The company that started a new era of reading experience, has won the international design award in the category Apps for Excellent Communications Design.

Have you tried bionic reading already? 

Bionic reading is a free tool that brings an enhanced reading experience to your current e-reading device or app. How does it work?

Some parts of the words are displayed in bold text. As a result, you will be able to read faster and understand more.

The software is developed by the startup company Bionic Reading GmbH. The tool comes with an API, so that developers could create dedicated bionic apps and extensions.

The official Bionic Reading app is available for iPhone & iPad and Android. Currently, it’s free to use, but soon the company will offer a possibility to upgrade.

There are also dedicated apps for Mac and Windows. You can try bionic reading right in your browser, by going to the Bionic Reading web app. 

Most importantly, you can add bionic-formatted books to your reading app, for instance Amazon Kindle. All you have to do is open the Bionic Reading web app, add an ebook file (epub is now also accepted by Amazon), wait for a conversion, and add a converted file to the reading app of your choice.

The company that develops the Bionic Reading ecosystem has been awarded at the German Design Award 2023. It won in the category Apps for Excellent Communications Design.

Here is an excerpt from a jury announcement:

A fascinating tool that not only saves a lot of time, but also impressively shows what our brain is capable of.

⇢ Bionic Reading

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If you read on your iPad for long hours, you know this pain. Holding the device all the time is not convenient at all. Especially, if you switch positions frequently.

Obviously, you can always use accessories for hands-free reading.

However, they don’t solve another problem – the need to touch the display again and again. Ebooks are designed to make reading easier than ever before, right?

Fortunately, the iPad comes with a feature that allows you to swipe left with just your voice. 

The feature is called Voice Control. It sits in the Settings app, in Accessibility section.

Voice Control allows you to control your device by speaking commands. With Voice Control, you can open apps, perform touch gestures, create reminders, or make text edits – all with your voice. It is available in over 20 languages and works with several languages at once.

I will guide you through the process using a Kindle app for iPad. This tip also works for other book-reading apps, such as Kobo, Apple Books, Nook, or Google Play Books. 

And, obviously, you can use the following guide to enable the voice-operated page turn on your iPhone as well.

Place your iPad on a stand, grab a coffee in one hand, a donut in the other, and enjoy the newest novel from your favorite author to the fullest.

How to turn pages in Kindle iPad app using just your voice

How to use Voice Control to swipe left

1. Go to the Settings app, find “Accessibility” on the list, and then tap “Voice Control” to turn it on.

2. If you haven’t used Voice Control before, tap “Set Up Voice Control” at the top. A pop-up window will appear. Follow the steps to enable the setting. 

If you set up Voice Control before, just turn it on.

3. With Voice Control enabled, we now turn on the swipe left function.

Tap “Customize Commands” and then find “Basic Gestures” on the list. Tap to open it.

4. Scroll down the list to find “Swipe left” feature. Tap to enable it. 

Here, you can also decide whether you want a confirmation every time you perform the gesture. I would leave the confirmation step unchecked.

Done! From now on, every time you say “Swipe left” your Kindle app (or any other book-reading app) will turn a page. The trick works both in a portrait and landscape mode.

How to quickly enable and disable Voice Control

When the Voice Control setting is enabled, your iPad is listening all the time for voice prompts. It may drain the battery fast.

That’s why, it makes sense to enable the voice-operated page turn only for reading sessions, and disable it when you finish.

There is an easy way to enable/disable Voice Control. You can do it using the Control Center.

1. Go to the Settings app, find “Accessibility” on the list and tap it.

2. Scroll down the list of available options to find “Accessibility Shortcut” at the bottom. Tap it.

3. Scroll down the list of available options to find “Voice Control”. Tap to enable it.

Done! From now on, you can enable or disable “Swipe left” voice command via the Control Center. Swipe down from the top-right corner of the display, and tap Accessibility Shortcut in the Control Center widget.

Tip: If you don’t see Accessibility in the Control Center, you may need to add it to the list of visible options. Go to Settings app, then “Control Center”. On the “More Controls” list, find “Accessibility Shortcut” and tap it. Done!

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If you are looking for a quick and handy way to check out the dimension of your current iPad and compare it with other models, you have reached the right place.

In the tables below, you will find iPad dimensions in both inches and millimeters, accompanied by information about screen size, release year, and generation number.

For clarity, we have grouped the dimensions by model (for instance, iPad mini or iPad Air), so that you can quickly check out the differences in size. For each iPad series, we have also prepared a handy image that visually presents the dimensions of the latest-generation model.

Jump directly to:

• basic iPad dimensions
• iPad mini dimensions
• iPad Air dimensions
• iPad Pro (smaller model) dimensions
• iPad Pro (bigger model) dimensions

Why would you need iPad dimensions, after all? The main reason is to find out whether the case you are going to buy will fit the model you own.

Plus, in online stores like Etsy, you can get a sleeve or cover that’s made to order. The only thing to do is provide the case producer with exact dimensions of your specific model. It’s best to give the dimensions in both inches and millimeters.

Dimensions of iPad models – the complete list

Apple iPad dimensions

The following table includes dimensions of the basic iPad model, with screen sizes between 9.7 and 10.9 inches.

The latest iPad 10.9 released in 2022 is already included in the list.

You can buy the latest iPad 10.9 in an official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon, where the prices are approximately 5% lower than in the online Apple Store.

Apple iPad mini dimensions

Here is the list of dimensions of all generations of the smallest Apple tablet – iPad mini – including the latest model released in September 2021.

You can buy the latest iPad mini 6 in an official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon, where the prices are approximately 5% lower than in the online Apple Store.

Apple iPad Air dimensions

As the dimensions of the 4th and 5th-generation model are the same, you will be able to use your old Air 4 case with the newest Air 5 model, released in 2022.

Make sure to check out the latest iPad Air model in an official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon, where the prices are approximately 5% lower than in the online Apple Store. Plus, you can grab the older model at a discounted price.

Apple iPad Pro dimensions (smaller model)

The list includes the latest iPad Pro 11 which was released in October 2022. It has the same dimensions as the previous-generation 11-inch model launched in 2021.

Make sure to check out the latest iPad Pro 11 model in an official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon, where the prices are approximately 5% lower than in the online Apple Store. You can also grab the older model at a discounted price.

Apple iPad Pro dimensions (bigger model)

Here are the dimensions of largest and most advanced iPad model – iPad Pro 12.9. The 2022 generation is already included in the list.

It’s worth considering the latest iPad Pro 12.9 model in an official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon, where the prices are approximately 5% lower than in the online Apple Store.

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Got an iPad? Enjoy new books from Janet Evanovich, Ken Follett, John le Carré or Danielle Steel, using your favorite iPad or iPhone book reading app.

You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. You don’t need a Nook e-reader or tablet to read books from Barnes & Noble. You don’t need a Kobo to read Kobo books.

If you have an iPad, you can read books from your favorite ebook store by downloading a free app from the App Store. Or you can download a few book reading iPad apps and optimize the experience, as well as selection of books.

In the following list, you will see the books that are worth reading in the months to come. The roundup is based on several rankings and lists: Best Books of the Year according to Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Apple; the ranking of Top 100 bestsellers in the Kindle Store, Notable Books by The New York Times, as well as the hottest new releases of 2022.

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Under each title, you will see a shortened blurb, length (a number of pages of the print version), category, and release date. Most books have been published, and the rest can be already preordered. We provide links to four major book platforms: Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and Rakuten Kobo.

When picking up an e-reading platform for your iPad or iPhone, please keep in mind that only Apple Books app has a built-in bookstore, s hat you can buy books without leaving it. To buy books from other ebook platforms, you will have to use their respective websites.

Still don’t know which book app to use to read books on your iPad or iPhone? Here is a quick overview:

Apple Books – it’s Apple default e-reading app. The app is clear and easy to use and it offers not only ebooks, but also audiobooks. It’s the app that has the highest level of integration with iOS and iPadOS.

Amazon Kindle – the app will connect you with the largest and most advanced ebook platform in the world. It offers helpful features, such as X-Ray reference tool, Page Flip in-book navigation, or access to library ebooks.

Nook – the app is a convenient way to access and read Nook books that you have purchased in the Barnes & Noble online store. The platform offers 75 thousand free books from the public domain and you can get the instantly to the app.

Kobo Books – just like Apple Books, the Kobo app can handle both ebooks and audiobooks, so there is no need to download another app from a dedicated audiobook provider. The audiobooks player is beautifully designed, and its integrated with CarPlay.

Which book or books are you planning to read on your iPad, and with which app?

Best books for your iPad and iPhone in 2022

Clean(ish)

Gin Stephens

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fast. Feast. Repeat. Gin Stephens comes a new book that will help readers on real foods and a healthier home environment free of obvious toxins, without fixating on perfection. By living clean(ish), our bodies’ natural processes become streamlined and more effective, while we enjoy a vibrant life.

Instead of aiming for perfection (which is impossible) or changing everything at once (which is hard, and rarely leads to lasting results), you’ll cut through the confusion, lose the fear, and embrace the freedom that comes from becoming clean(ish).

As you learn how to lower your toxic load through small changes, smart swaps, and simple solutions, you’ll evolve simply and naturally toward a clean(ish) lifestyle that works for your body and your life!

• Category: Nutrition
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
• Print book length: 418 pages
• Release date: January 4, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The Man Who Died Twice

Richard Osman

From Richard Osman comes the second novel in the bestselling Thursday Murder Club mystery series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg.

The members of the club – Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim – are looking forward to a bit of peace after their recent murder case. They head to their posh retirement village to rest.

Soon after, an unexpected visitor arrives, desperate for their help. He’s been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men.

As night follows day, the first body is found. Can our four friends catch the killer before the killer catches them? And if they find the diamonds, too?

• Category: Mystery & Crime
• Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books
• Print book length: 365 pages
• Release date: September 28, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The Recovery Agent

Janet Evanovich

Besides Game On, the 28th book in the Stephanie Plum series, Janet Evanovich is releasing in 2022 a brand new book series that blends wild adventure, hugely appealing characters, and pitch-perfect humor.

In The Recovery Agent, the #1 New York Times bestselling author is introducing Gabriela Rose. She’s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She’s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types.

Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Cortez. But this particular job comes with a huge problem attached to it – Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him.

• Category: Humorous Fiction
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Print book length: 320 pages
• Release date: March 22, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Never

Ken Follett

The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.

• Category: Military Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 813 pages
• Release date: November 9, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones

In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years.

This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States.

The 1619 Project reveals truth around American society’s founding and construction – and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary life in the USA.

