Browse Your Library

When you open it, iBooks displays your books arranged on a faux wooden shelf (Figure 7.1). Swipe up to reveal more books as your library grows.

Figure 7.1. The iBooks bookshelf

Manage collections

Imagine a real-world library where all the books are stacked haphazardly in the middle of the floor. That’s what the iBooks library could become, if not for collections and controls for organizing the titles. Right away, iBooks includes two collections: Books, for EPUB files; and PDFs, for files in Portable Document Format. If you’ve added any PDF files to iBooks, view them by doing one of the following:

• Tap the Collections button, then tap the PDFs button to see them arranged on another shelf (Figure 7.2).