[LINK] iPad and eBooks

[Dr Bob Jansen]

Marghanita,

My comments are below.

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Dr Bob Jansen
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On 11/08/2011, at 8:09, Marghanita da Cruz <marghanita at ramin.com.au> wrote:

> Dr Bob Jansen wrote:
>> I read ebooks on my iPad all the time. Currently reading James Gleick's 
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> Have you tried/is there a text to speech ie can you listen to the book?
There is no native text to speech facility in the iPad. There may be a third party app but I haven't looked for one. If one bought an audio book, of course, then you could listen to it via the iPod app.
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>> The Information and really like the way I can make notes as I read to remember things of interest. However, for this particular book, I am
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> Is this a feature of the e-book reader on the IPAD or do you put your notes somewhere else on the IPAD?
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The commenting feature is provided by the iBooks app itself. It allows me to store as many named bookmarks as I like as well as highlighting sections of text to make notes. All of these are stored in the book and accessed via a tab in the table of contents of the book. You can also search for content of these notes.

>> missing the physical object in my bookshelf - may have to buy a copy anyway. For novels, etc, I find I don't need the physical book at all, except for those authors I collect, like Ian Rankin, Doug Adams, Terry Pratchett, Janet Evanovich.
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> The objects may become even more valuable as publishers do shorter print runs. Though I notice, penguin has recognised this market and churned out the "classics" for years.
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>> So maybe I'm a half-convert!
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> Does the James Gleick book have hyperlinks, to sections or chapters or is just continuous?

The book is a continuous object split into chapters. Pages resize according to the orientation of the iPad (portrait or landscape). There are no hyperlinks in the book contents as bought apart from the table of contents and bookmarks. I presume but may be wrong in this, that an author could insert in-line hyperlinks if so desired. Gleick obviously did not desire to do so.
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