• Category: Black & African American History
• Publisher: One World
• Print book length: 539 pages
• Release date: November 16, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Silverview

John le Carré

In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years – the secret world itself.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor.

Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.

• Category: Espionage Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 223 pages
• Release date: October 12, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook

Smart Growth

Whitney Johnson

Whitney Johnson is the CEO of boutique consultancy WLJ Advisors and an expert on helping high-growth organizations develop high-growth individuals. In Smart Growth he shares tips helping people and organizations grow their potential and become the self they want to be.

But how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward.

The book explains the three phases of the growth: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and the High End. Compelling examples of successful people will show you when and why growth is slow, how to keep going, what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with, and how to leap from one growth journey to another.

• Category: Business Teams
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Print book length: 278 pages
• Release date: January 11, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson’s sweeping new novel transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of super storms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics.

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.

One man – visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T.R. Schmidt – has a big idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work?

• Category: Disaster Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 736 pages
• Release date: November 16, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Run, Rose, Run

Dolly Parton, James Patterson

From America’s most beloved superstar and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise and on the run, and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.

She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. Nashville is where she’s come to claim her destiny. It’s also where the darkness she’s fled might find her.

Lisa Gardner calls the novel “taut and exciting.” She appreciates Parton’s insider knowledge that’s cleverly combined with Patterson’s suspense mastery.

• Category: Southern Fiction
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Print book length: 448 pages
• Release date: March 7, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brené Brown

In Atlas of the Heart, Brené Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human.

As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances.

Brené Brown believes that if we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is what Atlas of the Heart is about.

• Category: Personal Success
• Publisher: Random House
• Print book length: 318 pages
• Release date: November 30, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The Sentence

Louise Erdrich

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman’s relentless errors.

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store.

Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention,” must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

• Category: Ghost Fiction
• Publisher: Harper
• Print book length: 416 pages
• Release date: November 9, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Quicksilver

Dean Koontz

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past.

Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery – abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money.

And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life.

• Category: Conspiracy Thrillers
• Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
• Print book length: 365 pages
• Release date: January 25, 2022

⇢ Kindle

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them

Barbara F. Walter

In How Civil Wars Start, a leading political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the dramatic rise in violent extremism around the globe and sounds the alarm on the increasing likelihood of a second civil war in the United States.

Barbara F. Walter has spent her career studying civil conflict in places like Iraq and Sri Lanka, but now she has become increasingly worried about her own country.

Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger?

• Category: History of Individual Wars
• Publisher: Crown
• Print book length: 306 pages
• Release date: January 11, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Flying Angels

Danielle Steel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, comes a World War II story that brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes.

Risking their lives on perilous missions, they join the elite Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron and fly into enemy territory almost daily to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

Audrey and Lizzie make enormous sacrifices to save lives alongside an extraordinary group of nurses: Alex, who longs to make a difference in the world; Louise, a bright mind who faced racial prejudice growing up in the South; Pru, a selfless leader with a heart of gold; and Emma, whose confidence and grit push her to put everything on the line for her patients.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Print book length: 288 pages
• Release date: November 23, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

Arnold Weinstein

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the author of The Lives of Literature, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages.

Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, the book explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit.

Mixing passion and humor, this personal work of literary criticism demonstrates how the greatest books illuminate our lives.

• Category: Literary Criticism
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Print book length: 350 pages
• Release date: January 18, 2022

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The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles’s third novel tells the story of eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson who has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.

Emmett’s intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden’s car.

Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett’s future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction – to the City of New York.

• Category: Coming of Age Fiction
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 588 pages
• Release date: October 5, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

Philipp Dettmer

Immune is a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.

Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days.

Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer.

Philipp Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.

• Category: Anatomy Science
• Publisher: Random House
• Print book length: 312 pages
• Release date: November 2, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife.

Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face.

As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain.

• Category: Political fiction
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
• Print book length: 287 pages
• Release date: September 21, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk

The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest – begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following.

In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect’s secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs.

• Category: Metaphysical Fiction
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Print book length: 992 pages
• Release date: February 1, 2022

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

A highly anticipated novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.

The book’s plot is set in three dimensions: Constantinople in the fifteenth century; a small town in present-day Idaho; an interstellar ship decades from now.

Constantinople. Thirteen-year-old Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story.

In a near future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon. She has never set foot on our planet.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Scribner
• Print book length: 637 pages
• Release date: September 28, 2021

⇢ Apple ⇢ Kindle ⇢ Nook ⇢ Kobo

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These innovative power banks, sleeves, home appliances, and desktop accessories will help you make the most of your current and future iPads.

The problem with dedicated accessories is that you can usually use them with just one iPad model.

As a result, to make the most of your iPad, you pay not just for the device itself, but also a case cover, an Apple Pencil, and a number of other accessories.

Suddenly, you look at your bank account and notice that in total, your iPad costs $100 or $200 more.

Why not take a different approach and invest in accessories which you would be able to use for a much longer time, with more devices than the iPad you currently own?

Start from defining your needs – and forget about your iPad for a while. How do you want to improve the way you use your mobile device? Are your expectations and habits evolving? Will you have similar needs in five years? Do the same needs apply to your other electronic appliances?

The following list includes accessories that are compatible with all current iPads, from iPad mini 6 to the largest iPad Pro 12.9-inch models.

You will find below versatile power banks and battery packs, comfortable pillow stands, advanced sleeve bags, cozy home appliances, and clever desktop accessories.  

The best thing about these gadgets is that they are universal and advanced enough to serve you in the next few years. And you can use them not only with your iPad, but also the iPhone, and even the MacBook. Sounds like you can save a lot of money!

Which one do you find the most useful?

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Best iPad accessories for current and future models

1. 6-in-1 Swiss Army cable key ring

▸ This little accessory can solve all your cable compatibility issues. It’s the Swiss Army knife in the cable category – the cable key ring from inCharge.

▸ This clever cable hub features four different types of cable inputs / outputs, covering most connectivity possibilities you may ever have.

▸ The inCharge 6 Swiss Army cable ring is extremely compact and easy to use and carry. When folded, it can be attached to your key ring. It is made of zinc-aluminum alloy metal, TPU cable guard, and 90 braided copper wires.

▸ What’s important, the inCharge cable hub supports the power transfer between two smartphones – just choose the right heads to connect.

▸ You can choose from three colors (Mercury Gray, Saturn Gold, and Moon White). The price at the time of updating this post is $19.99.

⇢ Amazon

2. 100W iPad and MacBook thin tablet power bank with 2 USB-C ports

▸ If you are looking for an effective tool to charge not only your iPad but also MacBook, you should look for a tablet-first battery-pack.

▸ From Baseus comes a power bank that’s tailored to charge tablets and laptops. Its main visual point of difference is the ultra-flat design – it’s only 0.7 in (17 mm) thick. Thanks to that, you can easily put it into the MacBook bag or your iPad sleeve.

▸ The capacity of the power bank is “only” 20000mAh, but when it comes to more power-hungry devices, the main factor is not the capacity but power output. And this power bank offers 100W. It means you can charge not only all iPad or iPad Pro models, but also your MacBook or MacBook Pro.

▸ The 20000mAh capacity is also suitable, if you want to take the power bank with you to the plane. As I mentioned in the facts section of this overview, only two power banks with a combined capacity no higher than 27000mAh are allowed on board.

▸ What’s most important, the battery pack features two in-out USB-C ports supporting 100W output. As a result, you can charge two large devices at the same time, be it your iPad and MacBook. It will take about 30 minutes to charge the battery of the 16-inch MacBook Pro to 35%.

▸ The list price of Baseus iPad-friendly power pack is $130, but any time I checked the product page, the price was down to $99.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon

3. Retractable power strip with multiple USB ports

▸ Sometimes you have to recharge many devices at the same time – your iPad, MacBook, or Apple Watch – and a single power bank or compact power charger are simply not enough.

▸ What’s more, if you travel a lot, you know how hard it’s sometimes to find a power socket that’s easy to access. You need a power strip with a longer cord.

▸ What’s the perfect travel power strip? You may choose different port combinations, but one thing should be common: a cord that’s retractable or foldable. It makes it easy to manage all the gear if you have the cables in order.

▸ From Sarmert comes a power strip that’s compact (thanks to the round shape), and features a 3.3 feet extension cord that you can fold around.

▸ The charger is equipped with as many as five power outlets, but most importantly, you can use two standard USB ports, and one USB-C port.

▸ The price of the power strip at the time of updating the post is set at $31.99. It often it goes below $30, reaching $25.

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4. Foldable spider-leg stand – perfect for reading in bed

▸ Most stands can raise the device only a bit. What if you wanted to place your iPad at the eye level?

▸ Take a look at the clever stand from Tablift. It has a construction which resembles a four-legged spider, and on the top there is a sturdy holder.

▸ The legs are flexible, and you can form them to raise the device much higher than any standard holder. Most importantly, the legs can be folded together to take as little space as possible.

▸ The holder lets you mount a tablet of up to 13 inches, so it can fit any iPad model, including the largest 12.9-inch Pro. The slots allow positioning of the tablet at three different angles.

▸ Tablift is a great way to watch hands-free in bed, especially if you want to avoid placing anything directly on your stomach.

▸ From time to time the price drops to under $30, but regularly, you can buy it at $34.99. It may, however, go up to even $40 during annual shopping seasons (Black Friday and Prime Day).

Our score: 7.9/10

⇢ Amazon

5. 100% waterproof iPad bag

▸ A standard case can surely protect your iPad against scratches and dust, but it won’t guarantee a reliable resistance against water. Now, imagine you are suddenly in the middle of a heavy storm or accidentally land in the water.

▸ Unlike the iPhone, your iPad – no matter which model you have – is not waterproof. And I doubt that the next iPad models will ever feature any reasonable water resistance.

▸ Getting a 100% waterproof sleeve or bag that would work with your iPad (as well as any device you will have in the future) seems like a reasonable decision.

▸ The top brand in this field is AquaQuest. They offer a versatile and protective Typhoon bag that guarantees 100% protection against water. 

▸ Typhoon’s main compartment sports 20,000 mm hydrostatic resistance. Plus, there is an inner neoprene sleeve to ensure an added shock and liquid protection.

▸ This messenger bag is super durable. It’s made of 420D ripstop nylon, with welded seams and dual coatings of premium TPU material. Plus, there are MOLLE-style webbing loops that provide external attachment points.

▸ The case is available in two sizes: 13″ (perfect for your iPad) and 15″ (for most MacBooks, except the 16-inch Pro). There are six colors to choose from, including Camo and Green.

