iBook vs ePub

[Darkn3ssF4lls]

Hey yall,

 

Is it worth waiting for the new books to show up on iBooks ? I saw this link for a ePub I am just not familiar with the difference between a PDF a ePub and a iBook interactive.

 

http://www.warhammerdigital.com/warhammer-40000/rules/warhammer-40000-collection.html

[Race Bannon]

From my personal experience, unless you have a dedicated eBook reader, then you'll need to get ePub3 software and that can be a terrible :cuss.  Either I was unlucky or too ignorant, but I'm no longer comfortable with electronic books.  PDF or real thing.

 

Others should say more on this though.

 

Patience is a virtue ^_^

[Aqui]

If I remember correctly Kobo will work with epub3

[Pvnisher]

iBook reads ePub I believe. I had huge problems in android trying to view my rulebooks. Switched to iPhone and have no problems viewing the books on it.

[Darkn3ssF4lls]

Thanks all, it reads ePub last I knew.

[Pvnisher]

Actually now that I remember ePub definitely works. Google books had a stupid 100mb limit on android and I could never get any ePub reader to format the rule book correctly. iBooks instantly did it.

[Master Avoghai]

From what I remember epub is just the digital pages that you can flip.

 

The ibooks is enhanced because you have pop up windows that open when you click on the link. For example, if you click on a weapon name you have a window with a profile appearing...

[Grand Master Belial]

The trouble with the iBooks version is it is essentially locked to only Apple Devices and won't transfer. I prefer the ePub or PDF versions. 

[ronin_cse]

The trouble with the iBooks version is it is essentially locked to only Apple Devices and won't transfer. I prefer the ePub or PDF versions. 

 

The other benefit the ePub versions have is you can read them on a normal computer (I have had good luck with Adobe Digital Editions although the formatting is still off), nice if you're at work and think of something you wanna look up but don't wanna pull out your iPad ;).

 

Those enhanced editions are quite nice though so it's a bit of a trade off either way

[Kristoff]

I don't use Apple devices due to their proprietary nature.  I have found UB Reader to be fine on 3 separate phones so far.  I also can use Readium through the Chrome browser or FBReader on my desktop.

 

ePub is great for a flowing page style that just scrolls along.  PDF is great if you are using a sufficiently large tablet or you want to keep something handy on a flash drive to scan and read.  You can set them to be a specific page size or whatever.

 

The iBook is great if you are using an Apple product and want it to do almost everything for you.  Many of them used to include an army builder as well.

 

Has GW announced anything like their AoS app for the Dark Imperium?

[SickSix]

Has anyone used a Kindle Fire?

[D3L]

why not just use Calibre, any format, and any OS, and open source at the same time, with clever library management

[plastic_slug]

I don't use Apple devices due to their proprietary nature.  I have found UB Reader to be fine on 3 separate phones so far.  I also can use Readium through the Chrome browser or FBReader on my desktop.

 

ePub is great for a flowing page style that just scrolls along.  PDF is great if you are using a sufficiently large tablet or you want to keep something handy on a flash drive to scan and read.  You can set them to be a specific page size or whatever.

 

The iBook is great if you are using an Apple product and want it to do almost everything for you.  Many of them used to include an army builder as well.

 

Has GW announced anything like their AoS app for the Dark Imperium?

GW has announced an app for 8th edition. They also mentioned that it would not be ready at launch, though.

[Ascanius]

I find Azardi, the program they recommend for ePub3 on Windows, to be more of a headache than it's worth.

[Otto von Bludd]

From my personal experience, unless you have a dedicated eBook reader, then you'll need to get ePub3 software and that can be a terrible .  Either I was unlucky or too ignorant, but I'm no longer comfortable with electronic books.  PDF or real thing.

 

Others should say more on this though.

 

Patience is a virtue

 

This is exactly my experience too.

[The Yncarne]

Anybody know if there will be an enhanced iTunes edition of the rulebook? I see the normal one is $20US cheaper than the hardback I just bought. I see no mention of an enhanced version on warhammerdigital.com or iTunes.

 

Thanks.