Apple began taking preorders for the iPad this morning, and published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader, notes Wired.
It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a feature that caused Amazon’s Kindle to make the feature optional. Apple’s VoiceOver functionality — an accessibility tool that works in other parts of the iPad’s interface to help visually-impaired users — will also work to dictate e-books.
VoiceOver speaks 21 languages and works with all of the applications built into iPad.
Apple also says you’ll be able to use the iPad to read EPUB titles from sources outside of the iBooks store. Epub Books are available from Project Gutenberg, Bookglutton and Google Books, which have free e-books.
“The iBooks app uses the ePub format — the most popular open book format in the world,” Apple’s site reads. “That makes it easy for publishers to create iBooks versions of your favorite reads. And you can add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.
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