▸ AquaQuest gives lifetime warranty for the Typhoon messenger bag. The current price is $59.99.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon

6. Powerful solar charger for electricity-free reading life

Our pick: Best solar panel system compatible with iPad

▸ iPad, and especially Pro models, drain the battery fast. You will usually have to recharge them every night. What if you’re on the go and can’t find a power outlet?

▸ With the new solar charger from FlexSolar, you can stay in a mountain cabin for days, and the presence of the power outlet is not mandatory. Oh, and you will be able to recharge your iPhone, too.

▸ Most solar power banks can be recharged via solar panels only in emergencies. Their panels are small, and it takes ages to recharge the power bank enough to recharge the destination device.

▸ This 15W three-panel solar charger will make you fully independent of electricity suppliers. It can be easily folded and squeezed into a backpack, and comes with buckles to attach it where it will be most exposed to sun beams.

▸ The panels are highly efficient. The producer claims the charger converts up to 24% of solar power in favorable sunlight conditions.

▸ The special polymer surface protects the panels from water and dust. Plus, the ports are protected with sturdy rubber covers to offer the overall IP67 waterproof level.

▸ To recharge your iPad, we recommend getting the 30W variant, which costs $55.99.

Our score: 8.1/10

⇢ Amazon

7. Numeric keyboard compatible with iPad and Mac

Our pick: Best iPad-compatible numeric keyboard

▸ Are you planning to buy a keyboard case or a keyboard for your iPad? What’s the main reason? Is it the size of the on-display keyboard or the lack of function and numeric keys?

▸ Sometimes all you need to improve typing on your iPad is a keypad that extends the virtual on-screen keyboard with most used number keys. Such a keypad would be useful not only for your iPad mini, but also a MacBook laptop.

▸ From Macally comes a highly popular Bluetooth keypad that includes 35 keys you may use most often, including numbers, function keys, page down/up, and arrows.

▸ The keypad is designed in the fashion of Apple keyboards and is compatible not only with iPad and iPhone, but also Mac, Windows, and Android – something that will serve you not for just one year and one model.

▸ The Macally numeric keyboard features a built-in 300 mAh rechargeable battery that lasts up to 1 month of average usage.

▸ The price at the time of updating this roundup is set at $35.99, but it’s a limited-time deal. The regular price is $49.99.

Our score: 7.9/10

⇢ Amazon

8. Charging station with wireless pad and USB-C port

Our pick: Best charging station for iPad

▸ If you are going to buy a charging station that would handle all your mobile devices, be it the new iPad, iPhone, digital camera, or a Kindle, make sure to pick up the one that comes with the most updated features.

▸ Usually, the most popular charging stations on Amazon are not the newest ones – it takes time to collect ratings and reviews. So, instead of going for a popular charger with 2,000 reviews and no USB-C port, take a look at the one that’s more useful.

▸ I have picked up a charger that’s nicely designed and sports two features. It has a 15W wireless charging pad for your iPhone and other device that supports wireless charging. Most importantly, the station has a 3A USB-C port.

▸ The charger comes with a built-in Smart Flow Technology, which intelligently identifies and distributes current for connected devices.

▸ In total, you can charge 5 devices simultaneously: 1 on a pad, 1 with USB-C, and 3 with USB-A ports. A nice little idea is that the cradles for devices are detachable.

▸ The list price is set at $32.99, but we have noticed price drops to the level below $25.

⇢ Amazon

9. Tactical MOLLE pouch – great for iPad accessories

▸ Even if you limit the number of electronics and accessories, it may turn out that you there are still so many that you need a special way to store them, especially when you plan a long trip.

▸ An obvious solution is a travel organizer bag. There are over 20,000 items on Amazon matching this phrase. I found a better idea. It turned out that the most suitable organizer for my power banks, cables, and chargers is an army MOLLE pouch.

▸ A tactical admin MOLLE pouch from Wynex has enough pulls to put inside all iPad and iPhone accessories and secure them. It is closed by double zippers with pulls, allowing you to open up completely to the bottom.

▸ External straps can be used to attach the pouch to the bicycle’s handle so that the powerbank that’s inside is close enough to charge your iPhone mounted to the handlebar.

▸ Wynex pouch is made of 1,000-D military grade Cordura fabric coated with DWR (Durable Water Repellent). Thanks to that, it’s moisture resistant and gives an extra layer of protection.

▸ The pouch is available in several colors. If you want to avoid looking military, just pick up the black variant.

▸ The price at the time of updating this post is $14.99. Please keep in mind that the pouch can hold iPad accessories, not an iPad itself.

⇢ Amazon

10. Compact 20W 32000mAh power bank with built-in cables

▸ Although offering as much as 32000mAh of electric charge, this external iPhone and iPad compatible battery pack is extremely compact. It measures 5.7 in (14.5 cm) and weighs 15.9 ounces (450 grams).

▸ The biggest benefit of this particular model are two built-in cables that come with three plugs. One cable ends with a Lightning plug for your iPhone. The cable on the other side is equipped with USB-C and micro USB plugs. Thanks to that, you won’t need to take with you any cables – these three plugs are compatible with most mobile devices.

▸ The 20W power output delivered via the Type-C port means that the power bank can handle even the most power consuming iPad Pro models that come with 20W power adapters.

▸ The power bank is equipped with as many as 13 safety features including the ones protecting against overcharge, overheat, and short circuit. Thanks to that, the life’s battery is prolonged, and the power bank is more stable. It can perform 400 high-cycle recharge tests, and the battery will still offer the 80% capacity.

▸ The regular price of the power bank is $49, but at the time of updating this overview, we see it dropped to $38.

⇢ Amazon

11. Waterproof, roll-top Faraday backpack

▸ Faraday Defense Store offers on Amazon a solid and sturdy roll-top backpack that sports all the benefits of the Faraday bag.

▸ This Faraday bag is effectively blocking Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, RFID and cellular (including 5G) communication of signals to and from the devices stored inside. It’s a perfect solution to carry your iPad, iPhone, MacBook, and any other device you want to protect from data theft.

▸ The bag is designed for military and law enforcement investigators, government agencies, and data security professionals, but can be used by anyone. The only barrier is a high price.

▸ Signal blocking is achieved thanks to a three-layer construction of specialized metal-plated fabric containing copper and nickel elements, called Faraday CYBER NC Fabric. Thanks to that advanced fabric, the backpack dissipates signals coming from both exterior and interior sources.

▸ The bag is water-resistant, features Tarpaulin exterior, and measures 16 × 11 × 6 inches when closed. It comes with a dual clip closure, and sports mesh side pockets.

▸ The price at the time of writing the post is set at $139.99. We haven’t recorded any price drop yet.

⇢ Amazon

12. Fashionable portfolio bag – perfect for iPad

Our pick: The best hard cover sleeve bag for iPad

▸ If you are looking for an accessory that would accommodate more than just iPad, think about a portable bag that comes with several compartments and pockets, but still has the size of a mobile device.

▸ The bag from Tomtoc is intended for devices no larger than 12.9-inch, so it will fit any iPad, unless Apple comes with something bigger than 13 inches.

▸ Tomtoc Portfolio combines a rugged EVA hard shell with soft microfiber lining to protect against bumps and scratches. Water-repellent fabric provides protection even on a rainy day.

▸ The patented ergonomic groove design and comfortable grip make it easier to carry on without drops, even if you want to avoid using the built-in handle.

▸ Inside, there are multiple compartments. You can use the main one for your iPad, print book, or a notebook. Elasticized segments provide tight grip for cables, Airpods, and other small accessories.

▸ Tomtoc offers one year worry-free guarantee. Plus, you will benefit from friendly customer service available via email and phone.

▸ You can choose from several colors, including Mixed Orange (shown above), Avocado, Gray, and Caramel.

▸ The lowest price we recorded was $29.99. Currently, it’s set at $44.99. As this is a highly popular product, you may not see a considerable price drop any time soon.

⇢ Amazon

13. 50000mAh battery pack with USB-C input-output port

Our pick: The best power bank to charge both the iPhone and iPad

▸ This is one of the most powerful and reliable battery packs that are currently available on the web. It offers 50000mAh capacity which is enough to charge an iPhone 11 as many as 10 times, and an 11-inch iPad Pro (2021 release) 3 times.

▸ There are 4 ports to charge your devices and 3 ports to charge the power bank itself. It’s worth noting that the USB-C port is two-way – you can use it both for energy input and output. 

▸ The fast USB-C output port combined with 18W power output will let you quickly charge not only your iPhone (all models) but also the iPad, even if you have the model that comes with a 20 W power adapter. It will just take a bit more time to fully charge it.

▸ Additionally, the power bank is equipped with an ultra-bright flashlight. There is also a small display showing the battery level – a helpful feature if you want to plan ahead when you should recharge the battery pack.

▸ The power bank is offered on Amazon by Nuxgal. The company offers a free replacement of the product one you encounter any problems, plus there is an 18-month warranty.

▸ The price at the time of updating this post is $48, but it will go up to $53 after the limited-time offer ends.

Our score: 8.1/10

⇢ Amazon

14. Lap desk and bed tray in one

▸ Are you looking for an accessory that will let you comfortably read and write on your iPad while you are staying in bed or sitting on a sofa?

▸ This laptop desk is combined with a bed tray, and features an adjustable stand. Just raise the surface and place your iPad to adjust the reading angle.

▸ This kind of accessory can meet most of your needs. When you want, you can use it for a Sunday breakfast in bed, working on a laptop, or reading a magazine – be it in print or on your iPad.

▸ The right side of the desk stays flat, and you can place here a cup of coffee and a blow of marshmallows. Plus, there is also a mesh storage compartment for office accessories, a bottle of water, or a thermal mug.

▸ The laptop desk can be fully folded so that you can put it into a wardrobe. It’s worth mentioning that this specific model comes with adjustable-height legs.

▸ The price of the tray at the time of writing this post is $38. It is worth noting that the product is currently offered at a lower price.

⇢ Amazon

15. Vintage-style Bluetooth speaker with flashlight

Our pick: Best speaker for active iPad users

▸ There are many portable Bluetooth speakers that are waterproof, but if you think about getting a speaker camping, hiking, or extreme sports, don’t buy a speaker that’s good for a shower.

▸ Best outdoor speakers should not only be water resistant, but also offer a rugged construction and resist both dirt and shock.

▸ Meet the small beast from Muzen. With IPX-5 waterproof index, the device has a compact size, but comes with a premium speaker that provides a powerful, clear, and nuanced 360 degree stereo sound.

▸ The speaker has a cool vintage look of the classic military-grade devices from the analog era, with a speaker grill, power / Bluetooth switch, and a prominent steel volume knob.

