Apple's iBooks App Gets iCloud-Support, Read-To-Me Feature
June 7, 2011
An update to Apple’s iBooks app for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad has been released. Version 1.3 includes iCloud capabilities and for the first time, read-aloud options.
Released hours after yesterday’s WWDC keynote address, iBooks now includes the ability of pushing book purchases across iDevices with the new Automatic Downloads feature. This is as easy as purchasing an iBooks on your iPad, for example, and then seeing it appear (almost immediately thereafter) on your iPhone too.
Another feature of Version 1.3 is a real-aloud option for children. Within select books, real narrators’ voices read the book to you. Plus, in some books, it will even highlight the words as you read along. Although this feature has been available for books bought in the App Store for some time, this is the first time iBooks offers the feature as well.
The free iBooks app is available in the App Store.
