[rfog]

You are misunderstanding somethings here.

iPad Pro is great to read newspapers, magazines and other facsimile stuff. For example, I have scanned some first editions of some Jules Verne books and it a pleasure read them in the Pro (it was a pleasure do it in the Air). And I use to read Analog SFF and Asimov's from Magzter.

But. And there is a serious but, for plain text ebooks is a nightmare. As when ebook software passed from iPhone to iPad (in those legendary days, ahem), most applications only made it compatible with the new device. But they need to offer more than column because iPad was (is) a lot of wider than iPhone... I had a lot of complains about that with the app developers, and those thad didn't update, died (for example mobireader, that was a very good software in iPhone but bad in iPad).

And now the problem returns back, like the Empire. iPad Pro screen is too big for two column reading (even in portrait). If you wan read comfortably in a Pro, you need to have big margins. Now is time that reading applications allow more than two columns, even in portrait mode.

Or even to forgot the "book" metaphor and made great and imaginative things, like Marvin in their first times (now it is almost abandoned and even it hasn't been update to the iPad Pro). Things like left some space to make hand pencil annotations in one side, or left space to show some context information related to the page you are reading... For example, if the word "Moscow" appears, show some images of the city, or if appears a street, show images of that street, or treat to pair some texts with other texts (for example: this phrase is based in the famous novel of Dickens blah, blah, blah).

I know, I know, that requires a lot of semantic and IA investigations, but we need to start. If nobody starts, nobody will continue. Marvin started but stopped (Yes, I know Gerty and form me is an incredible piece of crap -my opinion).