▸ The speaker comes with a hook so that you can attach it to the backpack or inside a tent. There is also a flashlight that comes with three modes: high beam, low beam, and SOS blinking.

▸ The built-in lithium battery is enough for up to 8 hours of continuous playback.

▸ The speaker from Muzen is designed to be a perfect gift. It comes in a gift box, ready to be given to the music and adventure lover in your life.

▸ This tough, heavy-duty speaker is compatible with your iPad and iPhone. It costs $109,99, but we’ve seen the price go below $100 already.

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16. Tablet pillow stand with adjustable phone arm

Our pick: Most innovative pillow stand for iPad

▸ This unique pillow stand will be extremely helpful if you want to use your iPhone and iPad at the same time, for instance, when taking notes during video meetings.

▸ The patented construction includes a flexible arm – a unique feature in the tablet pillow category. It’s where you can put your iPhone and rotate it by 360 degrees. The arm is a way to place the smartphone exactly at the eye level.

▸ The cozy pillow is the base of the accessory. It’s filled with odorless foam pellets so that it can change its shape to closely fill the contact surface. The pillow’s cover is made of stretchy and breathable Lycra fabric.

▸ You can place your iPad in the base thanks to a special tablet hook. You can adjust the viewing angle by moving the flexible arm up and down.

▸ The price of this pillow stand is currently set at $55, and I expect slight price drops during each major shopping event on Amazon.

Our score: 8.1/10

⇢ Amazon

17. Powerful 60000mAh 22.5W battery pack for iPhone and iPad

▸ With the capacity of 60000mAh, this battery pack beast from Romoss is among the most powerful power banks that are currently offered online.

▸ The producer claims that on average, you can use it for three weeks on one charge. You can recharge the power bank with the 9V 2A power adapter in less than 16 hours.

▸ Romoss offers 22.5W power output (enough for any iPad) and PD 3.0 fast charging via USB-C port. It can recharge your iPhone 12 times, and the iPad Pro (the model is not specified) – even 4 times.

▸ Please keep in mind that, while looking pretty slim, this power bank is not lightweight. It weighs 2.9 pounds (1.3 kilograms).

▸ The red-colored LED display will let you check out the charging status, voltage, and remaining battery level.

▸ The list price is set at $90, but you can get it for under $70 pretty often.

⇢ Amazon

18. Steampunk candle light and speaker in one

Our pick: Best bedroom iPad accessory

▸ Do you like reading on your iPad before going to sleep? Do you like listening to audiobooks or playing music in your bedroom? Why not getting an accessory that will meet most of your needs?

▸ This steampunk lamp combines innovative features and a gorgeous vintage look. It operates in two modes. One is a warm light. The other one is a flickering candle (I love this one!). You can adjust the light brightness by rotating a switch in the base of the lamp.

▸ The wireless speaker supports Bluetooth 4.2 technology. Many reviewers have pointed out that it gives a surprisingly crisp and powerful sound.

▸ How long is the playing time? This steampunk, battery operated lamp & speaker can play music or audiobooks for up to 8 hours at the maximum volume!

▸ The price at the time of updating this post is set at $32.99. We have seen a few price drops already.

Our score: 8.2/10

⇢ Amazon

19. Cozy pillow stand with 6 reading positions

Our pick: Most versatile pillow stand for iPad

▸ From Lamicall comes one of the best solutions for hands-free reading or watching, and it’s compatible with all iPad models. You can also use it with MacBook Pro.

▸ The stand is cozy but extremely stable. It has strong resilience, but at the same time is hard to deform. Therefore, it can be used on any surface, be it a desk, bed, sofa, or your laps.

▸ Best of all, it combines a convenience of a pillow with features typical for desktop stands: multi-angle functionality.

▸ You can place your iPad, MacBook, or e-reader on each of the two sides, where there are three grooves that are deep enough to firmly hold not only your device, but also an opened print book.

▸ I have bought the stand for $24.99, and it’s a fair price for this innovative and sturdy pillow. If you see the price reaching $30, simply bookmark the product in your browser, and come back in a few days (weeks, to the most) to see it reduced to the usual level.

Our score: 8.5/10

⇢ Amazon

20. Slim magnetic cable organizer

Our pick: Best cable organizer for iPad and other Apple devices

▸ Wireless charging pads are a way to conveniently charge your mobile devices and avoid cable mess. However, these pads are expensive and compatible only with selected devices.

▸ There is another, much cheaper, way to reduce cable mess. You can get a clever organizer that will keep all the cables organized and within the reach of your hand. Reduce the space used by cables, get more space for your gadgets.

▸ Take a look at the magnetic cable holder and organizer from Anker. This slim design is using magnets to keep the cables in place. You can attach MagSafe or iPhone Lighting cables directly, while other cables can be attached using magnetic clips.

▸ You can stick the Anker Magnetic Cable Holder to any flat surface, for instance the desk or bedside table, thanks to the strong adhesive sticks.

▸ You can restick and reuse the holder any time. Simply detach it, wash the adhesive, dry, and stick to another surface. You can change your mind even ten times!

▸ The Anker cable organizer is available in three colors: White, Black, and Navy Blue. It costs $12.99 regularly, but I’ve noticed price cuts already. A 2-pack is available for $29.99.

Our score: 8.3/10

⇢ Amazon

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Here are the best books for your e-reader and app, from Danielle Steel, Anthony Doerr, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Ken Follett, and Jenny Colgan.

Are you looking for the most anticipated books you could add to your autumn and winter 2021 reading list?

Hundreds of books are being published every day, and autumn is the most intense season when it comes to new book releases. How to find the best reads without spending too much time on it?

The end-of-year book lists have not been released, yet, but it’s never too early to start a cozy winter reading season.

We have rounded up 12 most interesting books due to be released in autumn and winter 2021 (and some already published, too).

Among them, you will find our favorite: Flying Angels by Danielle Steel, a World War II story that brings together six remarkable young flight nurses who fly into enemy territory to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

My personal pick is a collection of stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist, a return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

If you love Ken Follet, you will be excited to read the master’s latest novel, Never – an action-packed, globe-spanning drama following a group of professionals struggling to prevent the outbreak of the new world war.

As usual, the list includes a quick blurb, release date, category, publisher, number of pages, and links to leading ebook stores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple Books.

Which books are you going to read this winter or give as a gift to a book lover in your life?

Best ebooks for your winter 2021-22 reading list

Cloud Cuckoo Land

September 28

Anthony Doerr

A highly anticipated novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See.

The book’s plot is set in three dimensions: Constantinople in the fifteenth century; a small town in present-day Idaho; an interstellar ship decades from now.

Constantinople. Thirteen-year-old Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky.

Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story.

In a near future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon. She has never set foot on our planet.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Scribner
• Print book length: 637 pages

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Silverview

October 12

John le Carré

In his last completed novel, John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years – the secret world itself.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor.

Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian’s family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise.

• Category: Espionage Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 223 pages

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The Christmas Bookshop

October 26

Jenny Colgan

A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas at the Island Hotel.

Laid off from her department store job, Carmen has perilously little cash and few options. The prospect of spending Christmas with her perfect sister Sofia, in Sofia’s perfect house with her perfect children and her perfectly ordered yuppie life does not appeal.

Frankly, Sofia doesn’t exactly want her prickly sister Carmen there either. But Sofia has yet another baby on the way, a mother desperate to see her daughters get along, and a client who needs help revitalizing his shabby old bookshop. So Carmen moves in and takes the job.

• Category: Friendship Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 335 pages

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The Last Noel & Secret Surrogate

October 26

Heather Graham and Delores Fossen

From Harlequin Bestselling Author Collection comes a special volume that includes two reader-favorite holiday romance: The Last Noel by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, and Delores Fossen’s Secret Surrogate.

The story of The Last Noel follows the O’Boyle family who become prey to a pair of brutal escaped killers desperate to find refuge. Skyler O’Boyle’s one hope for rescue is that the men are unaware that her daughter, Kat, has escaped into the blizzard.

When Kat stumbles on a third felon, half-frozen and delirious, she recognizes him immediately. What is Craig Devon, the onetime love of her life, doing in such company? Craig is desperate to unload a crucial secret that could change their destiny.

• Category: Holiday Romance
• Publisher: Harlequin
• Print book length: 340 + 256 pages

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The Secret of Snow

October 26

Viola Shipman

When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny’s been avoiding since the day she left for college—her northern Michigan hometown.

Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood… with the added humiliation of moving back in with her mother.

To distract herself from the memories she’s spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny throws herself headfirst into covering every small-town winter event. But with someone trying to undermine her efforts to rebuild her career, Sonny must make peace with who she used to be and allow her heart to thaw if she’s ever going to find a place she can truly call home.

• Category: Holiday Fiction
• Publisher: Graydon House
• Print book length: 372 pages

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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive

November 2

Philipp Dettmer

Immune is a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think about your body, from the creator of the popular science YouTube channel Kurzgesagt.

Second only to the human brain in its complexity, it is one of the oldest and most critical facets of life on Earth. Without it, you would die within days.

Each chapter delves into an element of the immune system, including defenses like antibodies and inflammation as well as threats like bacteria, allergies, and cancer.

Philipp Dettmer reveals why boosting your immune system is actually nonsense, how parasites sneak their way past your body’s defenses, how viruses work, and what goes on in your wounds when you cut yourself.

• Category: Anatomy Science
• Publisher: Random House
• Print book length: 312 pages

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Never

November 9

Ken Follett

The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it’s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day.

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election.

• Category: Military Thrillers
• Publisher: Viking
• Print book length: 813 pages

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

November 9

David Graeber and David Wengrow

The Dawn of Everything is a dramatically new understanding of human history. The book is challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution – from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality.

Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there.

If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to?

The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume.

• Category: History of Anthropology
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Print book length: 702 pages

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The Sentence

November 9

Louise Erdrich

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman’s relentless errors.

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store.

Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading “with murderous attention,” must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

• Category: Ghost Fiction
• Publisher: Harper
• Print book length: 416 pages

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Termination Shock

November 16

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson’s sweeping new novel transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of super storms, rising sea levels, global flooding, and deadly pandemics.

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming.

One man – visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T.R. Schmidt – has a big idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work?

• Category: Disaster Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 736 pages

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The City of Mist: Stories

November 23

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind.

Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet.

A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves.

• Category: Magical Realism
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Print book length: 208 pages

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Flying Angels

November 23

Danielle Steel

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, comes a World War II story that brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes.

