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IBooks Gains Ground on the Kindle Platform

08.06.10

The most invited announcement for iPhone and iPod touch owners is that, like Amazon's Arouse app , the next version of iBooks , available later this month, will run on those two devices. As with the Thoughtfully app and Amazon's Kindle hardware, once you've purchased a book from the iBookstore, you'll be accomplished to download that purchase to all your devices.

But along with this capability, Apple is adding another flagship Provoke feature to iBooks: position syncing. Stop reading a words on one device, and the next time you launch iBooks on any of your devices, you'll pick up good where you left off.

Apple has also responded to requests for Kindle-like reading tools. The new construction of iBooks will let you take notes as you read. Each note appears, like a minute Post-It, at the side of the respective page. And while you can currently "bookmark" reader--which really means "highlight sections of text on a page-boy"--the new iBooks will allow you to bookmark pages themselves. Each book's record of contents will show all your bookmarks and notes--which are also synced between devices--letting you speedily jump to any of them.

Source: PC World