Hello Paul, The iPad bookmark to the iPad User Guide in Safari accesses an HTML version of the User Guide. I'm not sure which link is used on new devices that come with iOS 7 already set up, but I use an accessible HTML version of these guides. For the iPad and iOS 7, the following URL will work in Safari on iOS devices: • Accessible iPad User Guide (HTML format, English) http://help.apple.com/ipad/7/en.lproj/
This version provides a series of links to the sections of the iPad User Guide for iOS 7, and if you select a link, it will access a web page with the links (or content) for the selected section. What I have always done under iOS, is add this guide to my iOS device home screen for quick access. If you use the accessible HTML version, using the format I gave above, and use the "add to home screen" button option from Safari, when your friend double taps the icon for this page that has been added to the home screen, Safari will open up at the URL that was added to the home screen. When I was first learning to use iOS (on a third generation iPod Touch in 2009), I put a link to the section on VoiceOver, or alternatively, to the "Learn VoiceOver Gestures" section of the accessible HTML version of the User Guide, onto my home screen. For example, if I wanted to create a link to the specific section on "VoiceOver" in the iPad User Guide for iOS 7, I would enter the URL I gave above, then navigate to the link for "Accessibility" and double tap to select it, then navigate to the link for "VoiceOver" under the Accessibility section and double tap to select it. (You can also access these links from Safari on your Mac, navigate to them, and then save the URL of the specific link you want). For the "VoiceOver" section of the iPad, the specific URL under the iPad User Guide for iOS 7 is: • VoiceOver section of the Accessible iPad User Guide for iOS 7: http://help.apple.com/ipad/7/en.lproj/iPad9a24710d.html (You can navigate to the link in Safari on your Mac, then use Command+L to highlight the URL in the address bar, Command+C to copy and then paste the URL into an email to yourself that you read on your iOS device so that double tapping the link will open Safari to that web page. I use the free SimpleNote app on my Mac to paste the links into a note that I can access from the free SimpleNote app on my iOS device, but you can transfer this any way you like, via email, some other notes app, Dropbox, etc.) To put an icon link to this web page on the iPad home screen: 1. Open Safari on your iOS device to the URL address you want to save to the home screen 2. Navigate to the "Share" button and double tap (e.g., do a four-finger double tap in the top half of the screen to navigate to the first element in the top left corner, then flick right a couple of times to the "Share button") 3. Flick right past the button options for "AirDrop", "Message", "Mail", "Twitter", "Facebook", "Bookmark", and "Add to Reading List" to the "Add to Home Screen" button and double tap. 4. In the "Add to Home" pop up menu flick right to the "Add" button and double tap. You have the option to flick past the "Add" button and change the label in the text field for this icon before you double tap it. The default name will be the title of the section or web page, so if I use the URL of the section of the guide on "VoiceOver" and add it to the home screen it will be named "VoiceOver". I could append a word like "Guide" to the text field, and this would be announced as "VoiceOver Guide", etc. Your iBooks Library contents are either in ePub or PDF format. If I wanted to add the current iPad User Guide to my iBooks library, I would access the free ePub version of the iPad User Guide for iOS 7.1: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipad-user-guide-for-ios-7/id709634245?mt=11 The ePub version offers better navigation options, but if you want the link to the PDF version of the iPad User Guide for iOS 7.1, you can download it from: http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1595/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf I'm not quite sure what you mean about creating a folder on the home screen containing iBooks, but you can certainly put web page links onto your home screen and organize them in to folders as Matthew indicated by by using the "Add to Home Screen" button under the "Share" button options. The advantage of using the accessible HTML version of the user guide that I linked above is that you can set up specific links to topics that you access frequently, like "Learn VoiceOver Gestures". For versions of the the accessible iPad User Guide in other languages, change the two-letter code from "en" for English to the appropriate code "fr" for French, "es" for Spanish, "it" for Italian, "de" for German, etc. so for French the URL would be • Accessible iPad User Guide (HTML format, French) http://help.apple.com/ipad/7/fr.lproj/ You can also do this for version of the iPhone User Guide and iPod Touch User Guide: • Accessible iPhone User Guide, iOS 7 (HTML format, English) http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/en.lproj/ • Accessible iPod Touch User Guide, iOS 7 (HTML format, English) http://help.apple.com/ipodtouch/7/en.lproj/ For iOS 6 change the "7" after the slash following the device name to "6". Follow the same instructions to change the language code. For iOS 6, in Safari you double tap the "Utilities" button in place of the "Share" button and flick right till you get to the "Add to Home Screen" button. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 10, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Paul Hopewell wrote: > Hello, > I am setting up an iPad for a friend. I am familiar with the iPhone but not > the iPad. > > the iPad has a bookmark in Safari which gives access to the iPad User Guide. > I have created a Books folder on the iPad home screen containing ibooks. I > would like to move the Safari bookmark for the iPad User Guide into my Books > folder so that my friend sees it just like another book. Is that possible? > > I can foresee other cases where it would be useful to move selected Safari > bookmarks into folders on the home screen. 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