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Night mode for iBooks. Four useful tips for iBooks users How to make one page in iBooks

In iOS 12, Apple has redesigned several system applications. One of them was the standard iBooks reader. The program received a new name - Books - and a number of new functions.

Apple Books – what is it?

This is Apple's most important book reading app. In it you can read purchased e-books, buy new ones and - for the first time in history, this has never happened before - listen to audiobooks.

The program “understands” files in ePub, PDF format and the proprietary (developed by Apple) IBA - a format for books created in proprietary application iBooks Author.

1. Use navigation

2. Take notes in the Book reader on iPhone and iPad

In the standard iPhone and iPad reader, you can create notes as you read and return to them at any time. This is a very convenient function for students and those who work with “large” files and complex texts.

To create a note, press and hold your finger on the first word of your future note. Next, select the entire desired fragment. When everything is ready, release your finger and select the options you want. For example, option Create a note will allow you to write down your thoughts under the highlighted text.

You can also search by notes. To do this, open the navigation menu (remember: touch your finger anywhere on the screen), click on the icon Content and select a tab Notes.

3. Highlight text

This process is very similar to adding notes. Click on the right word, hold your finger on the screen, and then select from the menu Select.

4. Bookmark the Books reader on iPhone and iPad

Another way to quickly return to what you read (although not as convenient) is bookmarks. To add a bookmark, open the navigation menu and select the bookmark icon in the top right corner.

After you add a bookmark, its icon will turn red.

5. Dictation

If right now you want to read rather than listen, and your document does not have an audio version, turn on Apple Dictation and the computer voice will read out all the information. Certainly, fiction It’s better not to subject yourself to such “torture”, but with educational materials, legal documents, etc. It is even possible to do this with information.

To enable dictation, select the desired piece of text and select the appropriate option in the menu that appears.

In case the option Pronounce missing from possible options, you need to enable the parameter Pronunciation on the way Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech.

6. Set up a reading display in the Books app on iPhone and iPad

Apple is aware that people have difficulty reading displays for long periods of time. That's why the Cupertino people are constantly adding to iOS new tools to combat eye fatigue, which, according to statistics, affects 9 out of 10 computer users. U Books There are six settings “per theme”:

Brightness. Use the slider to adjust the application to a brightness that is comfortable for your eyes.
Font size. Here you will have to decide what is best for you - to fit more text on the screen (but it will be smaller, and your eyes will strain more) or to “turn” the pages more often, but enjoy large text that is comfortable for the eyes.
Fonts. There are nine fonts available in the application - Original, Athelas, Charter, Georgia, Iowan, Palatino, San Francisco, Seravek and Times New Roman.
Background color. White color strains the eyes more, so Books There are also other background screensavers - in sepia, granite and black colors.
Automatic “Night” mode. When you activate it (it's already on by default) in the evening, the iPhone will automatically change the “harsh” blue colors on the screen to softer yellow shades.
Scroll. Why swipe books when you can read them like web pages - by scrolling down? :).

These settings are accessed from the navigation menu (icon with letters "aA").

7. Audiobooks with Siri

Books are tightly integrated with Siri, so you can easily ask your personal assistant to play an audiobook on any device.

8. Content synchronization

What does this mean? That all the books you are reading or have read will be available on all your devices - from where you finished reading, with all bookmarks, text highlights and other changes. Synchronization is carried out through Apple’s proprietary cloud service – iCloud. To enable it, on all devices open Settings, click on your icon account, select iCloud and turn on the switch next to the inscriptions iCloud Drive And Books.

Note: If you only want to sync books purchased from the Apple store and not , don't activate iCloud Drive.

This guide covers iOS 8 features for iPhone 4S/5/5c/5s/6 and 6 Plus.

Download books from the iBooks Store. In iBooks, use the buttons at the bottom of the screen to sign in to the iBooks Store. Tap Featured to see what's new,
or the “Top Charts” section to see the most popular books. To find a specific book, tap the Search section.

Opening a book. Click the book you want to read. If you don't see it on your shelf, swipe left or right to view other collections.

Closing the book. Tap the Library icon or pinch your fingers on a book page. Enlarging the image. Double-tap the image. In some books, you can press and hold an image to bring up a magnifying glass that you can use to view the image.