Risking their lives on perilous missions, they join the elite Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron and fly into enemy territory almost daily to rescue wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

Audrey and Lizzie make enormous sacrifices to save lives alongside an extraordinary group of nurses: Alex, who longs to make a difference in the world; Louise, a bright mind who faced racial prejudice growing up in the South; Pru, a selfless leader with a heart of gold; and Emma, whose confidence and grit push her to put everything on the line for her patients.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Print book length: 288 pages

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Get ready for a long winter with exciting reads from George R.R. Martin, Michelle Obama, John Grisham, Veronica Roth, or Cormac McCarthy.

This winter is going to be full of books, hot tea, and candles. On October 18, 2022, alone, as many as five sure-fire ebook bestsellers were released.

Among them, you will find the newest novel by John Irving, the first one in seven years. The Last Chairlift is a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

Paul Newman’s biography, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, is culled from thousands of pages of transcripts, based on conversations between Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern.

Lee Child and Andrew Child released the new Jack Reacher novel, No Plan B, just in time to meet the hype caused by the Amazon Prime Reacher TV series starring Alan Ritchson.

Veronica Roth returns with a new dystopian novel, following the poster girl of the oppressive regime. She is imprisoned by revolutionaries for ten years but can earn her freedom if she finds a missing girl who was stolen by the old regime.

Plus, there is a new memoir by Michelle Obama (The Light We Carry), an illustrated history of the Targaryen Dynasty (The Rise of the Dragon by George R.R. Martin), and, my favorite, The Philosophy of Modern Song – Bob Dylan’s poignant and profound essays that are ostensibly about music, but include meaningful reflections on the nature of the human condition.

As usual, the list includes a quick blurb, release date, category, publisher, number of pages, and links to leading ebook stores: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Apple Books.

Which books are you going to read this winter or give as a gift to a book lover in your life?

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Best hot new ebook releases for winter 2022-23

The Boys from Biloxi

October 18

John Grisham

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends. As teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor. Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs.

The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom.

Life itself hangs in the balance in The Boys from Biloxi, a sweeping saga that’s rich with history and with a large cast of unforgettable characters.

• Category: Legal Thrillers
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Print book length: 453 pages

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Poster Girl

October 18

Veronica Roth

#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman’s desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime.

For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action.

Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city.

Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom.

• Category: Dystopian Fiction
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 288 pages

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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man

October 18

Paul Newman

In 1986, Paul Newman and his closest friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern, began an extraordinary project. Stuart was to compile an oral history, to have Newman’s family and friends and those who worked closely with him, talk about the actor’s life. And then Newman would work with Stewart and give his side of the story.

The result is an extraordinary memoir, culled from thousands of pages of transcripts. The book is insightful, revealing, and surprising. Newman’s voice is powerful, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always meeting that high standard of searing honesty.

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man is the raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 years covers everything: his traumatic childhood, his career, his drinking, his thoughts on Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor, his greatest roles, acting, and his intimate life with Joanne Woodward.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: Knopf
• Print book length: 320 pages

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The Last Chairlift

October 18

John Irving

John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is called, finishes nowhere near the podium, but she manages to get pregnant. Back home, in New England, Little Ray becomes a ski instructor.

Her son, Adam, grows up in a family that defies conventions and evades questions concerning the eventful past. Years later, looking for answers, Adam will go to Aspen. In the Hotel Jerome, where he was conceived, Adam will meet some ghosts; in The Last Chairlift, they aren’t the first or the last ghosts he sees.

• Category: Political Fiction
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Print book length: 908 pages

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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

October 18

Max Hastings

In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.

Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis – the US President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.

Combining in-depth research with Hasting’s well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.

• Category: Warfare History
• Publisher: Harper
• Print book length: 576 pages

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The Passenger

October 25

Cormac McCarthy

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger.

1980, Pass Christian, Mississippi: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how?

A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit – by men with badges; by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima; and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.

The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

• Category: Psychological Literary Fiction
• Publisher: Knopf
• Print book length: 400 pages

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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty

October 25

Natalie Livingstone

From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first.

As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange.

Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
• Print book length: 707 pages

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No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel

October 25

Lee Child

After the success of an Amazon Prime Reacher TV series starring Alan Ritchson, many fans of Jack Reacher re-read earlier thrillers, but make sure to reach for the newest novel from Lee Child and Andrew Child: No Plan B.

In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away.

When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible.

According to Karin Slaughter, No Plan B is a perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before.

• Category: Thrillers
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Print book length: 361 pages

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The Rise of the Dragon: An Illustrated History of the Targaryen Dynasty

October 25

George R. R. Martin

This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.

The Rise of the Dragon chronicles the creation and rise of Targaryen power in Westeros, covering the history first told in George R. R. Martin’s epic Fire & Blood, from Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros through to the infamous Dance of the Dragons – the bloody civil war that nearly undid Targaryen rule for good.

Packed with all-new artwork, the Targaryens – and their dragons – come vividly to life in this deluxe reference book. Perfect for fans steeped in the lore of Westeros, as well as those who first meet the Targaryens in the HBO series.

• Category: Fantasy
• Publisher: Ten Speed Press
• Print book length: 352 pages

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The Philosophy of Modern Song

November 1

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone.

He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal.

These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition.

• Category: Music Essays
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Print book length: 352 pages

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The Stroke of Winter

November 1

Wendy Webb

In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old family home into a bed-and-breakfast during the icy dead of winter.

As the house’s restoration commences, a shuttered art studio is revealed. Inside are paintings Tess’s late grandfather, beloved and celebrated artist Sebastian Bell, hid away for generations. But these appear to be the works of a twisted mind, almost unrecognizable as paintings she and others familiar with his art would expect. 

The sinister canvases raise disturbing questions for Tess, sparking nightmares and igniting in her an obsession to unearth the truth around their origins.

Note: The ebook is available exclusively on Amazon.

• Category: Gothic Fiction
• Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• Print book length:  300 pages

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Love and War in the Jewish Quarter

November 8

Dora Levy Mossanen

A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter.

Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General’s defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor’s beloved daughter, but the entire community.

In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science, lust, and treachery.

• Category: Historical Fiction
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Print book length: 295 pages

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The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

November 15

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a “dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told.” 

And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron.

Now, adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of Years” in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee. 

• Category: Fantasy
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Print book length: 320 pages

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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

November 15

Michelle Obama

In an inspiring follow-up to her critically acclaimed, #1 bestselling memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world.

Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress.

How can we discover strength and community inside our differences? What tools do we use to address feelings of self-doubt or helplessness? What do we do when it all starts to feel like too much?

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives, identify their sources of gladness, and connect meaningfully in a turbulent world.

• Category: Biographies
• Publisher: Crown
• Print book length: 336 pages

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The newest 10.2-inch basic iPad sports the faster A13 Bionic processor and twice the storage, while keeping the prices of Wi-Fi variants at the same level – starting from $329.

The newest basic iPad model was announced during an Apple event on September 14, 2021, together with a range if iPhone 13 models and iPad mini 6.

Just like a year ago, the release of the new basic iPad model was a bit of a surprise. Everyone was expecting the announcement of the iPad mini 6 (what eventually happened).

The newest iPad is an upgrade from the 2020, with two major improvements: the new processor, which makes the device deliver up to 20% faster performance than the earlier model, and bigger storage options: 64 and 256 GB.

There is also a much better front camera (12MP Ultra Wide with 122° field of view and f/2.4 aperture), letting you make the most use of the so-called “Center Stage” technology.

Most of the features are the ones from the 2020 model. The display is the same and dimensions are the same (yes, your 2020 iPad case is compatible with the new model).

What changed, however, is the color of the front bezel. In the 2020 model, it was either white or black, depending on the main body color. The 2021 basic iPad comes in two colors – Silver and Space Gray – but the front in both variants is black.

Apple iPad 10.2 2021 – highlights

▸ The new entry-level iPad model released in 2021 is the 9th generation model overall.

▸ The basic 2021 iPad sports the same screen as the previous model – 10.2-inch LED-backlit Multi-Touch 2160 × 1620 px display with 264 ppi.

▸ Compared to the previous model, iPad 2021 comes with the bigger internal memory: 64 and 256 GB instead of 32 and 128 GB.

▸ Despite the same look, the newly released iPad is equipped with the new-generation A13 Bionic processor. As a result, the new iPad guarantees the 20% better performance than the 2020 model.

▸ Apple claims the new basic iPad is 3 times faster than the best-selling Chromebook and 6 times faster than the best-selling tablet powered by the Android operating system.

▸ Another improvement is the front-facing camera, which offers and ultra-wide view and the Center Stage technology.

▸ Center Stage is borrowed from iPad Pro 2021 models. The camera combined with machine learning uses the much larger field of view to keep you centered in the frame all the time.

▸ iPad 10.2 2021 has the same price as its predecessor, starting at $329, for the version with 64 GB of internal memory and Wi-Fi connection.

▸ The new entry-level iPad can be preordered on Apple website. It should also be added to the official Apple Reseller Store on Amazon in a matter of days or hours.

Basic iPad 2021 – questions and answers

What’s the main difference between the 2021 and 2020 iPad 10.2-inch?

It’s the performance. The new model is equipped with the new-generation A13 Bionic processor. As a result, the new iPad guarantees the 20% better performance than the 2020 model.

Does the 2021 iPad have more storage than the 2020 model?

Yes. it does. Instead of 32 and 128 GB, you can choose between 64 and 256 GB – twice the storage compared to the 2020 model.

Most importantly, the prices of the Wi-Fi variants are the same as for the earlier generation. it means that you can get twice the storage for the same amount of money: $329 for 64 GB and $479 for 256 GB.

Does the 2021 entry-level iPad has USB-C port?

Unfortunately, not. The device comes with an old Lightning connector. However, the 20W power adapter that comes in the iPad 2021 box is equipped with a USB-C port. You will be able to charge your iPad via Lightning to USB-C cable that’s also included in the box.

Which iPad 2021 storage variant is the best for me?

It depends on two factors: whether you use a cloud storage (such as iCloud or Google Drive) and whether you keep a lot of files on your iPad. If you want to download multiple Netflix movies to watch offline and if you have lots of own files (audiobooks, movies, photos), you’d better choose the bigger storage.

Is iPad better than other tablets on the market?

The first thing you have to embrace is the operating system – iOS. If that is not the main problem for you, and if you want to compare mainly the performance, Apple claims that:

• The 2021 basic iPad is 3 times faster than the best-selling Chromebook.
• The 2021 basic iPad is 6 times faster than the best-selling tablet powered by the Android operating system.

Can I use Apple Pencil with the new entry-level 10.2-inch iPad?

Yes, but keep in mind that only 1st-generation Apple Pencil is compatible with this model. You can check out the current price on Amazon – it’s usually up to 5% cheaper than in Apple stores.

