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TUAW reader braintrust: Filling up your iBookShelf

by Erica Sadun (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Let's face it. iBook offerings are, at least for the moment, pretty limited. They're also on the slightly pricey side for anyone who emptied their piggy bank on a new iPad. Even those public libraries that offer ePub lending aren't set up to make those titles available for iPad reading. You ...

iPad 101: User Guides and other helpful resources

by Erica Sadun (Apr 4th, 2010)

You've bought your iPad. Congratulations! So are you ready to learn all the ways you can get the most from your new purchase? Here's a quick run-down of some indispensable resources as you're getting up to speed with your new purchase. Read the manuals: The iPad User Guide (pdf) provides an ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: How can I convert my pdfs to ePub?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 2nd, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, With the release of the iPad and as a grad student with a stock pile of PDF's of review books, whats the best, free-est option for converting them into ePub format for the iPad. Kisses & Snuggles, Your nephew Will ...

iBooks app now available in App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 2nd, 2010)

The app's page also states that only the ePub format is supported and to add ePub books from outside of the iBookstore to the iBooks app, they must be DRM-free and synced to the iPad using iTunes 9.1 or later. The iBooks app is free. I think I just heard Jeff Bezos shaking in his reading jacket. ...

Project Gutenberg books will work on the iPad

by Chris Rawson (Mar 23rd, 2010)

If you don't already know about Project Gutenberg, you should. The site has over 30,000 free ebooks, most of them classics whose copyrights have lapsed. The site includes big-name titles from big-name authors, representing everyone from Dante Alighieri to H.G. Wells. The site's free digital ebooks ...

Apple forces Stanza to nix USB book sharing

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 2nd, 2010)

Those who enjoy USB book sharing their ePub and eReader files in the current version of Stanza [iTunes link] will want to avoid the 2.1 version of the software, currently being distributed in the App Store. The update notes reveal that Apple apparently ordered Lexcycle to remove the USB sharing ...

All about EPUB, the ebook standard for Apple's iBookstore

by Steven Sande (Jan 31st, 2010)

Overlooked in much of the hype about the iPad announcement earlier in the week was a comment by Steve Jobs in the Keynote presentation where he mentioned that the iBooks app for iPad would take advantage of the popular EPUB format for electronic books. Since we're all going to get a lot more ...