Making Ebooks Easier to Read

If you find that the text is hard to read with a paper book, you either have to buy a magnifying glass, get a special large-print version of the book, or just do nothing and suffer. Fortunately with ebooks, you can modify the text to make it more readable by adjusting the font, font size, and screen brightness.

Note

You cannot change the font or font size of a PDF file, but you can change the brightness of the screen.

To see how to change the font, font size, and screen brightness of an ebook, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap iBooks. The iBooks screen appears (shown earlier in Figure 19-1).

  2. Tap the image of the book you want to read.

  3. Flip to any page in the ebook. In the upper-right corner of the screen, the ...

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