Also, I *believe* the syncing between Kindle apps on e.g. the Touch and iPad only works when you return to the Home (Library) screen in the app (and of course have a live internet connection to be able to reach the server). In both cases (Kindle and iBooks) you see the sweeping activity icon in the upper left corner of the screen when returning to the Home/Library screens.

Thanks, Bill and raja99. I didn’t know iBooks did that. Cool!

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devini: iOS now does support at least a few additional dictionaries, e.g Spanish and French and probably German. The trick is to select the appropriate keyboard, and then type a word into the Notes app, say, and select it and then call for a definition, which will download the dictionary. This works systemwide – not just in iBooks.

I assume that Apple is storing the location in iCloud, so there are the usual possible issues with iCloud flakiness, iCloud delays, etc.

I’ll admit that I *do* tend to bookmark early and often, so it’s possible that I’m making Apple’s job easier. But it *does* seem to work even without bookmarking, though you might have to wait (I seem to recall Apple saying that iCloud updates can take up to 15 minutes).

For me, it means keeping my place in the book I’m reading no matter which device I’m using right now. I’ve loaded many third-party ePubs on my iPad and iPhone, and any time I create a bookmark, note, or highlight on one, it’s also available to me on the other. I just checked my iPhone and the book I’m reading is on the same page where I left off on my iPad last night.

If you mean that there’s no easy way to load all your third-party books on all your devices automatically, that’s true … but I guess that doesn’t bother me too much, perhaps because I only read on two devices You could always put your ePubs into a Dropbox folder, and use the Dropbox app to load ePubs to iBooks on your current device. Of course this requires you to have a Dropbox account and to install the app on all your devices, but again, that doesn’t bother me too much. For me, the much nicer display and usability of iBooks (especially around highlighting and note-taking!) overrides the extra work in loading each book; after all, you only have to load a book once.