Recipe background

My great-great-great-great-grandfather once sat me on his knee and said, “You know what kid? People read books for the words.” He then wrote that insight down as a magic recipe.

Today, I’d like to share that recipe with you for improving Apple’s new iBooks.

Ingredients

• One (1) Apple picture of a two-page iBook spread on an iPad, from Apple’s iBooks page.
• Photoshop.

Directions

1. Remove lots of unnecessary eye candy pixels around the edge of your book picture, ensuring it’s still easily recognisable as a book.
2. Move the page number up to the header, so it doesn’t waste 1,000 acres of space in the footer.
3. Profit! Resize your content so it’s 10% bigger but still easy to read.

Alternative recipe

Instead of making your content bigger, show more content on each page.

Serving suggestion

Here’s one I prepared earlier. (New approach on the left, old on the right.)