When Stevie J. unveiled the iBooks application for iPad, I was quite excited. Not just because I could buy and read books from the iBookStore (though, nice) but because I could transfer any ePub-formatted book or document to my iPad and read it in the iBooks app. This was exciting to me partly because I’m writing an eBook for distribution on many eReader platforms (including the iPad) and was glad for the ability to test pilot the document, but also because I just enjoy that silly “page flipping” animation.

Read on for a full review, screenshots and a giveaway.