Managing an iPile of iBooks on your iPad
To start reading iBooks on your iPad, first download the iBooks app in the App Store. The app is free, and it comes with access to Apple’s iBooks Store. The iBooks Store is an inviting place to browse and shop for books 24 hours a day. The books you end up purchasing for your iPad library show up in the cover view, left, or in a view that lists your books by title.
You can read a book by its cover.
If you prefer to view a list of your book titles rather than use cover view, tap the change view icon at the upper-left corner of the screen. In cover view, you can sort the list by most recent, titles, authors or categories.
Remove a book from view.
Sometimes you don’t want to see all the books you’ve bought (or you don’t want someone else to see them). In cover view, tap Select, and then tap the book covers you want to remove, or tap Select All. Each selected book displays a check mark; tap a cover again to remove its check mark and thus deselect the book. When all the books you want to delete have check marks, tap Delete in the upper-left corner of the display. Apple asks you to tap a Remove Download button. In list mode, tap Select as well. This time, blank circles appear next to each title in the list. Tap the circle for each book you want to remove so a check mark appears, and then tap Delete in the upper left. As before, you must confirm by tapping Remove Download. If you prefer, you can hide books in iCloud from your iPad. Tap All Books, and then tap the Hide iCloud Books switch.
As with other content you purchase from Apple, you can restore (download) any book you’ve purchased by tapping the Purchased icon at the bottom of the screen in the iBooks Store. The books you purchase from the iBooks Store land in iCloud. Tap the iCloud icon to download the book again.
Organise books by collections
If you have a vast library of e-books, you might want to organise titles by genre or subject by creating collections such as mysteries, classics, biographies, children’s books, even all the Dummies books you own. Apple has created four collections on your behalf: All books, audiobooks, PDFs for the Adobe PDF files on your iPad, and samples, those short previews of books that you can read before deciding whether to buy. (You can’t edit or remove these.) To create, rename, or remove a collection of your own, tap All Books to see your current list then choose from the following tasks: Add a collection: Make sure the My Books tab is selected at the bottom of the screen and then tap All Books at the top (you’ll see a drop-down arrow). Tap + New Collection and type a name for the new collection. Delete a collection: Tap Edit and the red circle, and then tap Delete to finish the job. Move a book or PDF to a new collection: Go to the cover or list views, tap Select, tap each work you want to move, and then tap Move. Select the new collection for these titles.