Change the Type in an iBook

ONE THING YOU CAN’T do with a printed book is make the type size bigger or smaller to suit the needs of your eyes, not the book designer’s. And if you don’t care for a book’s typeface, you’re stuck with that, too—in a printed book, that is.

But not on the iPad. Thanks to the iBooks software, you can make book type bigger or smaller, or change its look altogether. Just tap the Type icon () at the top of the page. A box like the one shown below appears. Tap the little to make the text on-screen smaller, or tap the big to make it bigger. The size changes as you tap, so you immediately see which works best for you.

To change the typeface (font) used for the text, tap the Fonts button in the box and tap the name of a typeface in the list that drops down. The font name appears in its namesake typeface so you can preview what it looks like on-screen. Tap the page when you’re done.