There are many things to worry and stress about this holiday season, but where you find your travel entertainment really shouldn’t be one of them. Here’s our guide to getting a great free read before you get on a plane, train, or car.
know where to look
the easiest place to pick up a book for your ipad or iphone is at the ibooks store itself. On a Mac, launch iBooks (if you don’t have it, download it for free here), and then click iBooks Store. On the right, you will see a list of quick links. click free books
You are reading: Free books on ibooks
On an iOS device, tap iBooks, tap Store, and then tap Featured at the bottom of the screen. scroll down to the quick links at the bottom of the page and click on free books.
find the books you want
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apple’s free book collection is divided into several subcategories, headed by apple recommended free books. These include such dazzling titles as Williams-Sonoma Thanksgiving and Apple’s own iPhone and iPad guides. below that, you can search for free books, tagged by category.
Diving into a subcategory (fiction and literature, for example) will bring up a list of free eBooks tagged within that section, for example, A Christmas Carol by Dickens and H.G. Wells, the time machine. you can browse individual titles by tapping (clicking if you’re on your mac) or scrolling right if nothing you see suits your taste. There are a host of excellent royalty-free books available, including Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jane Austen’s plays, Edgar Allen Poe’s poems, and more.
If you know the name of a public domain work you want to read (Sherlock Holmes, for example), you can skip the Free Books section and just use iBooks’s search bar. That said, be careful: Some copyright-free books have multiple versions uploaded by different publishers, and though they may all contain the same content, certain ones may cost money while others are available for free. To avoid spending a few unnecessary bucks, browse on the Mac version of iBooks and click the “Only Show Free Titles” checkbox after searching.
Venture outside the iBookstore
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apple bookstore isn’t the only place to find great free books: my personal favorite is project gutenberg, which compiles (and sometimes creates) e-books from out-of-print, royalty-free novels. There is a decent amount of crossover with iBookstore, but Project Gutenberg has a larger overall selection and also offers multiple download formats.
Some good places to start looking for Project Gutenberg include their Top 100 eBooks, Popular eBooks, and Recently Added eBooks.
ready to read
When you’ve found a book you like on ibookstore, just tap the free button and then tap the get book button that appears. After that, the book will start downloading in your library and should automatically appear on all your devices that have iBooks installed.
If you want a book from an external site like project gutenberg, it’s easiest to download the book to the device you plan to read it with. If it’s an iPad, just navigate to the book page and tap the book’s epub download link. the epub should load as an icon with the option open in ‘ibooks’ above. tap the link to send the file to your ibooks library. on your mac, when you click the epub download link, the book should end up in your downloads folder; to add it, open ibooks and go to file > add to library.
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