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by eridius 5104 days ago
"iBook" is an old plastic laptop that Apple used to sell. Things that iBooks can display are simply called "books" (or PDFs).
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Whew, glad I'm not the only one who remembered that. I saw the title and flashed back to 1999, where I was surrounded by lime green and bondi blue plastic clamshells.
Or "e-books."