Apple MA712LL User Guide - Page 123

Reading books, Sync an ePub book or PDF to iPhone, Read a book while lying down

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Sync an ePub book or PDF to iPhone: In iTunes on your computer, choose File > Add to Library and select the file. Select the book or PDF in the Books pane in iTunes, and then sync. To quickly add a PDF to iBooks without syncing, email the PDF to yourself from your computer. Open the email message on iPhone, then tap the PDF attachement and choose "Open in iBooks" from the menu that appears. Reading books Reading a book is easy. Go to the bookshelf and tap the book you want to read. If you don't see the book you're looking for, tap the name of the current collection at the top of the screen to go to other collections. Add a bookmark. Tap to play. Go to a different page. Read a book while lying down: Use the portrait orientation lock to prevent iPhone from rotating the screen when you rotate iPhone. See "Viewing in portrait or landscape orientation" on page 21. Turn pages Go to the table of contents Add or remove a bookmark Add, remove, or edit a highlight Tap near the right or left margin of a page, or flick left or right. To change the direction the page turns when you tap the left margin, go to Settings > iBooks. Tap near the center of the current page to show the controls, then tap . Tap an entry to jump to that location, or tap Resume to return to the current page. Tap the ribbon button to set a bookmark. You can have multiple bookmarks. To remove a bookmark, tap it. You don't need to set a bookmark when you close a book, because iBooks remembers where you left off and returns there when you open the book again. Touch and hold any word until it's selected. Use the grab points to adjust the selection, then tap Highlight. To remove a highlight, tap the highlighted text, then tap Remove Highlight. To change the color of a highlight, tap the highlighted text, then tap Colors and select a color from the menu. Chapter 30 iBooks 123

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Sync an ePub book or PDF to iPhone:
In iTunes on your computer, choose File > Add to Library
and select the file. Select the book or PDF in the Books pane in iTunes, and then sync.
To quickly add a PDF to iBooks without syncing, email the PDF to yourself from your computer.
Open the email message on iPhone, then tap the PDF attachement and choose “Open in iBooks”
from the menu that appears.
Reading books
Reading a book is easy. Go to the bookshelf and tap the book you want to read. If you don’t see
the book you’re looking for, tap the name of the current collection at the top of the screen to go
to other collections.
Tap to play.
Go to a different page.
Add a bookmark.
Read a book while lying down:
Use the portrait orientation lock to prevent iPhone from rotating
the screen when you rotate iPhone. See “Viewing in portrait or landscape orientation” on page 21.
Turn pages
Tap near the right or left margin of a page, or flick left or right. To
change the direction the page turns when you tap the left margin,
go to Settings > iBooks.
Go to the table of contents
Tap near the center of the current page to show the controls, then tap
. Tap an entry to jump to that location, or tap Resume to return to the
current page.
Add or remove a bookmark
Tap the ribbon button to set a bookmark. You can have multiple bookmarks.
To remove a bookmark, tap it.
You don’t need to set a bookmark when you close a book, because
iBooks remembers where you left off and returns there when you open
the book again.
Add, remove, or edit a highlight
Touch and hold any word until it’s selected. Use the grab points to adjust
the selection, then tap Highlight.
To remove a highlight,
tap the highlighted text, then tap Remove Highlight.
To change the color of a highlight,
tap the highlighted text, then tap Colors
and select a color from the menu.
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