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The debut of OS X Mavericks brought Apple’s e-book reader, iBooks, to the Mac platform. iBooks for OS X allows you to read books, textbooks, graphic novels and more previously only available on iOS devices.

Setting Up iBooks and Syncing it With Your iBooks Library

How to read iBooks in OS X Mavericks To start reading a book, double-click it and it leaps off the shelf, and at the same time, it opens to either the beginning of the book or the place where you left off, even if you left off reading on another device — an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or another Mac. Specifically, Apple notes that OS X Mavericks: Brings Maps and iBooks to the Mac, introduces Finder Tags and Tabs, enhances multi-display support for power users, delivers new core technologies for breakthrough power efficiency and performance, and includes an all new version of Safari. Photo Credit: Apple, Inc. (Retina Display MacBook Pro.

When you launch iBooks on your Mac for the first time, you’ll be required to login using the same Apple account you have previously used to purchase e-books on your iOS device. After your login is complete, iBooks will check for any previous purchases, and will sync those purchases to your computer.

Now, any new purchases you may make on any devices attached to your Apple ID can be downloaded to your Mac by going to “Store” -> “Check for Available Downloads.” iBooks can also be set to automatically download any new purchases by going to the “Store” tab in iBooks’ Preferences menu, and clicking the box next to: “Download new purchases automatically.”

Exercising Parental Controls

On the “Parental” tab in iBooks Preferences, you can completely disable the iBooks Store, or restrict books with explicit content. This is handy, as most parents don’t want little Bobby or Susie to get a jump start on puberty by accidentally reading “50 Shades of Grey’s Anatomy.”

Turning Pages and Jumping to the Next Chapter

You can turn pages in iBooks either by using the left and right arrow keys on your Mac’s keyboard, by swiping left or right on your Mac’s trackpad, or by hovering your mouse pointer over either edge of the page and clicking the arrow that appears.

Jumping to the next chapter is accomplished by hitting “Command + Shift + Right Arrow”. You can jump to the previous chapter using the “Command + Shift + Left Arrow” combination of keys.

Highlighting Content and Making Notes

While reading a book in iBooks, you can highlight text, or add notes for later reference, To highlight a section of text or add a note, simply drag your cursor across a section of text. After the desired text is highlighted, you’ll see a menu pop-up that will allow you to highlight the text in one of five colors, underline the selected text, add a note to the text, or copy the text.

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If you want to make a note, follow the above steps, and then select “Add Note” from the menu. A small window resembling a post-it note will appear, and you can enter any notes you like about the highlighted content. To access the note, just click the small box alongside the highlighted text. The note will pop-up for you to read or edit.

You can view all of the highlighted sections and notes you have made in an ebook, by clicking the right-most button in the upper left-hand corner of the iBooks window, (it will look like a post-it note), or just the the Command + 4 hotkey combo. All of your notes and highlights will appear in a panel on the left side of your display. Click the various sections in that panel to jump to your highlighted or note-filled areas of your book.

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If you need to delete a highlighted area, and/or its notes, just click the highlighted area, and then select “Remove Note,” or “Remove Highlight and Note” from the pop-up.

Using iBooks Text-to-Speech Function

Apple’s iBooks can read the text of an ebook to a user with a few simple steps.

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Launch iBooks, and load the book you would like to have read to you. Now, go to the spot in the book where you would like iBooks to begin reading to you.

Now, go to “Edit” -> “Speech” -> “Start Speaking” in the iBooks Menu.

Your Mac will begin reading your ebook to you, continuing until you tell it to stop. Note: While your Mac will happily read the whole book to you, it won’t turn the pages, you’ll need to do that manually.

To stop the narration, go to “Edit” -> “Speech” -> “Stop Speaking” in the iBooks Menu.

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You can also highlight text and then select “Start Speaking” from the “More” menu. Your Mac will then speak the highlighted text.

Conclusion

The iBooks app in OS X Mavericks gives users another great way to read or listen to their ebooks. Very handy if you don’t own an iOS device, or if you don’t have yours handy at the moment.

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A pleasant surprise revealed in Apple’s preview of OS X Mavericks during the 2013 WWDC keynote address was the announcement of iBooks for the Mac. The lack of an iBook app for the desktop has been frustrating and frankly impedes my productivity. I love reading books on my iPad but I do most of my academic work on my 27″ iMac or Macbook Air. Having my iBooks only available on the iPad or iPhone stymied my note taking and research. I compose most of my work in Pages for Mac and have multiple documents open on my virtual desktop and physical books on my real one. Voice dictation into iOS Notes with my iPhone lets me easily create notes from physical books and synched to all devices I use to for work. However, I have not been able to easily move highlights and notes from iBooks between my iPad and iMac. Soon I will because iBooks is coming to the Mac and several new features are squarely aimed at the education market.

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Multiple open books is a new feature coming to iBooks for the Mac. Icons for the mac os.

iBooks on the Mac will have the same features as those on your iOS devices — turn pages with a swipe, zoom in on images with a pinch, or scroll from cover to cover. Notes, highlighted passages, and bookmarks created on your Mac, are pushed to all your devices automatically via iCloud. iCloud even remembers which page you’re on. So if you start reading on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, you can pick up right where you left off on your Mac. Best of all is the ability to have multiple books open at the same time. When have you ever opened a book, then closed it before opening another to extract notes from, only to close it before moving to the next one? I doubt ever, especially not me. I’ve got multiple books spread out in from of me quite often to move back and forth through. Now I’ll be able to do the same within iBooks. Yes, iBooks in Mavericks puts multiple books on your virtual desktop just like your real one. Highlights, notes, bookmarks and other features are synched in iCloud and ready to use on any iDevice. A Notes pane gives you a list of all your notes and the highlighted text associated with them. The ‘dynamic textbook functionality’ allows you to convert notes into handy study cards.

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Craig Federighi demonstrating note taking at WWDC 2013

We’ve got a few more months before OS X Mavericks is released to the public. The new iBooks for Mac is a welcome upgrade that I can’t wait to start using. It will definitely increase my productivity and hopefully yours too.

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