There's a saying that goes, "Leaders are readers." With iBooks, you can easily carry and read all types of books to help you become a better person, whether you want to read for work, pleasure, or education.

For those who purchased Amazon's Kindle and bought Kindle books, download the free Kindle app for your iPad, and you can transfer all your Kindle books to read in the Kindle app. Now your investment in Kindle books won't be a waste of money when you wind up carrying your iPad everywhere and leave your Kindle to collect dust in a closet somewhere.

If you have an existing collection of PDF ebooks, you'll want to find an ebook app that supports that format. Flip to Chapter 12 to read about how to find and install new applications.

As ebooks grow in popularity, you can expect to find more choices covering a wide variety of topics, so you should never run out of reading material, unless your iPad runs out of battery power first.