One of the main purposes of the iPad since it was first announced more than a year ago and then launched months later, which we talked about a lot, is electronic reading and digital books that facilitate storage and reading in an effective, easy and comfortable way, as the iPad was preceded by another wonderful device, the Kindle of Amazon with limited features and within certain geographic locations (before that changes later). Then the iPad came to represent one of its main pillars as the e-reader project in terms of hardware or hardware as an advanced device with a suitable area and size, comfortable lighting and a compatible touch screen, as well as through programs or software through the iBooks bookstore, which includes thousands of free and paid books as well as through its program As an excellent e-reader, along with a number of other excellent e-reading programs such as Goodereads and others.

Also, what distinguished the iPad besides the support for the format for electronic books on tablets, the epub, is its support for the standard PDF format, which is carried by files for books that are not limited to their number on the Internet. Anyone who owns an iPad but tells me how comfortable he is reading on the iPad to the point of giving up reading from printed books at all!

However, the ePub format remains preferred in tablets, as it is a standard and internationally approved format, and because of the features it also provides, such as preserving rights, the ability to search for it, change the font, comment on books, and countless features that provide electronic readers for this format.

Where are the Arabs and the Arabic language from all of that? The presence started late and is still weak, but it is progressing steadily and with strong products, so despite the book store being empty of distinct Arabic books and the reluctance of publishing houses to take this step after most of them, we have gone through three distinct projects that contribute to pushing the process of reading and making Arabic books on the iPad in particular. And tablets in general, and we will review them with you here:

1. The first project:Encyclopedia of Arabic electronic books“Which identifies itself as the first Arab site for Arabic books in the ePub format, as this site has contributed effectively individually and collectively in converting the famous Arabic books to the standard ePub format that works on the iPad, iPhone and the rest of the supporting tablets and made it available for download through its previous site, where it adds them periodically and announces About that on the site, and the total of books reached seventy-five electronic books devoted in the ePub format

Also the site offers other services such as How to add an electronic book To your device step by step and in a picture, as well and most importantly How to create an e-book Create your own from scratch on the standard ePub format using Sigil, and the site doesn't forget to show you how Contribute to it By publishing electronic books written by you or sending them to other formats for them to convert.

2. The second project: It is called Which book Its mission is summarized by making it possible to create ePub books in three very easy steps through the interface of a site through a dedicated Wizard for this and start by entering basic book information such as the title of the book, the author and the number of chapters of the book, and the second step allows you to enter the titles and content of each chapter through the availability of an advanced text editor that allows you Edit and format this content and text of the book, then the third step in which you will upload your final book in ePub format that works on tablets.

3. The third project: a project Shelves It is somewhat different, as it focuses on the mechanism for reading and selling books, not the content of the book itself, meaning that it represents a store for Arabic books and an electronic reading program for it, as the original iBooks store on the iPad owned by Apple is not yet available to publishers in Arab countries, as the publisher should In it, he has a US tax number in it (i.e., a resident of America) or that he is heading to a third party publisher such as Lolo, for example, but his earnings at that time will be small as a result of twice deduction from his income from selling books in the store, one from Apple and the second from the third party.

So this promising project came, which is still in its infancy, and we are waiting for a lot of additions and features until it becomes similar to the i-box store.

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