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 suffer and do nothing. Fortunately with ebooks, you can modify the text to make it more readable by adjusting the font size, font, and screen brightness.

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 (see Figure 26-1).

  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 Brightness and Font icons appear, as shown in Figure 26-13. (If you do not see these icons, tap the screen until they appear.) ...

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