Apple rolls out iBooks app for iPhone, iPod touch

It's not just multitasking apps that are hitting the App Store to coincide with the release of iOS 4.0 -- Apple has also just rolled out version 1.1 of its iBooks app, which is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch in addition to the iPad (officially, this time). As previously announced, the app now also supports PDF viewing, and boasts a range of other more minor improvements, including new ways to bookmark (complete with syncing across devices), your choice of white or sepia colored pages, more font options and, of course, "greater stability and better performance."

[Yoshi1080 Posted Jun 21st 2010 3:51PM]

Why do I need iOS4 to read eBooks? I don’t want to abandon my iPhone Classic just yet! I guess I’ll have to stick with Stanza a little longer ... This requirement is really ridiculous.

[Scape3d Posted Jun 21st 2010 3:54PM]

iPhone......*yawn*

[rmbrown09 Posted Jun 21st 2010 3:59PM]

Should have jut been titled,
"Apple Rolls Out One More Thing That Will Dominate The Whole Market It's Aimed At.. E-Books"

[Mobile Broadband Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:00PM]

Just installed this on my iPhone - I've tried searching for the books I want without any luck! Very disapointed!

Does anyone know when this will work properly in the UK?

http://delldiscount.experts.uk.com

[patp Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:03PM]

@hated one yeah it does.... for a very long time actually

[KopparbergDave Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:10PM]

Hmmm, is this in the UK App Store yet..? I just spent the good hour and a half to download and install on my phone (too much backing up and restoring for my liking but suppose it has to be done) and still I cannot find this in the App Store, either on my phone or from the iTunes Store.

What gives?

[KopparbergDave Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:11PM]

@KopparbergDave Typical, just searched again and it's there now. Grr Apple making me look stupid :p

[Marko Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:10PM]

no luck with iphone 2g /: requires iphone os 3.2 (eh? is there such thing?)

[barry99705 Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:35PM]

@Marko Not for you. Or people with the first gen iPod touch.

[Keanu Reeves Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:42PM]

@Marko Or iPhone 3g with os 3.1.3. N no i'm not gonna trade my jailbroken-multitasking function with Winnie the Pooh!!!

[qrius Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:12PM]

"No one reads anymore"

-Steve Jobs

[prepresspete Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:17PM]

Does the iPhone/iPod version also have the built-in dictionary that the iPad version has?

[Finalcutnerd Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:23PM]

Reading a book with 3.5 inch screen will ruin your eye sights. I don't read that many books so I'm satisfied with free books at my local library.

[Evoss Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:25PM]

ENGADGED !!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU ARE TOO MUCH OBSESSED WITH APPLE COMPANY AND IPHONE GRRRRRRRRRRRR

[creezy8188 Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:34PM]

@Evoss Then go to another site? Why voice ur opinion if it won't change anything...news is news to me

[Tombio Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:38PM]

Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven rocks!

[bravadomizzou Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:48PM]

i cant open PDFs!!! o.O. and instead of the header being a toggle between books and pdfs like the pic in the story mine just says iBooks

[Anastasia Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:00PM]

@bravadomizzou just drop your pdf in iTunes, Books section then sycronise your device.

[xstephx Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:53PM]

Who would want to read a whole book on a 3.5 inch screen ?

[kabloink Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:27PM]

@xstephx I use to read them off my old Handspring Visor for years. Though, it used a reflective screen which was easy on the eyes. I couldn't imagine reading it off a small back-lit screen.

[alexwilks88 Posted Jun 21st 2010 4:54PM]

I'd still much rather have the Kindle app on the basis that it doesn't lock my content into one set of devices. The lesser of two DRM-induced evils for sure.

[Saber Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:00PM]

What's the true name of the App? I sure as hell don't see on the App Store as "iBooks"

[Maybach Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:11PM]

@Saber It is there

[Maybach Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:10PM]

I don't have the PDF option on mine, but I haven't synced with iTunes since installing iBooks so that's probably why.

You might think reading books on your phone is silly, but it really isn't that bad, especially when it also syncs with the iPad

[beheybirder Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:19PM]

Apple changed the way iBook's dictionary worked. Before if the ebook language was undefined, it defaulted to English. Now, the dictionary fails. Sucks for a lot of user created epubs that never used this field.

[HughsMind Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:38PM]

for some reason i did the update on my I-pad but still i have no PDF support.

[Vakarian Posted Jun 21st 2010 5:52PM]

Is it just me or does it run like crap on iPhone 3g?

[mas3423 Posted Jun 21st 2010 6:07PM]

where is the ibook app. doesnt seem like its on the app store?

[jackie2828 Posted Jun 21st 2010 6:42PM]

Fed Ex says my iphone 4 arrived on US soil ! its in Anchorage AK



SHENZHEN CN ( Origin of the shipment )

via ..... LANTAU ISLAND HK, current status its in USA through tracking info.

[tamahome02000 Posted Jun 21st 2010 8:36PM]

Large books in the iBook are pretty painful. I have a free one called 'Union of Renegades'. You pretty much can't do anything until the page numbers appear at the bottom. With the font I picked, it ended up being 3000 pages (1000 on the iPad).

[alvinkyen Posted Jun 21st 2010 8:41PM]

my iBook did not come with Winnie the Pooh!

[someToast Posted Jun 21st 2010 9:06PM]

@alvinkyen It's a free download from the iBooks' store. Look under Charts > Top Free. It's #1.

[Sax25 Posted Jun 21st 2010 8:47PM]

Why on earth are us 2G users being left out of iBooks? When I go to download it from the US iTunes store, it states that I need to have OS 3.2 installed - well how can I when that isn't being offered?

We have already been locked out of iOS 4 so at least give iBooks for crying out loud Apple! You don't need an A4 chip to read an ebook and a PDF.. cut us 2G users some slack!

[OYangBen Posted Jun 22nd 2010 12:37AM]

My iPhone 2G died

[smashthepinata Posted Jun 22nd 2010 7:39AM]

iBooks is painfully slow on my 3G, anyone else experiencing it too?

[summer77 Posted Jun 23rd 2010 2:28AM]

Who care??? I care.
never mind. I only enjoy it.
I'm wait for iphone 4 for a long time.
the additional ibook is my favorite.
I can't wait to buy it right now even if I have no enough money.
And more iphone detials in this iphone spot( http://www.ifunia.com/iphone-column/index.html) that I would visited everyday. Somethings you want to know, I guess.

iBooks 1.1 with PDF support for iPad , so I can enjoy it with my ipad.