If you keep track of this blog then you would most probably know that I gave up my throw away Android tablet for a throw away iPad! When I got my new piece of technology, one of the things which amazed me was that there was a "Newsstand" app which mimicked an actual news stand. I was so excited by this that I though all my documents could be organized in these virtual shelves for easy access. By the way it looked cool as hell too. To my disappointment, I later found out that I had to pay extortionate amounts of money to download material to be displayed in the newsstand and that I can't store my own on it. Rubbish! Until I found out that Apple did not install the proper book shelf app by default and that I had to download it from the app store.
From the app store I downloaded the iBooks app which is free (just search for iBook). After installing this app, I saw that the iPad was giving me a choice on whether to open documents such as .PDF with my DocsToGo app (which I invested in for viewing, editing and creating office documents and is highly recommended) or with the iBooks app. The cool thing about the DocsToGo app is that you can edit documents and save them to your local storage but the even cooler thing is that the iBooks app saves these documents and displays them on shelves of a book rack.
Give it a go! You will surely prize your library once you get the hang of it.
