Using Bookmarks

With a paper book, it's easy to stuff multiple bookmarks in various places in a book so you can find certain pages again. With an ebook, you can't stuff a piece of paper in between its pages, but you can place multiple bookmarks on a page.

Creating a Bookmark

To create a bookmark, follow these steps:

  1. While reading an ebook in iBooks, open to a page that you want to bookmark.

  2. Hold your finger on a word on the page you want to bookmark until a magnifying glass appears. You can also bookmark a heading or entire sentence if you prefer—if you're studying for a class, you may want to use the bookmark feature as a highlighting tool.

  3. Lift your finger off the screen. A Dictionary, Bookmark, and Search menu appears over your chosen word, as shown ...

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