From the course: Ebook Foundations
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Open and read ebooks
- [Narrator] What do you need to read an ebook? You either need an actual eReader device, a device for just for reading ebooks or a tablet that has an app on it that let you read e-books, or you need an app installed on your desktop computer. So, if you have an iPad or an iPhone that already comes with iBooks and as we saw in a previous video, you can just click in the iBooks app to jump to the iBookstore. Select a book and it automatically downloads and opens into iBooks. And if you have a Kindle, you can just go to the Kindle Store on your Kindle device, find a book, buy it and it'll download directly to that device. But what if you don't have an e-reader handy? What if you want to read on the desktop, for example? Let me show you some options that you have, and I'm also going to talk about apps for the Android. What we're looking at right now is the Kindle app for the Macintosh, showing a whole bunch of books that I've purchased over the years and ones that I've added. Here is the…
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