18. Reading Books with the iBooks App

Reading ebooks with the iBooks app offers many benefits over reading paper books. One is that you can carry an entire library of books with you so you are never without something to read, and if you don’t happen to have a book you want to read in your iBooks Library, you can quickly get to the iBookstore to download new ones. Another advantage is that you also carry your own lighting with you because of iOS devices’ bright screens; you can even read in the dark. Also, the iBooks app offers a lot more features than a paper book does; one of my favorites is the ...

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