iBooks for iPhone [iTunes link] is now available. Like its big brother on the iPad, iBooks is an elegant, easy-to-use e-reading solution. While we haven’t had a ton of time with the pint-sized version of the app, our first impressions are very positive.
The iBooks interface is smartly designed, and pages and text are rendered extremely well. Simply put, other e-reader applications pale in comparison to iBooks. It’s only too bad that the selection isn’t as good as some of its rivals. The newest version of iBooks supports in-app PDF viewing, as well as ePub files.
Check out this excerpt from our longer iOS 4 Walkthrough video that shows off iBooks for iPhone and compares it head-on with the Kindle app. You can also take a look at the features in the gallery below.
What do you think of iBooks for iPhone? Will you use it to read books on your phone?
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Library Page
This is how the e-books in your collection are displayed. If you're getting Delicious Library flashbacks, you're not alone.
iBooks Store - Featured
Featured titles in the iBooks Store.
iBooks Store - Charts
Best sellers in both the iBooks Store and on the New York Times Best Seller list.
iBooks Store - Browse
You can browse titles by author.
Purchases
You can view your purchases from other devices and choose to download them to the device you are on.
iBooks - Reading
This gives you an overview of a title page.
iBooks - Reading
This is an example of a page with more dense text.
Word Selections
You can select words or passages and look them up in the dictionary, highlight them, make a note associated with the word or phrase and search the rest of the book for the same phrase or word.
iBooks Search
You can search the full text of your e-books, a great feature.
Brightness Settings
You can adjust the text, the brightness and the background color in iBooks.
Table of Contents
You can access a well-formatted table of contents directly from the menu options.
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Tags: e-books, e-reader, iBooks, iOS 4, iphone, iphone apps, Kindle