Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent textbooks"

Re:Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent text... by dangson on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:00PM (#3485331)

I don't have a Kindle Fire, but I imagine it isn't very useful for textbooks. Thinking back to my school days, textbooks were huge and closer to the size of an iPad than to a Fire. The Fire's screen is great for blocks of text, but it's way too small to clearly display charts and tables.

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Re:Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent text... by ChrisLTD on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:08PM (#3485375)

In landscape mode it should be able to fit a decent sized chart or table on screen.

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Re:Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent text... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:24PM (#3485471)

Next to the relevant text section, as with a paper textbook?

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Re:Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent text... by ChrisLTD on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:42PM (#3485588)

No, but that would be tough on the current iPad as well, given the relatively low resolution compared to printed books.

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Re:Apple announces iBooks 2, iBooks Author to "reinvent text... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 19, 2012 @01:44PM (#3485927)

I really don't think a chart/video next to some explanatory text would tax an iPad screen. News websites often use a similar layout and work fine.

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