Adam Kos The Apple Books app, or Apple Books, and prior to iOS 12 and macOS Mojave iBooks, lets you delve into the best books and audiobooks right on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or even Apple Watch and Mac, of course. But the company does not pay any attention to the application, does not update it or further promote it. At the same time, this is a title with really great potential.
The reason is quite simple. Even though many thought that the global pandemic was over with the summer, unfortunately the opposite is true and we are all closing up at home again. However, video streaming services do not have time to churn out new content, so it is not out of the question to reach for a book. There are quite a lot of applications offering the possibility of digital reading, but Apple Books have a clear advantage in that they are from Apple and that they offer both classic books and audiobooks. And as a bonus, they throw in all your PDFs.
At the same time, the application as such is not stupid, because it provides a lot of functions. It allows you to adjust the font size, page background color, brightness, write down notes or create bookmarks, or just highlight the text and then share it, if you want, you can also change the appearance of the book. And then there's another interesting thing in the form of setting reading goals and displaying your reading streaks and records.
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When you look at the official website Apple support, you will find help in solving difficulties and finding answers to your possible questions not only about the hardware, but also about the company's services. But there is only Music and TV. Not a word about books, even though the company offers them as well separate page, it just doesn't show it properly.
So there are two explanations - either Apple no longer believes in this platform and is letting it slowly die, or it is planning a major change and does not want to unnecessarily draw attention to the possible limitations of the previous version. Since this year we have seen big changes in the field of consumption of podcast content, perhaps the company is preparing a revolution in reading books for next year.
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It would make sense especially in support of other company services. In its Apple TV, it also draws on world literature, such as in the Foundation series. And it would be absolutely ideal to connect Apple TV+ with Apple Books in that one title redirects users from book to series and vice versa. Without searching and unnecessary fussing over details, we would have everything within easy reach. And that's what we want from the entire Apple ecosystem.
In the beginning, I used to buy eBooks at the apple store, but the incompatibility with the world of eBooks, i.e. the inability to use the reader and the Caliber app, as well as the way Books were treated compared to iTunes, definitely discouraged me from buying books from Apple, and your article actually reassured me that I am far from alone . Reading books on iPhones and iPads is an unsuitable substitute for continuous and longer reading. I just miss the colorful pictures on the readers. The solution could be a reader from Apple with the possibility of cooperation with Caliber or something similar.