Chapter 9
Reading Books and Newspapers with iBooks and Newsstand
Not only is your iPod touch a wonderful device for playing games, surfing the Web, and listening to music, but with iBooks, it's also a powerful e-book reader with a library of more than 30,000 free books at your fingertips as well as thousands more paid books, including many New York Times best sellers. But iBooks doesn't stop there! You can add your PDFs to iBooks so you can carry them with you on the iPod touch. This allows you to access all your PDFs from the same library as your books—a great feature for those of you who regularly work with or receive PDF files. In addition to iBooks, Apple has introduced Newsstand in iOS 5. Newsstand lets you view and buy all your magazine ...
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