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Old 10-31-2010, 02:46 AM   #1
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Is there any such thing as documentation for iBooks?

I hear one can do things like change fonts and other configuration in iBooks, but I'm obviously pretty close to the village idiot today, because I cannot find how to get into configuration. I have tried general device settings, which wasn't useful. Web searching fails to reveal anything that approximates to a user manual.
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Old 10-31-2010, 03:18 AM   #2
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Download any epub book and open it.
Single tap on center, you should see: Library, bullet-list icon, brightness icon, aA, magnifier, bookmark.

Is that hard ? I think you are just not familiar with your iDevice.
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I didn't find iBooks very intuitive to start with either.

There's an iPod touch user guide which has a section on iBooks:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/...User_Guide.pdf

Apple also has a very basic iBooks FAQ on their website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4059

There are some walkthroughs on youtube too that might be helpful.
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Download any epub book and open it.
Single tap on center, you should see: Library, bullet-list icon, brightness icon, aA, magnifier, bookmark.

Is that hard ? I think you are just not familiar with your iDevice.
As I am the first to admit . I just got the thing Friday, and hadn't previously had much chance to play with it. That single tap idea (which I apparently never thought to try, not knowing much about iOS at all) got me what I needed. Many thanks.

(I'm pretty bright in other areas, just at the base of the learning curve with iOS apps.)
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Old 10-31-2010, 10:15 PM   #5
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The iPad user guide has ten pages about iBooks...probably what you are looking for.
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The iPad user guide has ten pages about iBooks...probably what you are looking for.
Except that I don't have an iPad.
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Strange.. I felt that iBooks was so intuitive when I started using it.. At the level of "How can it be otherwise?"..
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Except that I don't have an iPad.
I just went on the Apple web site, downloaded the iPod touch user manual...and it has a section about ibooks
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