up sqlite file isn't reasonable) iBooks is useless for one who proof reads pre-release books.

February 10 2011 at 5:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
frank

awesome. a welcome update!

February 09 2011 at 4:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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