Apple’s iBooks Store comes to the desktop with a huge library of titles

Jun 28, 2013 17:01 GMT  ·  By

Apple is bringing iBooks to the Mac this fall when OS X Mavericks makes its debut, putting over 1.8 million electronic books at every customer’s disposal.

OS X 10.9 aka Mavericks brings a lot of new stuff, among which a desktop version of the iBooks app transitioning from iOS.

Redesigned to fit bigger screens, iBooks on the Mac brings with it the iBooks Store (which Apple thankfully no longer writes as a single word) and iCloud sync.

Any book you’ve downloaded on your iPhone or iPad will instantly appear on your iMac or MacBook Air, and even the page you’ve reached will be preserved.

“And there are over 1.8 million more in the iBooks Store, ready for you to download with just a few clicks,” Apple says.

If you’re on a trackpad you can turn pages with a swipe, zoom in on images with a pinch, and scroll through pages effortlessly. For students, iBooks can keep as many books open as they like, and excerpts are quoted automatically in case they need to be used for later reference.

Any note, highlighted passage, or bookmark made on the Mac gets synced to the user’s iCloud account which pushes them to all their entire range of devices, automatically.

“That way you have them on whichever one you take to class,” Apple says.