10/30/2023 0 Comments Kindle app switch to page numbersIt wins if you’re taking screenshots, but when reading, there’s really no difference. When you’re in the “sepia” mode, iBooks is a little less brown and a little more contrasty. In Kindle, I use either “publisher font” (which is a mystery-meat typeface that sometimes appears) or Palatino. I prefer Charter in iBooks on the Retina iPad, but the same font seems too heavy on the iPad mini (where I use Iowan). All the screenshots here use Palatino for a fair comparison, but the your choice will depend on your own taste, and on the device you’re using. Both apps contain Palatino and Georgia, but otherwise they have their own lists. The font choice in iBooks is bigger and more varied. Fonts iBooks has more fonts, but Kindle has more ugly chrome. For me, iBooks wins here with slightly looser spacing. Neither app lets you change line spacing (although the hardware Kindle does). As these are the issues in typography most likely to cause a fistfight, they’re good options to have. IBooks won’t let you change this but the default choice is just fine, leaving the body text breathing room but not forcing too many extra page turns.Īnd iBooks will let you switch justification on and off (justification is where words are stretched to fill a line, making sure the edges of the text are always neat on both sides), and toggle auto-hyphenation. The biggest differences are that Kindle lets you adjust the width of the margins, which is good news after a recent update filled the reading screen with text from edge to edge with no way to change it. When reading, the differences are tiny but significant. Recent updates have brought Kindle almost in line with iBooks. Aesthetics will also weigh heavily in the other sections of this piece, so I’ll stick to the library view and the reading view here, as they pretty much set the scene. ![]() IBooks looks better than the Kindle app, but - somewhat ironically - Kindle has more text options. If iBooks had a purpose, it was to prove that the iPad could be a great e-reader, and to demo well. It launched with a bookshelf view that Kindle waited years to get, and it has the advantage of a built-in bookstore. IBooks has always looked good, and has changed a lot less than Kindle. ![]() It has, over the years, gotten a lot prettier and easier to use, and is now almost identical to iBooks when you’re in full-screen, chrome- free reading mode. Kindle was made to let you read your Kindle books on your iPad, with almost no considerations for aesthetics. Historyįrom the beginning, the two apps have had different goals. Today we’re talking only about the iPad versions of Kindle and iBooks.
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