iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favourite classics — day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favourite passages. Download books • Download best-sellers and classic books from the iBooks Store • Find fully illustrated books, including children's picture books, designed art books, photo books, cook books and more in the iBooks Store • Experience gorgeous full-screen Multi-Touch books designed for iPad. These books are filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos and more • Read a free sample of any book on the iBooks Store before making it a part of your permanent collection Great ways to read • Choose from seven beautiful fonts, three easy-to-read page colours and three useful page layouts — including Book, Full Screen and Scroll • iBooks beautifully renders text written in 18 different languages • Highlight your favourite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features • Share thoughts about your favourite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages or Mail • Find a word, character or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature • Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment • Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch — such as speaking the words on a given page • Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint iCloud features • Organise your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices • Keep your bookmarks, highlights, notes and your current page up to date everywhere using iCloud • See all your iBooks Store purchases in iCloud — right on your bookshelf with iOS 6 Supports open standards • iBooks also opens content published in the ePub and PDF formats • Add ePub and PDF documents to iTunes and sync them to iPhone, iPad or iPod touch • You can also add PDF documents from Mail to your iBooks PDF Collection Requirements • The iBooks Store is available in many countries. The selection of books in the iBooks Store may vary by country • Downloading from the iBooks Store or using iCloud features requires an Apple ID and Internet access • Support for books with Asian or right-to-left languages requires iOS 6 or later • All books created with iBooks Author can only be read with iBooks on iPad • Books created with iBooks Author require iOS 5 or later. iBooks Author 2 requires iOS 5.1 or later • Syncing books made with iBooks Author requires iTunes 10.5.3 or later • Adding books and PDFs from outside the iBooks Store to iBooks requires they be DRM-free and synced using iTunes 10.5.3 or later • Some PDF documents may not be compatible with iBooks