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note Before you purchase EPUB books online, make sure you know what
you're buying. Not every EPUB file will work with iBooks. Titles from
Kobo (www.kobobooks.com), for example, are EPUB formatted, but are
protected by Adobe DRM. (You can download the free Kobo app to read them.)
Other Ebook Readers
iBooks is the Apple-designed option, but of course a plethora of other
ebook reading applications are out there (such as a little Amazon.com
offering you may have heard of). Publishers are also writing iPad apps ,
not just book files, that do so much more than turn pages.
Kindle for iPad
When people think of Amazon's Kindle, they picture the hardware: slim
devices with grayscale E-Ink screens that store lots of ebooks and have
great battery life. What they often forget is that Amazon offers Kindle
for iPad, an app that brings the reading experience to the iPad. The app
offers a cleaner look than iBooks—it's not trying to replicate physical
books and pages (although page turns can curl like paper if you want the
added animation).
While iBooks can synchronize your place in a book (as well as bookmarks,
notes, and highlights) with another device, it can do so only with another
iOS device. Amazon, by contrast, offers Kindle software not only for the
Kindle devices and iOS devices, but also for Android, BlackBerry, and
Windows Phone 7 mobile platforms, plus Mac and Windows desktop
software. And when you stop reading a book on one device, your place is
marked in them all.
 
 
 
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