Oh ow Yeah I have it set to on and all of that in my iPhone but when I buy something such as an iOS app on my mac it will not synch over at all to my iPhone no matter how long I wait. I tired with and with out 3g on. and I hear others have had this problem as well. Maybe it's operator error but I dunno. Cool on the IBooks thing btw
Take care and be blessed. On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > OK, I'm not sure why the automatic downloads feature is not working for you > and Will. I just tested this by going to Settings > Store on my iPhone 4 and > turning on the switch for Automatic Downloads of iBooks. Then I went to the > iBooks Store on my iPad, and "purchased" a free book, "Three Little Pigs" by > AudibleBooks. The book loaded on my iPad and also automatically downloaded > to my iPhone. > > Incidentally, to make this thread more interesting, I'll just state that the > sample book is apparently one of four children's books that Audible has > authored to make use of the multimedia options that were added to iBooks a > year ago. They're apparently testing this format and issued these as free > books since the start of the year. There are also 10 paid "Read Along" books. > They're not purely audio books, because they're aimed at children who are > learning to read (or being read to), so there is both text and pictures. On > the iPad there's an "Audio Options" button after the buttons for "Library" > and "Table of Contents", and before the buttons for "Brightness", "Search", > and "Bookmarks". This is where the "Appearance" button, which allows font > size, font type, theme selection, and brightness appears for most iBooks. > Double tapping "Audio Options" brings up a pop up menu with a volume slider > and two buttons under the "Read aloud" heading: "Turn Pages", which can be > double ta pp > ed and set to either "Manually" or "Automatically", and "Start Reading". > > These books are not designed to be read from the text with VoiceOver. VO > works, but there's a pause after every word. What's happening is that the > words are getting highlighted, one by one, as the story is read out, and > that's why this sounds choppy if you try to read through the text selection > with VoiceOver. There are illustrations included with the "Read Along" > series books, as you can determine by reading the descriptions and review > comments of the other offerings from AudibleBooks. The illustrations are not > described, the way the images are in "Winnie the Pooh", which was featured > for about a year as a free introduction to iBooks when the first generation > of the iPad launched. (This ebook hasn't been free for some time -- it shows > up as $10.99 now from Penguin as the publisher, so don't try to get it as a > free download.) > > I think that the app could be improved if low-vision users wanted to provide > feedback. At present, the "Read Along" series is quite usable on the iPad > with VoiceOver if you use the "Audio Options" control to start to "Read > aloud" and set it to automatically turn pages. (If the page turn is set to > "manually", the reading stops at the end of each page, waiting for you to > move onto the next page, which you could dow with the page chooser at the > bottom of the screen. If you really want to stop reading, a better option > would be to set page turning to be automatic, and then to double tap the > "Audio Options" button, and double tap "Stop Reading" in the pop up.) There > are no options for adjusting letter sizes on the page, because the reading is > done automatically, and the words are highlighted. But a low-vision parent > might want to be able to follow along with the highlighted words on the text > if he or she were reading the book with a child. > > Also, on the iPhone although the pop up worked to start reading, I couldn't > get rid of it when I double tapped "stop reading". I left it to read, then > quit the reading by navigating to the page chooser and change the page, and > then getting out to the other controls. > > Anyway, sorry for the digression. The bottom line is that the automatic > download feature works for me if I turn it on in Settings > Store. Maybe > someone else can chime in with their experience? And also, I did find this > test of one of the free "Read Along" books by AudibleBooks (spelled with no > space between "Audible" and "Books") to be interesting. If there are any > low-vision users on the list, they might want to provide Audible with some > feedback to improve the accessibility experience. These iBooks seem designed > for the iPad, but also work on the iPhone. They could just work better on > the iPhone. > > HTH. 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