In addition to simply paging through your ebook, you can also jump to a new page by using bookmarks or the table of contents.
While reading an ebook, you’ll spend most of your time turning pages one at a time. If you want to turn to the next page, place your finger on the right margin and swipe your finger to the left. If you want to see the previous page, place your finger on the left margin and swipe your finger to the right. Either swiping motion curls the page as if you were turning a real book page, as shown in Figure 19-3.
You can also just tap the right margin (to view the next page) or the left margin (to view the previous page).
To turn pages when viewing a PDF file, just swipe your finger to the left (to view the next page) or to the right (to view the previous page).
To jump to a particular chapter, you’ll need to view the table of contents and then tap the chapter you want to read. (These steps do not work when displaying PDF files.) To jump to a specific chapter in an ebook, follow these steps:
While you’re reading a book in iBooks, a Table of Contents icon appears in the upper-left corner of the screen, as shown in Figure 19-4.
Tap the Table of Contents icon. The Table of Contents page appears, as shown in Figure 19-5.
Tap the chapter or section that you want to view.
Rather than turn pages one at a time or jump to specific chapters or sections in an ebook, you might just want to jump to a certain page in your ebook. To jump to any page in an ebook, follow these steps:
While reading an ebook in iBooks, flip through several pages, and tap a page.
Notice that the bottom of the screen displays the current page number, the total number of pages in the ebook, and how many pages are left in that particular chapter. In addition, a line of dots appears at the bottom of the screen, which represents the pages of the ebook. A current page icon (it looks like a brown square over one of the dots) can show you the relative position of the currently displayed page compared to the total number of pages in the ebook, as shown in Figure 19-6.
Place your finger over the current page icon and slide it left or right over the row of dots. As you slide the current page icon, a pop-up appears, telling you the current chapter (or section) and page number.
Lift your finger off the screen to view a page. Your chosen page now appears.
When you’re reading a PDF file, you can jump to another page by following these steps:
While reading a PDF file in iBooks, tap the page. Controls appear at the top and bottom of the page, as shown in Figure 19-7.
(Optional) Tap a thumbnail of a page at the bottom of the screen. Your chosen page appears.
(Optional) Tap the Display Thumbnails icon in the upper-left corner of the screen. Multiple pages appear in rows and columns on the screen, as shown in Figure 19-8. Tap the page you want to view, and that page appears on the screen.
