I have about 600 pdfs and 100 books and iBooks is a decent program. (pdf annotations needed desperately!)
the new version that came out today is really nice. I have made some full page scans of some color documents that I have not in another format (learning material and 1980s computer magazines).
And iBooks just got a whole lot faster. It's still far from being perfect but now the pages load very quickly with a lot of fuzziness which gets clear within a fraction of a second. Still to slow to be really good but better than before. Zooming in on secitons is quite bad as it takes much longer for the borders to get sharp. The center is quite quick at becoming sharp but the border, sometimes small sometimes 1/5th or the page is unsharp. Moving around is also not good since it gives you kind of a google maps feeling where parts and pieces at different places look distorted.
iBooks could still improve and I wait to the time where they will be preloading the next page, like acdsee did to pictures when you wanted to quickly skim ahead. As I always do. A little algorithm would do the trick. (forward and backward please).
Covers
I have not found a way to easily predict if my documents will show the first page correctly as cover or not. I have not yet had time to find a way to correct the pdfs so that the covers get displayed correctly. I really hate the standard text display if it fails to display the cover. But even worse are the white pages, i.e. little black spots on large white canvas.
Apple still rocks. Nobody has been able to come up with such a mass of all encompassing software.
I really would love to see them reward the people that come of with the stuff and not just steal, copy use it. They should buy the intelectual property of the real inventors and create nice videos where those people tell their story and how they did it.
Kind of like do good not evil, even if the motto is from the G company that has failed to provide really amazing stuff for a long time now.
Rgds.
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