{"id":1886,"date":"2012-01-25T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2012-01-25T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:38:09","slug":"students-will-need-64gb-ipads-to-store-multiple-rich-media-ibooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/students-will-need-64gb-ipads-to-store-multiple-rich-media-ibooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Students will need 64GB iPads to store multiple rich media iBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple’s updated iBooks 2 app supports highly interactive multimedia textbooks created by the new free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X. iBooks Author’s EULA lock-in clause has raised a ruckus (see: Publish an ebook created using iBook Author & lock yourself in Apple-land forever<\/a>). However, there’s another problem that may be a showstopper for students and other people who want to use these multimedia iBook ebooks: Their iPad may not have enough storage space to house the ebook.
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\nLet’s take a look at the ebook from the reknowned biologist E.O. Wilson. Two sample chapters are available for download and viewing right now.<\/p>\n

E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth(National Edition)<\/a> (iTunes Store)<\/p>\n

This iBook includes video clips and interactive module which look great. These two chapters also weigh in at 965.2MB. The book’s prospectus (PDF<\/a>) the complete course is broken down into 7 units, consisting of 62 topics, which are supported by 204 interactive modules<\/em>. Assuming a “unit” is eqivalent to a chapter and that the introductory first chapter does not count as part of the 7 units, the completed book will have 8 chapters. If the remaining chapters have the similar multimedia content, the completed iBook may be 4GB large. People who use their iPads a lot (music, video, apps, user generated documents, ebooks, etc.) sometimes find the 16 and 32GB models can become short on space quickly. Students who want to have 4 books on an iPad will need at a 64GB for a comfortable fit.<\/p>\n

FYI: If you are interested in creating your own multimedia iBook, you can refer to the 14-screenshot how-to article I wrote for BYTE: How To Make A Textbook With Apple’s iBooks Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple’s updated iBooks 2 app supports highly interactive multimedia textbooks created by the new free iBooks Author software for Mac OS X. iBooks Author’s EULA lock-in clause has raised a ruckus (see: Publish an ebook created using iBook Author & lock yourself in Apple-land forever). However, there’s another problem that may be a showstopper for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,183,119],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-ipad","category-mobile-lifestyle","tag-ebooks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}