Go to a specific page. Use page navigation controls at the bottom of the screen. You can also tap and enter the page number, then tap the page number in the search results.

View the definition of a word. Double-tap a word, then tap Define from the menu that appears. Definitions are not available for all languages.

Saving reading location. Tap to add a bookmark; tap again to delete the bookmark. You can add multiple bookmarks; To view all your bookmarks, tap , then tap Bookmarks. When you close a book, you don't need to add a bookmark because iBooks remembers where you left off.

Saving interesting fragments. Some books allow you to highlight text and add notes. To highlight a selection, tap and hold a word, then move it to indicate the selection. To create a note, double-tap a word, then drag the grab handles to adjust the selection, and tap Note from the menu that appears. To view all highlights and notes, tap , then tap Notes.

Send interesting snippets to other users. Tap the highlighted text, then select from the menu that appears. If the book was downloaded from the iBooks Store, a link to the book is added automatically. (Send in chunks is not available in all regions.)

Change appearance books. Some books allow you to change the font, font size, and page color. (Tap .) You can also change the layout and alignment in Settings > iBooks. These settings apply to all books that support them.

Change brightness. Click . If not displayed, first tap .

Reduce screen brightness in low light conditions. Turn on Auto Night mode to change the look of your bookshelf and the color and brightness of pages when you use iBooks in low-light conditions. (Not all books support Night mode.)

Organizing books

Browse books by title or cover. Click or .

Organizing books into collections. Click Select and select books to move to the collection. To create or edit collections, tap the name of the current collection (at the top of the screen). Some built-in collections, such as PDF, cannot be renamed or deleted.

Changing the order of books. When viewing books in a collection by cover, touch and hold a cover, then drag it to a new location. When browsing books
Sort the list by name using the buttons at the top of the screen. The “All Books” collection is organized automatically. If you want to organize books manually, switch to another collection.

Search for a book. Pull down to open the search field at the top of the screen. The search is performed by title and author.

Hide purchased but not downloaded books. Tap the collection name (at the top of the screen) and turn on Hide iCloud Books.

Reading PDF

PDF synchronization. On your Mac, add the PDF to iBooks for OS X, open iTunes, select the PDF, and sync. In iTunes on a Windows computer, choose File > Add to Library, select PDF, and sync. For more information about syncing, see iTunes Help.

Adding a PDF attachment from an email to iBooks. Open the message email, then touch and hold the PDF attachment. Select "Open in iBooks" from the menu that appears.

Print PDF. With the PDF open, tap , then select Print. An AirPrint-enabled printer is required. Detailed information For AirPrint, see AirPrint Technology.

Send PDF by email. With the PDF open, tap , then select Email.

iBooks Settings

Go to Settings > iBooks. The following actions are available:

Synchronize collections and bookmarks (including notes and information about the current page) with other devices.
Display online book content. Some books may access video or audio material stored on the Web.
Changes the direction pages turn when you touch the left margin.

iBooks is a pre-installed reading platform e-books and listening to artistic and contemporary works on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The “reader” first appeared in mid-2010 and since then has become the main, but not the only, source of inspiration for owners of Apple equipment. Main idea iBooks - speeding up and simplifying the search for literature, providing access to a synchronized and daily updated library of books, and at the same time solving the problem of storing works in audio format: from now on additional tools will not be needed - you can listen, read and develop without leaving the cash register.

Additional benefits of iBooks:

Frequent updates. Although the developers from Apple do not change the traditional functionality, they do not lag behind design trends and always offer new and interesting solutions, such as a dark theme, gesture support and an intuitive catalog where it is impossible to get lost;
Available formats: ePub, PDF and iBooks (an exclusive extension from Apple designed to expand the standard capabilities of books and “compress” information without loss of quality). It seems like there are no surprises, but the result is impressive!
Automatic night mode. If you really want to delve deeper into reading late at night, then an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch will help you create the perfect atmosphere and at the same time reduce eye strain. If desired, the setting can be removed manually, or automatically if there is enough light around;
Working with text. The idea is standard - notes and quotes. But the incarnation is again ahead of its time. Selected sections of text can be marked with different colors and sent to friends via social networks(supported by Facebook) and cover with additional notes, which are automatically synchronized between Apple equipment (more on how this happens - later in the instructions).

