In another instance where it would have been nice of Apple to publish more-complete release notes, we totally missed a significant change in the iBooks app until recently. Back in “Take Control’s ...

You know how Apple sometimes freaks out about protecting intellectual property, even disabling certain features to discourage piracy and push users to their own digital content stores? A good example ...

Amazon’s Kindle is the world’s most popular e-book reader, light, versatile and high-quality, the device has been refined and has helped many people to migrate from reading physical books to reading ...

Adam Engst at TidBITS details an important change in how iBooks handles .EPUB files opened directly on iOS: The practical upshot of this fix is that you can now transfer EPUB files into iBooks far ...

The latest version of iBooks (or possibly one of the previous versions -- we're not sure when this change went in) includes a helpful little update in it: iBooks now recognizes EPUB files, which means ...

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It used to be fairly simple to add e-books (of the epub format) to your iPad or iPhone via your Mac, using iTunes file sharing. You’d simply drag and drop the book into iTunes, connect your iOS device ...

This has been an interesting week. What was supposed to be just a weekend project turned into a week-long research project. Along the way, I got to make a bunch of new friends, learned a lot, and ...