In addition to the ability to jump to another page, iBooks gives you a way to view the table of contents and then return to the last page you were reading at the time.
While reading an ebook, you'll spend most of your time turning pages one at a time. If you want to turn to the next page, place your finger on the right margin and swipe your finger to the left. If you want to see the previous page, place your finger on the left margin and swipe your finger to the right. Either swiping motion curls the page as if you were turning a real book page, as shown in Figure 26-3.
You can also just tap the right margin (to view the next page) or the left margin (to view the previous page).
To jump to a particular chapter, you'll need to view the table of contents and then tap the chapter you want to read.
To jump to a specific chapter, follow these steps:
While you're reading a book in iBooks, a Table of Contents icon appears in the upper-left corner of the screen, as shown in Figure 26-4.
Tap the Table of Contents icon. The Table of Contents page appears, as shown in Figure 26-5.
Tap the chapter or section that you want to view. (If you tap the red Resume bookmark icon in the upper-right corner of the screen, you'll see the last page you viewed before jumping to the Table of Contents page.)
Rather than turn pages one at a time or jump to specific chapters or sections in an ebook, you might just want to jump to any page in your ebook. To jump to any page, follow these steps:
While reading an ebook in iBooks, flip through several pages, and tap a page.
Notice that the bottom of the screen displays the current page number, the total number of pages in the ebook, and how many pages are left in that particular chapter. In addition, a line of dots appears at the bottom of the screen, which represents the pages of the ebook. A current page icon (it looks like a brown square over one of the dots) can show you the relative position of the currently displayed page compared to the total number of pages in the ebook, as shown in Figure 26-6.
Place your finger over the current page icon and slide it left or right over the row of dots. As you slide the current page icon, a pop-up appears, telling you the current chapter (or section) and page number.
Lift your finger off the screen to view a page. Your chosen page now appears.