Is iPad 10.2 2021 compatible with Magic Keyboard?

No, it’s not. If you think about using Magic Keyboard because of its touchpad, you can find a few good alternatives among third-party iPad keyboard cases with trackpad.

What generation is the basic iPad released in 2021?

Officially, it’s the 9th-generation iPad. However, if you want to search the web or online stores for news, tips, and accessories, using the phrase “iPad 10.2 2021” will bring more relevant results.

In the case of the basic iPad released in 2020, searching for “iPad 10.2” was more popular than “iPad 8,” and I expect users to continue defining the basic iPad with the size of its display.

Which entry-level iPad should I buy: the 2021 or older one?

If you need a tablet for simple tasks, such as browsing the web or writing emails, you can buy iPad 10.2 2020 (and save some money as the price will go down).

If you want to play games or intensively use your Apple Pencil, you should go for iPad 2021, as it’s better suited for complex tasks and tailored for the newest iPadOS operating system.

What is Center Stage in the basic iPad released in 2021

Center Stage, borrowed from 2021 iPads Pro, is a new feature that’s very helpful when you make many video calls.

The front ultra-wide camera combined with machine learning uses the much larger field of view to recognize and keep you centered in the frame all the time.

Can I use third-party stylus pens with iPad 2021?

Yes, you can use third-party styluses with your new iPad.

Most pens offer palm rejection and come with replaceable tips. They are usually a few times cheaper than Apple Pencil 2. Check out the most popular iPad compatible pens on Amazon.

What you have to keep in mind is that third-party pens can’t be recharged wirelessly by attaching them to the side of the iPad. You will need to use the cable.

Which model is better: basic iPad 2021 or iPad Air 4?

It all depend on what you are looking for. iPad Air 4 was released a year ago (in October 2020), and it combines the affordability of the basic iPad with advanced features of iPad Pro models.

Both models come with the same storage options – 64 and 256 GB. However, iPad Air 4 is equipped with a better processor – A14 Bionic chip with 64‑bit architecture – which should make it work much faster, especially if you want to take full advantage of advanced graphics or resource-heavy apps.

Will my current iPad case fit the new one?

Yes, it will. Dimensions, as well as location of ports and buttons, are the same. And there are plenty of awesome cases for basic iPad available, not only the boring folio stands or way too popular tri-fold covers.

Is basic iPad 2021 good for reading?

Yes, it’s a great reading device. Its display is large and crisp enough to read not only novels but also digital magazines, comic books, or textbooks. However, as the tablet is quite heavy, you may have a problem with one-handed use.

What is basic iPad released in 2021 best for?

Having in mind Apple Pencil support and all the benefits of iPadOS 15, the newest iPad is the best replacement for a good old notebook and good old newspaper.

When is the best time to upgrade to the new iPad?

Don’t wait for considerable price drops – you won’t see them this year. The best time to go for the new iPad is when your old tablet stops working correctly after upgrading to the newest system.

Does iPad 2021 have Face ID?

No, it doesn’t. To securely unlock the device, you can use Touch ID that’s a part of the Home button located under the screen.

Does the basic iPad released in 2021 have the 3.5 mm jack port?

Yes, the jack is here! There is no need to buy another cable or use Bluetooth earphones.

Is the 2021 iPad available in white color?

Unfortunately, not. Each of the color variants – Silver and Space Gray – comes with a black front.

Basic iPad 2021 10.2-inch – tech specs

Ready to go through the most important iPad 2021 specs?

The simple table below is intended to be easy to swallow, opposite to complicated and overwhelming tech specification lists you can find on leading tech blogs or Apple’s website.

Basic iPad 2021 – ports and buttons

Here is a simple visualization (courtesy of Apple) that shows the location of ports, buttons, and connectors. They are the same as in the previous generation. Combined with the same dimensions and shape, the 2021 basic iPad is compatible with case covers released for both 2019 and 2020 model.

Make sure to check out the latest overview of the best basic iPad case covers.

Entry-level iPad, 2021 release – product chart

If you have some more time to quickly go through what Apple wants to say about the most affordable tablet, here are the highlights from the official iPad 10.2 2021 product page.

Basic iPad 2021 10.2-inch, 9th generation

Silver / 64 GB

Power through any task
The A13 Bionic chip makes everything more responsive, from messaging to web browsing to using multiple apps at once. Up to 20 percent faster GPU gives you the graphics performance you need. Perfect for playing immersive games and more.

Your bright ideas on display
With incredible detail and vivid colors, the 10.2‑inch Retina display is perfect for watching movies, working on a project, or drawing your next masterpiece. True Tone adjusts the display to the color temperature of the room to make viewing comfortable in any light.

Shoots, edits, and shares
Center Stage makes video calls more engaging by automatically adjusting to keep you centered in the frame. And it lets you create fun videos for posting to popular social apps. In addition to Center Stage, the 12MP Ultra Wide front camera brings a huge boost in image quality for even better selfies and group shots.

Go limitless with wireless
Download files, stream movies, collaborate with colleagues, and upload content from just about anywhere. With Gigabit‑class LTE, you can connect even when you can’t access Wi‑Fi.

Write it down, type it up
Using Apple Pencil is as natural as putting pen to paper, but with capabilities that make handwriting as powerful as typed text. Take unforgettable notes, create a work of art, mark up screenshots, and much more.

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These third-party cases and sleeves will fit iPad 10.2 released in 2021, as well as two earlier generations. Why get Smart Cover if you have hundreds of amazing alternatives?

The biggest problem with original iPad covers is not their high price. It’s their lack of creativity. The Smart Cover hasn’t changed since the 2nd-generation iPad. Its tri-fold design is 100% perfect… and 1,000% dull.

It’s true that the range of Apple Smart Covers for iPad 10.2 model is wider than for any other model, but millions of iPad lovers expect something way more creative.

Only third-party producers can give you that. Especially now, when the iPad 10.2 model released in 2021 has exactly the same dimensions as the ones from 2020 and 2019. It means that all iPad 2020 cases will perfectly fit the newest iPad 10.2 2021. We are now talking not about hundreds but thousands of compatible case covers.

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And there is always an unbeatable factor: affordable price. That’s why more and more users tend to explore online stores such as Amazon or Etsy to find iPad cover that will fully reflect their personality, meet their emerging needs, and save some money for other iPad accessories.

Below, you will find a list of iPad 10.2 case covers from most trusted producers, together with our recommendation highlights.

iPad 10.2 case covers and sleeves – 2021-22 highlights

In the following roundup, you will see the best examples of cases and sleeves that are compatible with iPad 10.2 from 2021, 2020, as well as 2019. We’ve explored top online destinations to put together only the best cases from trusted sellers.

• Multi-purpose protector magnetic case from Zugu
• Innovative soft-edge bumper case
• Keyboard cases that feature iPad-compatible trackpad
• Designer tri-fold case available in almost over 260 variants
• Heavy-duty cases for adults and kids
• Several examples of floral designs
• Multifunctional, waterproof sleeves with US accessories
• Eco-friendly folio stand case made of cork wood
• Rugged cases with kickstand and screen protector
• Clear case compatible with both Smart Cover and Smart Keyboard
• 360-degree rotatable stand case with stylus holder

The best iPad 10.2 case covers in 2021-22 season

1. Smart tri-fold cover with a flexible back

Here is one of the nicest third-party alternatives to the Apple Smart Cover.

Made by DTTO, the cover is uber-lightweight and, just like the original accessory, can be turned into either horizontal or vertical stand. The horizontal position is brilliant for typing or drawing, especially that you can use Apple Pencil with the newest 10.2-inch iPad 10.2.

Our favorite feature is a backshell that’s made of flexible TPU. Thanks to that the cover is easy to install or uninstall. Plus, the shell helps release the heat and is fingerprint-proof.

The soft-shell Smart Cover alternative is available in as many as thirteen colors, including Mint Green (shown above), Silver and Wine Red.

Our score: 7.5/10

⇢ Amazon – $10.99

2. Zugu iPad 10.2 military-drop case with Apple Pencil holder

Our pick: The best tough case for Apple iPad 10.2

If you are ready to invest in a case that combines extra protection with several other features, take a look at the case from Zugu.

Besides being tested against 5-feet drops (Military Drop Test Standard MIL STD 810G 516.6), the case sports an innovative stand solution.

The magnetic kickstand can be positioned in as many as eight secure angles, so that you can use your iPad in any possible situation. The magnets are strong enough to hold the iPad 10.2 on the fridge and use it as a kitchen TV.

Thanks to materials that are similar to what Mercedes-Benz is using in their cars, the Zugu case is extremely thin and lightweight – and it also looks like being taken directly from a dashboard of a luxury car.

We just make a case customers want, a case with a super functional stand, a case that is thin but still protective enough to withstand 5ft drops onto cement & a case that looks as good as it functions.

– Tim Angel, Zugu founder

Zugu case for iPad 10.2 sports Apple Pencil holder. You can choose from five colors, including Navy and Executive Brown, shown above!

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $49.99

3. Innovative soft-edge bumper case with transparent back

Our pick: A new kind of lightweight edge protection

When it comes to innovation, iPad users are first to enjoy new case designs.

Here is an example from MoKo: a new kind of lightweight iPad 10.2 case that combines crystal clear transparent back (which is quite common already) with a bumper frame made of soft rubberized premium-quality TPU material.

The frame is highly innovative. It features raised corners for enhanced drop protection. Striped surface on the sides helps prevent the iPad from slipping.

The air pockets along the inner bumper provides incredible impact resistance by dispersing shock from drops, falls or jolts.

– Producer’s description

Just like all other cases in this overview, it fits iPad 10.2 models released in 2021 and 2020.

⇢ Amazon – $6.99

4. Polka dot iPad 10.2 cover with internal Apple Pencil holder

Are you looking for a gorgeously designed iPad case that features a built-in Apple Pencil holder?

Take a look at the folio iPad 10.2 case cover offered on Etsy by Hello Journal Shop. You can choose from five bright designs. Above, you see the Pattern 4 – cute polka dots.

Choose iPad 10.2 from the drop-down list, select the pattern you like. Done!

⇢ Etsy – $39.99

5. Cute iPad 10.2 folio cover with free stylus

Here is a series of iPad 10.2 covers that are easily the cutest ones you can get online.

Offered by A-Beauty on Amazon, these folio covers depict illustrations of insanely cute pets and other animals, like the dog with glasses shown above.

The cover supports sleep/wake function, and comes with built-in internal card pockets. The producer ships the cover together with a free tablet stylus in a random color.

