How To Open PDF files In iBooks (Free e-book included)

What's not to love about the new iPhone 4? It can call & text (no-brainer), connect to the net via 3G or WiFi, Video Call via Face Time & Yahoo Messenger, play music & videos, and run a multitude of applications, among other features. Oh wait, there's one more thing, the iPhone 4 also has an e-book reader, aptly named "iBooks" (iBooks is also available on iPhone 3G/3GS, iPod touch 2G/3G/4G, and iPad).

I love iBooks, not because I can store tons of e-books on my iPhone, but because I can download PDF files or e-books in PDF format from the net, and open them in iBooks. Let me show you how. In this demo, I am going to do the following steps:

1. Open Safari from iPhone
2. Input the following link in Safari's address bar: http://bit.ly/aFZ3GJ
3. This will download Brother Bo Sanchez' free e-book entitled "My Maid Invests in the Stock Market... And Why You Should, Too!"
4. Click Open in iBooks (see screenshot 1)
5. iBooks will launch and should display e-books 
6. Select My Maid Invests in the Stock Market... And Why You Should, Too!

Click Open in iBooks

E-book is now displayed in the iBooks library

Read pdf from iBooks

Congratulations, you have successfully added a PDF file to your iBooks library. If you already know how to this, well, at least you got a free e-book, right? Get e-books by Bo Sanchez and lots more here. Enjoy this free e-book and let me know your thoughts about it. I'll be sharing mine in my next article.

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