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If you want to change the fonts, tap the Fonts button and then tap Fonts and the font style you want
to switch to. Your choices at this time are Athelas, Charter, Georgia, Iowan, Palatino, Seravek, and
Times New Roman. We don't necessarily expect you to know what these look like just by the font
names — fortunately, you get to examine the change right before your eyes. A check mark indicates
the currently selected font style.
To change the page color, tap Themes and pick White (the default), Sepia, or Night. As we mention
earlier, while you're there, you can tap the Full Screen button if you want more of the content to
stretch out across the entire page, or scroll if you want your content to operate like a digital scroll.
Searching inside and outside a book
If you want to find a passage in a book but just can't remember where it is, try searching for it.
Here's how:
1. Tap the magnifying glass Search icon to enter a search word(s) or page number on the
virtual keyboard that slides up from the bottom.
All the occurrences in the topic turn up in a window under the Search icon, complete with a
few lines of text and a page citation.
2. Tap one of the items to jump to that portion of the book.
The words you were searching for are highlighted on that page.
You can also search the web (via Google) or the Wikipedia online encyclopedia by using the corres-
ponding buttons at the bottom of the search results. If you do so, the iBooks app closes, and the Sa-
fari browser fires up Google or Wikipedia, with your search term already entered.
If you search Google or Wikipedia in this fashion, you are, for the moment, leaving
the iBooks application and opening Safari. To return to the topic you're reading, you must re-
turn to the app, which is still open and running in the background. Fortunately, you're brought
back to the page in the topic where you left off. And Google is still the search choice through
iBooks, even if you selected another search engine in Safari.
Shopping for E-Books
We love browsing in a physical bookstore. But the experience of browsing Apple's iBooks Store, al-
though certainly different, is equally pleasurable. Apple makes it a cinch to search for books you
want to read, and even lets you peruse a sample prior to parting with your hard-earned dollars. To
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