⇢ Amazon – $13.99

6. Kid-friendly case with hollowed-out design

If a solid bumper case made of premium silicone is all you need to make you or your kids happy when using the 10.2-inch iPad, you should check out an interesting design from Dadanism.

The case is lightweight as it’s made of a one-piece of shock-absorbing silicone.

A unique hollowed-out construction serves two purposes. First, it provides a better grip, so that the iPad can be held with one tiny hand. Secondly, raised edges give extra protection against drops and bumps.

You can choose from four color variants, both for boys and girls. We love the Orange variant in this season.

⇢ Amazon – 9.99

7. Durable kid-proof case with screen protector

Our pick: Best iPad 10.2 kids case on Amazon

Take a look at another kid-proof iPad 10.2 case that fits both 2021 and 2020 models. It’s a perfect combination of reasonable price and good quality.

First, it is available in dual-color version. The back is made from a protective material in one color; the cover frame comes in a different color. You can choose from a few color pairs: Purple+Rose or Black+Turquoise.

Another features that’s worth highlighting is a built-in screen protector that comes together with a front case. The protector is crystal clear and guarantees full touchscreen functionality.

⇢ Amazon – $9.99

8. Floral iPad 10.2 cover with transparent back

The tri-fold case from Dadanism combines the beauty of a bright floral design with a lightweight back shell that’s made of translucent plastic that let you enjoy the beauty of the iPad itself – any time you want.

This cover is a perfect gift for girls and anyone who is looking for ways to express the joy of life and creativity.

⇢ Amazon – $11.99

9. Waterproof iPad 10.2 sleeve with USB charging port

Our pick: The best sleeve bag for iPad 10.2

There are many great multifunctional sleeves that are tailored to fit 10-inch tablets, but the one that has been released by Domiso comes with two very useful features.

First, it sports an external USB port. Thanks to that, you can put your power bank inside the large external pocket, and connect your iPhone or iPad via the port.

Secondly, the sleeve comes with a cable hole you can use to put another USB cable or a headphone jack.

The sleeve offers 5-layer protection against water, shock, dust, and scratches. Moreover, you can use the sleeve as a backpack, thanks to shoulder strap.

Domiso sleeve is available in five colors, including Red and Floral Blue. The variant for 10.1-10.5 tablets will fit perfectly your new iPad 10.2, no matter whether it’s a 2021 or 2020 release.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $18.99

10. Heavy-duty rugged case with built-in screen protector and kickstand

Offered by Supcase, this case from Unicorn Beetle Pro series has everything you need to make your iPad 10.2 withstand a heavy use no matter where you are. It’s also a great option if you want to share the iPad with your children.

The case offers dual-layer protection against drops and bumps. Most importantly, the case comes with an integrated screen protector, so you have all-around protection without spending extra money. It will guard iPad’s Retina display against scratches and dust.

Fortified bumpers are reinforced with a polycarbonate outer shell, while an inner TPU lining ensures the safety of your iPad when accidentally dropped.

– Producer’s description

You can choose from eight color combinations, designed for both children and adults.

Our score: 7.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $29.99

11. Shockproof case with detachable tri-fold cover

Most shockproof cases come either with or without the front cover. What would you say about the case that leaves that decision to you?

From Seymac comes a shockproof cover design that features a tri-fold front that you can easily detach and attach. The front can be folded to form a vertical or horizontal stand and sports a built-in Apple Pencil holder.

The case is formed from four layers in total, with soft outer shell, hard inner layer, front frame and tri-fold cover.

You can choose from five color variants. including Black/Rose.

⇢ Amazon – $21.99

12. Fashionable rugged case cover with Apple Pencil holder

Our pick: The best combination of fashionable look and protective features

Who said extra protective covers have to have military ugly look? There are more and more designs on Amazon that combine rugged dual-layer construction with fashionable look.

Here is an example – a Cosmo case from i-Blason. It looks like being taken straight from a high-street boutique but offers extra protection typical for rugged cases, has a built-in Apple Pencil holder (on the left side of the screen), and comes with a free screen protector.

Protective front cover with built-in screen protector enhances touch sensitivity and supports quick auto wake/sleep

– Producer’s description

You can choose from four fashionable variants: Ameth, Blue, Marble, and Prasio. There is also an all-black version.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $26.99

13. Three-layer 360-degree defender case with screen protector

If you are looking for a refreshingly different case design that would give your new iPad 10.2 an enhanced protection, you should take a closer look at the one offered by Poetic.

The Explorer Series offers a three-layer protection: premium honey-comb textured cover, reinforced TPU edge frame with impact-resistant bumper, and front case with built-in screen protector.

The case offers also an internal Apple Pencil holder, which doubles as a cap holder while your pen is being charged.

What’s more, the case features “grippy inner material that can offer infinite adjustable viewing angles.” It means you don’t need to fix the stand in one or two positions.

⇢ Amazon – $26.99

14. Clear iPad 10.2 case compatible with Smart Cover and Keyboard

Here is the most convenient option for anyone who intends to buy the original Apple Smart Cover but cares about the back of the iPad as well.

The clear back shell offered by TiMOVO is tailored for the newest 9th-generation iPad released in 2021 as well as 2020 and 2019 models. The case is super slim, adds minimal bulk, and lets you show off the natural beauty of your iPad.

Most importantly, the case is compatible with the Smart Cover. Even more – it’s compatible with Apple Smart Keyboard! It means that you can guarantee 360-degree protection of the iPad by adding just this slim and affordable case.

Crystal clear cover features precise cutouts which look fashionable while allowing you to see your iPad’s attractive design. Super thin and water-resistant, it not only looks great, but it’s also easy to release.

– Producer’s description

TiMOVO offers lifetime warranty for this case. You can choose from four variants: Clean Clear, Navy Blue, Clear Black, Midnight Green.

Our score: 6.5/10

⇢ Amazon – $11.99

15. Apple iPad 10.2 keyboard case with touchpad

Our pick: Best touchpad enabled keyboard for iPad 10.2

A dedicated operating system for iPad – iPadOS – lets users control a mouse cursor with external sources, such as a touchpad on a wireless keyboard or keyboard case.

Getting a keyboard with a touchpad is a great way to avoid moving your hand between the keyboard and display every time you want to change the position of the cursor.

One of the first such keyboards that are compatible with iPad 10.2 is the one offered by Phixnozar.

This premium keyboard is compatible with iPad 10.2 models from 2021, 2020 and 2019. It features all-round protection, extremely long battery life, and built-in Apple Pencil holder.

The case is available in Black or Rose Gold color.

⇢ Amazon – $39.99

16. Logitech Combo touch keyboard with trackpad

Our pick: Works with Smart Connector

If you are ready to spend more money for an Apple-approved iPadOS compatible keyboard case with a trackpad, take a look at Logitech’s Combo Touch.

The case features an adjustable kickstand (40-degree tilt) so that you can position the iPad’s display at the right angle. The keys give familiar soft laptop-like experience and are well spaced for maximum typing precision.

Most importantly, the keyboard features a trackpad that fully supports all iPadOS multi-gesture possibilities. What’s more, four use modes will help you comfortably work with the iPad on any task you imagine.

Last but not least, Logitech Combo Touch is compatible with Smart Connector, so there is no need to recharge it.

⇢ Amazon – $129.99

17. Water repellent sleeve with black marble design

If all you need now is an extra level of protection when you carry your iPad 10.2 (with or without the case), take a look at the sleeve that’s worth adding to your shortlist.

Offered by Mosiso, it features one main compartment for the iPad, and an extra storage pocket for your iPhone, cables, earphones, or documents.

The sleeve is made of lightweight polyester material that’s water repellent. There is a layer of protective foam padding, while the inside is lined with smooth and fluffy fleece fabric.

⇢ Amazon – $12.99

18. 360-degree rotating stand case with pen holder

Our pick: Best rotating stand for iPad 10.2

The classic rotating stand case that allows you to use the iPad in either landscape or portrait mode is still one of the most sought-after designs.

Finite offers the case in as many as 24 colors and patters, so you can be sure you will find the one that fits your expectations.

The case offers an Apple Pencil holder that’s hidden inside, on the left side of the iPad (it includes a hole for a cap, as well). Elastic band holds the iPad securely in place. And, yes, there is a large cutout for the logo!

360 degree rotating structure in the case for flexible landscape and portrait viewing. Automatically wakes or puts your device to sleep.

– Producer’s description

Our score: 7.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $15.99

19. Genuine leather folio cover for iPad 10.2

If you are looking for a classic feel of a genuine leather, you should take a look at the case from Gexmil.

The case is made of top layer genuine cowhide leather. “These hides are selected for quality, strength, character and grain. They look stylish and feel nature and soft.”

A hidden holder will securely accommodate your Apple Pencil (or other tablet stylus). The back shell is made of soft but durable plastic shell.

The company offers lifetime replacements warranty with all their cases.

⇢ Amazon – $39.99

20. Natural cork wood folio cover

Our pick: Best eco-friendly case for iPad 10.2

Are you looking for a cork folio case for your 10.2-inch iPad? Made of natural cork by Reveal, this slim and form fitting case is eco-friendly and provides an easy grip. It’s also sleek and has a high-end look.

What’s most important, as this case is made of naturally-occurring cork, each individual item is truly unique!

All products offered by Reveal are made with made with cork and recycled fabrics. Cork is harvested without any damage to the tree, so each tree can continually supply cork season after season.

We also plant a tree for every product sold, so you can feel good about your contribution to the environment!

– Producer’s description

⇢ Amazon – $49.99

21. Personalized boutique-style designer case

Our pick: The best personalized case covers for iPad 10.2

Here is another great source of designer iPad 10.2 case covers on Etsy.

Kyiv-based New Art Studio offers amazing tri-fold covers that are designed especially for girls. You can find here floral patterns, street art collages, designs inspired by cartoons, nature background, and cute minimalist drawings.

As many as 260 iPad cases are available to order (please select “iPad 10.2” from a drop-down list).

Some designs can be personalized by adding a name, initials, or other short text!

⇢ Etsy – from $29.99

22. Premium eco leather folio case with flexible back

Our pick: Combination of classic look and innovative features

Take a look at a refreshing idea in this overview – a folio iPad 10.2 case made of eco-friendly material that perfectly resembles genuine leather.

It’s a typical folio case – fold it back to form a three-angle stand. Plus, there is also an option to set up a horizontal stand that’s perfect for writing and sketching.

The case supports auto sleep/wake feature. The magnets are stronger than in most other cases, enabling quicker wake up. The back shell is made of flexible material, making it easy to install and remove it any time you want.

Best of all, the case from Antbox has a built-in Apple Pencil holder that’s hidden on the left side of the display.

