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How to: Buy and read books in Microsoft’s browser
The Edge easy e-reading experience
Once you’ve purchased an ebook, feel free to
open it immediately. Otherwise, you’ll be off on a
hunt – where is my ebook library, again? Instead of
tucking shortcuts to your library all over the place,
you’ll need to return to the Store’s main ‘Books’
home page, and then click the My books link.
Doing so will launch Edge. Unfortunately,
Edge opened my ‘Reading List’ – a collection
of web pages I stored to read later – and not
my collection of ebooks. Even in Edge, ‘Books’
isn’t found intuitively; you’ll need to navigate
to the Hub – the icon to the right of the ‘star’
in the URL bar – then navigate to the icon that
looks like a collection of books leaning against
one another. Microsoft might not force you to
open a separate app to read an ebook, but that
doesn’t mean it’s any easier a process.
The Microsoft Edge Hub,
in which your ebooks
are stored within the
Books section
Within the Books sidebar, you’ll see your collection of books, with
a progress bar showing how much you’ve read. At the bottom of
the sidebar is a link back to the Store.
Once an ebook is opened in Edge, navigating its contents is
simple enough. Edge will open the book to the title page, possibly
(depending upon how the book itself is organised) with a list
of hyperlinked chapters. At the bottom of the screen you’ll see
the title of the book, the chapter (if any) and your progress as a
percentage of the book.
Lush, lavish cookbooks
lose a little something in
the EPUB format, though
traditional text-heavy
books look just fine
100 www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to June 2017