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Getting Started with Apple iOS Devices
Creating and Sharing ePub and PDF Documents
In addition to creating books for iPad with iBooks Author (see “Producing Multi-Touch
Books with iBooks Author” earlier in this guide), you and your students have a powerful
and easy way to publish content on iPad and iPod touch with ePub documents. First
create a digital document in Pages on the Mac that can combine text with movies,
audio, photos, tables, and other elements. Next, export the le in the ePub format.
Now you can add it to iTunes and copy it to an iOS device. The ePub document shows
up on the iBooks bookshelf for viewing on iPad and iPod touch just like any other
book. Because the iBooks app uses the ePub format, the most popular open book
format, you can add any les in that format to the bookshelf. Students can then read
those publications using the features available with books downloaded from the
iBookstore—they can add bookmarks, look up words in the dictionary, search for
and copy text, highlight text, and so on.
Sending Text to iTunes
Another valuable feature on the Mac is a service called “Add to iTunes as a Spoken
Track.” With this feature, students can select text in any Apple application, such as a
web page in Safari, PDF document in Preview, or report in Pages, and use the Services
menu in that application to send the les to iTunes—the text becomes an audio le in
a Spoken Text playlist in the iTunes library that they can then sync to their iOS device.