⇢ Amazon – $29.99

23. iPad Smart Cover alternative with a floral design

Our pick: Affordable Smart Cover alternative for iPad 10.2

Getting a clear case for your iPad with Smart Cover is a good idea, but the original Apple case is expensive – it costs $49.

What if you could get both the tri-fold cover and slim back shell? Meet the new design from Fintie, our favorite Amazon vendor offering iPad cases and accessories.

The front part works the same as Smart Cover. Its foldable design can turn the iPad into a stand in two positions, either vertical or horizontal. The back side is made of extremely thin and durable translucent frosted plastic enabling you to see the beauty of the iPad all the time.

The best part is that the Fintie case is available in twelve colors and patterns that will fit almost any need.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $11.99

24. Flexible Smart Keyboard compatible iPad 10.2 back shell

Here is another Smart Keyboard compatible iPad 10.2 case that fits the newest 2021 model as well as the ones released in 2020 and 2019.

This flexible design from ESR has a large cutout on the side that leaves enough space for the Smart Connector to seamlessly attach to the Apple’s Keyboard while keeping 100% of its functionality.

One more benefit of the case is that it’s made of soft and flexible rubber. Thanks to that, you can attach and detach it easily whenever you need.

Perfect Fit: designed to leave space around the Smart Connector to stay compatible with your Smart Keyboard

– Producer’s description

Therefore, this case is a perfect solution for anyone who wants to invest in original Apple accessories, but also cares about giving the iPad a complete all-round protection against scratches and bumps.

Our score: 8.0/10

⇢ Amazon – $9.99

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Children’s books are all about drawing attention – and this is precisely why an iPad is the perfect medium to read them on.

Unlike traditional books, it offers way more than just colorful illustrations – it gives you the possibility to listen to a narrator read it out loud, to interact with animated characters, to look up difficult new words, and to test your knowledge in fun mini-games.

And the best part? There are plenty of free iPad books available as well.

In this list, we decided to include a variety of different apps for kids of all ages – classic fairytale collections (think: the Grimm Brothers), Dr. Seuss stories, but also some incredibly inventive choose-your-own adventure books.

Our personal favorite is Wonderscope – an app that lets your little one interact with AR characters to come up with a highly personalized, engaging story.

Read on to find out which apps made the cut.

If you to take reading experience on your iPad and iPhone to a whole new level, make sure to check out the best book apps, as well as top audiobook player apps.

The Best iPad book apps for kids

1. The Cat in the Hat

Delightfully interactive, with stunning animations and endless learning activities, “The Cat in the Hat” is not just a fun storybook app, but an educational one as well. Designed specifically for beginning readers, it has plenty of hidden features guaranteed to surprise your little one all the way through – animations, interactions, rhyming and spelling exercises, individual word pronunciation, trivia games, and many, many more.

“The Cat in the Hat” can be viewed in three different ways: “Read it Myself”, in which you can read the book in its traditional form; “Read to Me”, in which you can listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read; and “Auto Play”, which plays just like a movie – with automatic reading and turning pages.

And here comes the best part – once your kids have found all the hidden easter eggs in “The Cat in the Hat”, they can keep on reading “The Lorax”, “Green Eggs and Ham”, “Horton Hears a Who!” and many other Dr. Seuss classics, which can be purchased on Oceanhouse Media’s App Store page separately or in bundles.

Benefits: “The Cat in the Hat” is packed with easter eggs, making it an incredibly engaging and interactive reading experience.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: $0.99

2. Fairy Tales Bedtime Stories

Best for toddlers and pre-schoolers, “Fairy Tales – Bedtime Stories” is a marvelous collection of story books to read your kids to bed with. It offers plenty of all-time classics – “Puss in Boots”, “The Beauty and the Beast”, “Cinderella”, and many, many more – but also some less-known, but still incredibly engaging, stories, such as “The Enormous Turnip” or “Aesop’s Fables”.

What’s more, you can download every book to your device and read it anytime, anywhere, in offline mode – a perfect solution for long car rides, doctor’s appointments, and restaurants.

Every bedtime story contains exciting pop-up games – labyrinths, cards matching games, jigsaw puzzles, hidden easter eggs – that make reading even more entertaining and educative. You can also collect daily bonuses to unlock more interactive books for free.

Benefits: “Fairy Tales Bedtime Stories” is the perfect choice if you’re looking for an app with a vast selection of classic bedtime stories, all in one place.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: Free to download with one free book as a gift (“Puss in Boots”). Other books need to be purchased within the app (but worry not – it’s perfectly safe and kid-friendly, so your child will not make any unintentional in-app purchases without your knowledge).

3. Little Stories – Bedtime Books

“Little Stories” is a brilliant collection of fairy tales in which your kid plays the main role. All you have to do is enter their name and gender and you can enjoy reading personalized fairy tales with your son or daughter cast as the hero. What’s even more is that it includes a recording button – making it possible for the parents to become the narrators of the story and the children to play it back anytime.

The app offers 21 original fairy tales (and the collection is growing!), each accompanied by enchanting music and beautiful illustrations, with some extremely valuable life lessons.

Benefits: Incredibly personalized in many different ways, “Little Stories” is one of the best bedtime apps there is.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: Free to download with 3 free books as a gift (“A Monkey Manners Tale”, “The Brave Eaglet”, “The Magic Christmas Tree”). Other books need to be purchased within the app.

4. Bedtime Stories – Read & Tell

This app is a bit different because it engages the young and the old to spend some family time together – and it bursts with opportunities for both the children and the parents to learn new things.

While kids can delve into the exciting library of Storyworlds, parents can practice their storytelling skills for free with exciting exercises and courses about story building and different storytelling techniques. The interactive Storybuilder helps generate millions of exciting storylines, and lets your family become heroes of the narrative.

Intuitively designed, the app includes series of reads for different age groups, of different formats and different lengths, providing a plethora of options depending on how much time and energy the readers have at any particular time.

New Storyworlds are added every two weeks – making it impossible to run out of content to read.

Benefits: “Bedtime Stories – Read & Tell” will awake the inner storyteller in parents and kids alike.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: $2.99

5. The Little Red Riding Hood

Grimm Brothers’ iconic fairy tale comes to life in this uniquely interactive reading experience for children from 3 to 8 years old.

Beautifully illustrated and animated in 3D, “The Little Red Riding Hood” is packed with engaging games and activities – the kids can now become part of the plot, by cooking a cake for granny, helping the woodcutter pass through a labyrinth, and teaching the wolf a lesson.

Benefits: This free app is the perfect way to get you started with reading to your kids on an iPad.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: Free

6. Bubuk – Your Personalized Book

This watercolor-illustrated book lets you customize everything: you can choose the name of the protagonist (and of other characters in the story as well!), customize their appearance, choose their fates, and create books that are a new magical adventure every time.

“Bubuk” is available in 5 different languages – English, Italian, French, Spanish, and German. But what makes the app stand out is the fact that if you create a story you really like, you can order the Bubuk and have a paper copy ($30) delivered directly at your doorstep with free shipping all over the world.

Benefits: You can purchase a paper copy of your custom book.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: Free (optional $30 to buy physical copy of book).

7. Nighty Night Forest

“Night Night Forest” is the perfect go-to-bed ritual for the little ones (especially for kids from 2 to 5 years old), packed with cute animals, sweet lullaby music, and great narration.

With illustrations by award-winning artist Jeremy Kool, the app combines 3D modeling and lighting with 2D textures, making it an incredible visual experience as well.

Set in a magical forest, the story features seven adorable animal protagonists – deer, skunk, woodpecker, chipmunk, mole, fox, and a bear – which the readers can bring to bed by switching off the lights.

The app offers autoplay-mode – perfect to slowly lull your child to sleep. It is also available in as many as 13 different languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Benefits: Created by parents for parents, “Nighty Night Forest” is the perfect way to slowly lull your child to sleep.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone
Price: $3.99

8. KidBook

“KidBook” offers plenty of stories for children from 2 to 10 years old all on one bookshelf – with the library constantly replenished with exciting new books and content.

Every story is completely different, beautifully illustrated by various professional graphic designers, voiced by actors, and packed with mini-games.

Benefits: “Kid Book” offers the most variety out of all bedtime apps – every story is illustrated and written by someone else.
Compatibility: iPad only
Price: Free to download, with 7-day free access to the entire library. Afterwards, you can choose either a monthly ($2) or weekly ($1) subscription.

9. Hippo Magic

Your kid’s beloved fairytale characters can now come to life with “Hippo Magic” – an app that reimagines traditional print books into interactive augmented reality experiences.

All you have to do is point your device at the pages of any Little Hippo Book marked with the Little Hippo logo at the bottom – and see the 4D Magic come to life.

Benefits: This app will leave the kids amazed and wishing every book had an AR version.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone (requires iOS 11.0 or later)
Price: The app is free to use with a paper copy of a Hippo Magic book.

10. Wonderscope

Similarly to “Hippo Magic”, “Wonderscope” is all about transforming ordinary spaces into extraordinary stories through augmented reality. Read your lines aloud to engage with and talk to characters, and help them solve problems along the way.

The Wonderscope library is constantly growing with a variety of eight incredibly engaging stories: “Sinclair Snake: Museum Mischief” transforms your little one into a junior detective and helps learn about dinosaurs, Egypt, medieval times, and gems; “A Brief History of Amazing Stunts by Astounding People”, a BAFTA Award-winning non-fiction series, invites children to take party in three of history’s most impossible stunts; “Little Red the Inventor” takes a different, EQ focused spin on the classic Grimm Brothers tale.

Benefits: You haven’t seen anything like this before – and this might be the future of storytelling.
Compatibility: iPad (2017 and Pro), iPhone 6S and newer (requires iOS 11.0 or later)
Price: The app itself free to download, stories can be unlocked for around $5 each.

11. Rivet: Better Reading Practice

With a whopping 3,500+ free books across eight different reading levels (and available in English, Spanish, German and Polish), Rivet is an absolute must-have for both beginning and advanced young readers.

The users can choose from a wide variety of categories – adventure, animals, arts and crafts, learning, sports, and many, many more – but also access fun books from some of the most popular YouTube creators, such as Troom Troom or Oddbods.

The intuitive, kid-friendly interface makes it even easier for the little ones to fall in love with reading – readers can tap on tricky words for help, track their reading practice, receive personalized recommendations, set daily reading goals, and earn badges and rewards by achieving milestones.

Benefits: Rivet has one of the biggest available high-quality story collections – and it’s 100% free.
Compatibility: iPad, iPhone (requires iOS 11.0 or later)
Price: Free.

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