iBooks with the Mac download, buy and read
When you open iBooks for the first time, is linked to the program already with your Apple ID. All of the books that you have purchased with your account already, you will be shown.
- Before you read your books on the Mac, you must first download them from the Cloud to your computer. To do this, click on the cloud icon.
- Also epub books that you have not bought their own Apple ID, you can read with iBooks. Just open them in the Finder with iBooks, so you can join in your iBooks library. The books were bought using a different Apple ID, so you need to turn off your Computer for use with the password of the foreign ID.
Mavericks-iBooks library
The main features of iBooks on Mavericks
With iBooks, you work directly on the Text. Once you have selected a text passage that opens similar to Kindle a menu. You can:
- the Text colour, highlight and underline.
- the passage of text to copy and paste it into a document.
- a Passage in a social network, share via E-Mail.
- Terms on Wikipedia, within the book or search the Web.
Own iBooks test on your Mac
If you want to create with iBooks Author to create an iBook, saves you the iBooks implementation of OS X Mavericks, the detour via an iOS device. Previously, you had to connect an iPad or iPhone to your Mac to preview your iBooks see. With Mavericks you are watching now on the Mac, a preliminary version of your EPUBs.
- You open your book in iBook Author.
- Click on the "preview"Button at the top right of the menu bar.
- Select as device "of This Computer (iBooks for Mac)".
- Click on "preview".
OS X Mavericks: iBooks Author
