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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Not everyone wants bells and whistles with their reading.
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Certainly....like I said people are welcome to simple...it's their choice.
However there is a big difference between "bells and whistles" and displaying properly. A simple UI that displayed properly would be much better than what they have now. {"display properly" means following the css formatting as created by the author/pubisher and conforms to the ePub specification}
iBooks does not display properly - although acceptably for those who don't know how a book is *supposed* to look - without extensive work-arounds. Take a well crafted epub that displays nicely on a sony or nook etc. and side load it into ibooks and compare the two side by side. Then take a non-DRMed iBooks file and try and display it on a sony or nook...and again compare the two.
The same file - using the same format (ePub) should display properly on any device. The fact that it doesn't is a whole other can of worms that has been talked about extensively in other threads and not really the point of my comment.
My point, as I said in my original post, was that: "Even with this latest update I find iBooks (app) to be woefully lacking in many areas. Those areas overshadow the few good things it does."