Among the disadvantages of iBooks is the inflated price (although there are really a lot of free copies of books) and the availability of publications only on English. And, if adding money for a quality purchase is not difficult in some cases, then dealing with misunderstanding of foreign words is much more difficult - you will have to spend hours reaching for the dictionary and slowly going crazy...

How to sync iBooks

There is no separate function responsible for synchronizing iBooks on iPhone and iPad and computers with MacOS. And the point is not the laziness of Apple developers, but the invisibility of such mechanisms. All you have to do is log in to the store and at the same time read iBooks from your existing Apple ID account on your iPhone and iPad and that’s it - the system will remember recent downloads, figure out which pages the reading ended on, and even transfer each note to the device where current moment there was a desire to be inspired by the works of classics or modern publications. The main thing to remember is one Apple ID account for each device and the information will remain in place - and no more experiments.

How books are downloaded

No surprises:

Open iBooks from a shortcut on your desktop (or download the e-reader from the App Store if the tool was inadvertently deleted);
Explore the available selection and immediately download the literature you like, or use the search or recommendations;
Once the download is complete, go to the “Library” section and get ready to read. Information about the work done will immediately appear on other devices.

Working with iBooks is a real pleasure. There are no difficulties either when you first get acquainted with the system, or when synchronizing or exchanging information with other smartphones and tablets that are used with the same Apple ID.

To read eBooks on your iPhone, download the free iBooks app from the AppStore. You can use it to read books downloaded to your iPhone from your computer, download free or paid e-books from online stores, or read PDF files copied from your computer. If you have already downloaded several e-books, you can read them (as described below). If you don't have books in iBooks, see the section for instructions on finding and downloading e-books.

Press the Home button. The home screen will open.
Go to the home screen containing the iBooks icon. For example, place your finger on the screen and slide left to scroll through one or more screens.
Click iBooks. The Books window will open.
- A— If the Books button doesn't appear on the iBooks screen (top center of the screen), click the other buttons that appear there. After opening the Collections screen, click Books to open the Collections screen.
Select the book you want to open. The book will open. When you open a book, the iBooks app displays the last page you opened. When you open a book for the first time, iBooks displays its cover or first page.
Tap anywhere on the screen to hide the controls. The controls will disappear. To make the controls appear again, tap anywhere on the screen.
Click on the screen on the right side of the page to go to the next one. To display the previous page, click on the left side of an open page, or click on the left side of the page and slide it to the right.

To look at the next page, but not go to it, click on right side open page and drag it to the left. You can then either turn the page or release your finger (the page will return to its original position).
To instantly jump to another part of the book, click the Table of contents icon. You can also use the indicator at the bottom of the screen.
In the table of contents, select the part of the book you want to display on screen.

To search the text of a book, click the Search icon.
Enter text in the search box.
Select the search result you want to see.

How to change the font in iBooks?

Tap the screen to display controls and then the Font Settings button. In the Font Settings dialog box, select Small or Large to change the font size. Click "Fonts" and select the font you want to use from the list that appears. After that, click on the screen outside the dialog box to close it.

Apple's iBooks e-reader is good because it's free, easy on the eyes, and integrated with the iBook Store. But there are also plenty of shortcomings, because Cupertino deliberately did not create a product that was impeccable in terms of functionality, so as not to spoil the mood of competitors, whose programs in the App Store in this case would no longer be purchased at all. One of these disadvantages is the lack of the so-called. night mode.

Night mode - displays light text on a dark background. It is believed that it is more convenient (and less harmful to the eyes) to read books in the dark. Whether this is true or not, ask your ophthalmologist during your next visit, and we’ll talk about how you can compensate for the lack of night mode in iBooks.

Without any tricks, you can turn a page from a book like this:

like this:

How to do this? Very simple:

go to Settings on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
go to menu "Basic-Accessibility-3-click Home"
select item "On/Off" "White on black":

Now by triple press Home All colors on the screen will be inverted, and you can simulate night mode not only in iBooks, but also in any other application. The main thing is to train your thumb, because triple pressing with an interval of a few tenths of a second is not always easy;)