Gadgetory

hey guys it's Joanna for the verge and I'm wishing i was a student today because apple just released the new ibooks to which is basically centered around textbooks and they've come up with some really interesting ways to present text books to students so let's dive in here so this is life on Earth one of the textbooks that Apple demo today and I'll turn down the volume here but so it starts off with this really nice video of the author sort of intro in the book and so you've got the video over here and then you can swipe right into the textbook you've got a bunch of chapters here and when you want to get into the chapter you just select one of the pages and you've got a pretty nice textbook experience and so when you rotate it this way you go up and down but i prefer the landscape orientation for going through some of these books even though you get less text on the page so you have interactive features throughout this book which is pretty cool select different things and can zoom in on this and pop up you've got some videos throughout see if this one works and then it's going to tell you what's going on in each of these videos so that's pretty neat in terms of actual text there's some neat tricks there you can see here before I was underlining let's try and do that at another page with some more text so let's say come in here i can highlight this whole paragraph there we go can change the color can also make a note right here very important or very important and so I'm in there and so you can do that throughout the book and then when you actually jump out jump back you can always pinch in to go to the general menu when you jump out and go to your notes up here you'll see that the parts you've clipped I'll come up here with the notes right under it so that's a pretty handy tool you can also go in here to your study cards and that put some of those notes on the study cards but they also give you where are those here they are so the glossary term so you flip this over and you've got definitions and whatnot so pretty nice tools there one other thing I wanted to show in the books see if I can go back is that at the end of some chapters there are some QA and questions test taking stuff let's see if i can find that here there we go yep here we go so which one of these is a Savannah I'm going to go with this one looks like I was right as always so that is the science textbook here and I'll take you back out to an algebra textbook which isn't as interesting doesn't have as many videos or interactive features and kind of tell that here they just layered some stuff on top so you got basic equations and practice samples and what you really get here as you can click here and there are some test taking tips that's kind of neat other than that not much else you can do in terms of interaction in the algebra app so overall that's a look here at ibooks to hoping to see more of these sort of interactive textbooks and there are tons to look at but these are just some of the samples