Navigating PDFs
The features for reading and navigating PDFs iniBooksare both similar and unique to reading e-books.
Tapping pages on the left or right side of screen, as usual, “turns the pages”.
However, the thumbnails are so small that they’re almost useless in this regard.
The two other methods for navigating pages are better.
In both views it’s possible for you to navigate to specific pages.
Bookmarking and Searching
The bookmarking feature is visually appealing.
you could tap the bookmark icon on the upper-right of the tool to bookmark a page.
And of course you could search a PDF by clicking on the magnifying glass icon.
Apple doesn’t make that process very easy.
Apple wants you to import documents via the iTunes program, which means making a wired connection.
To do this, you drop PDFs into your iTunes library as you do music files.
They can then be found in the Books library of the iTunes sidebar.
Wireless Connections
Personally, I prefer to import PDFs wirelessly via my Dropbox account.
I drop all downloaded PDFs into specified folder on my account.
For more information about using PDFs and other documents with the iPad, see thisarticle.
Despite these limitations, it’s helpful that users can access their e-books and PDFs in one tool.
Let us know what you think about iBooks as a PDF reader.
