There’s a saying that goes, “Leaders are readers.” With iBooks, you can easily carry and read all types of books to help you become a better person, whether you want to read for work, pleasure, or education.

If you purchased Amazon’s Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s NOOK and bought Kindle or NOOK ebooks, download the free Kindle or NOOK app for your iPad, and you can transfer and read all your Kindle or NOOK ebooks on your iPad. Now your investment in all those ebooks won’t be a waste of money when you wind up carrying your iPad everywhere and leaving your old reader to collect dust in a closet.

If you also read ebooks on your iPhone or computer, you can sync your iBooks across devices. Just click Sync when prompted by iBooks, as shown in Figure 19-16. To change your ebook synchronization options, tap the Settings icon from the Home screen and tap iBooks (under the Apps category on the left-hand side) to view your iBooks synchronization options.

As ebooks grow in popularity, you can expect to find more choices covering a wide variety of topics, so you should never run out of reading material, unless your iPad runs out of battery power first.

Figure 19-16. Apple will sync your iBooks and bookmarks between devices.