If you haven’t got an iPad, you’ve probably been depressed that iBooks isn’t available on your iPhone.
As if that was going to last for long.
Steve Jobs just announced iBooks support in iPhone OS 4.0. It works very similarly to the way it does on the iPad: in fact, it’s almost a one-to-one translation.
The real improvement here, actually, is the way that iBooks will now automatically sync your page and bookmarks across devices, just like the Kindle. What that means is if you leave your iPad at home, you can read your iBook on the iPhone from the page you left off.
Wow. Apple sure is getting serious about reading… given that the company’s headed by a man who once claimed people didn’t read anymore.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
