#IPAD PDF READER TWO PAGE VIEW UPGRADE#

#IPAD PDF READER TWO PAGE VIEW UPGRADE#

Please note that I hadn’t changed my book to show the smallest font size-this was something that happened as part of my iPad’s upgrade process. Simply increasing the font size will put your book back into a single, book-sized column. For the life of me I can’t imagine why I’d want my book to be displayed like a newspaper for any reason, but whatever, it’s a quick fix.

Then I Googled, and it took a surprising amount of digging to find that the Books app automatically goes into 2-column view when your text is set to the smallest font size. I dug and dug and couldn’t find a preference for “Make My Book As Annoying to Read as a Newspaper,” and I was getting pissy about it. For whatever reason, when I opened my book after the upgrade to iPadOS 14 I found it showing the book’s text in two columns in both portrait and landscape mode. I personally encountered this when I updated my iPad Pro 11-inch (2020) to iPadOS 14. In the image above, the 2-column view in Books app is shown on the left, while the same page in 1-column view is shown on the right. But, if you want to understand what’s going on, please read on for the details! That’s the fast and dirty answer for you, and if that’s all you want, you don’t need to read the rest of this Quick Tip. Maybe you like reading your books in newspaper columns, but if you’re like me you went scrambling to figure out where the heck that preference setting is-and then found there isn’t one.įortunately, it’s a quick fix. Apple’s Books app in iPadOS OS 13 and iPadOS 14 has an interesting interface quirk that can display your book’s text in two narrow columns like a newspaper.

Ipad pdf reader two page view