PDFs on your mobile bookshelf
The new iPhone operating system, iOS4, has a smart feature that lets you store PDFs on your ‘bookshelf’ in the iBooks app. There are two sections in the bookshelf — one for books and one for PDFs — tap the button at the top of the screen to navigate between the two.
To get your PDFs onto the iPhone, in iTunes go to File > Add to Library… and import them. iTunes will put them in the right place when you sync up.
I like this because I have product manuals and user guides and all kinds of things in PDF form; this is a good way to have them somewhat organized and available wherever you are. You can selectively choose which books and PDFs you want to sync over, so you don’t have to carry them all. If you have a lot of PDFs, it’s nice to have a ‘library’ to organize them in.
Here’s what it looks like when you open a PDF on the web — you get an ‘Open in iBooks’ button at the top. Pressing this button will take you to the iBooks app, put the current PDF on your bookshelf, and open it up:
Here’s the two bookshelves in the iBooks app:
BOOKS
PDFs
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