As of this morning after an iPad update, iBooks is showing the book pages in two columns instead of one full page, left to right. How do I change this back to one page on the screen?
Agree. Will not use iBooks anymore. Gone to Kindle. Will not go back to iBooks until I can read in two columns in landscape in a large text like I could before. Apple, please listen to your customers!!!!!
I too have this issue. making it 1 size larger makes it so the type is way too big. sadly i hate 2 page view, and i cannot remove it without making it too large to read
I now read on the kindle app which offers many advantages over iBooks. My devices have always been Apple, but I am often irked at options taken away with the frequent system upgrades... and the newest changes to iBooks have led me to abandon it in favor of the kindle app which has better user control. Note taking is also much easier on kindle IMO.
Judy I'm with you. I'm going back to kindle books. I don't want to wear glasses when I'm reading my books but I don't want to read it and scrolling mode either feels too much like I'm reading letters at work. I read to relax. If this is how Apple is going to handle it from here on out they've lost me as a customer for iBooks
I saw this too. Stupid solution. Increase your font one up from the smallest.
The tiniest font goes into two column mode apparently.
Yes, this works, but in the case of the book I was reading, the bigger font was way too big and choosing other fonts didn't work. I sure wish the iBooks Author program forced publishers to use decent fonts and to allow ALL of them to increase or decrease without changing how the page looks. Poor programming.
Thank you!
The suggestion to change font size up one notch did NOT work for me - I had to go two font sizes up to force it back to one column. Which then obliged me to hold my iPad Pro at arms length to make the text small enough to be comfortable.
Good god Apple, have you gone insane? How much effort would it take to allow the columns to be user controllable?! What did you do, hand the iBooks code to some crack-addled intern and tell them to have fun with it?
This worked but made iBooks as a e-reader nearly unusable.
That the app now forces you to use a smaller font if you want the opposiable page is an issue.
It looks like Apple want to chase away customers.
Please, I just want 2 columns on, at least, most of the fonts.
How?
I Have the opposite problem. Apparently Apple decided with ios10 that they should control the size of your font in iBooks. If you want two columns of text, you have to shrink the font, but if you want one you have to enlarge it. For those over 50, this is completely idiotic, since if you want two columns of text you can no longer have it because the font Apple decides you need is too small to be readable.
Perhaps Apple doesn't realize that with software you should be able to configure options like font size to suit your personal preference.
Apple is becoming increasingly Marxist. It may be time to switch to Kindle, or perhaps even Samsung, if this is not fixed soon.
Do you guys know if they're working to fix this? I can't read in huge font, only in very small font, and now I'm forced to have two columns like in the bible!?!?? Man, I really hope they fix this.
Helllo Vici,
I have just the opossite question.
After update (iOS10) iBook is showing full page instead of 2 columns. And I prefer 2 columns to read in bed with the iPad in landscape position.
Apple decides page display in function of font size?
That's pure µ$ style!
I want to decide both, page display and font size. That will be traditional Apple style.
Unfortunatelly, things seem to be changing in Apple to µ$ worst way.
gone to Kindle. iBooks is now useless to me without two columns at any font/size.
iBooks/iPad two columns per page
