

Ipad book loader for mac pdf#
iBooks also reads books without DRM in ePub and PDF format, though they do not sync across your devices. The interface is well-designed and easy to use, with options for font size and style, searching, bookmarking, highlights, notes, themes, an in-app dictionary, brightness controls, and the app syncs your purchased books with every device using your Apple ID (although they can only be read on your iPhone or iPad). The release of iBooks Author and Apple’s push for electronic textbooks further increased iBooks’ utility, as many of the store’s offerings contain enhanced media and pictures that are optimized for the iPad. It is also one of the only apps that still supports purchasing a new e-book from within the app using your iTunes account so you can begin reading it immediately (third party booksellers removed this feature when Apple began enforcing the traditional iOS revenue model across all apps). IBooks is Apple’s e-bookstore, and as such offers some impressive iPad-specific features. Bluefire also links to the Feedbooks online store so that users can download and read books (mostly public domain books) without leaving the app.

This support even extends to library books, although importing them requires a few more steps than the official library partner app, Overdrive. For readers, the killer feature is built-in support for Adobe DRM, which means that, after logging in with an Adobe ID, all books in ePub or PDF format that use Adobe DRM can be read in Bluefire regardless of where they were purchased. The app is polished, easy to use and navigate, and is fully customizable- users can modify aspects of the interface (i.e., set actions for page turning, set brightness, sort books, or lock orientation) and the reading experience (i.e., set background color, margins, text size and color, or use the publisher’s defaults). Bluefire Reader is an unbranded version of the software platform on which a number of booksellers have built their apps, and it’s easy to see why they chose it.
