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9 articles tagged “guide”.

Guides 5 min read

How to Turn Your iPhone Duo Into a Turntable

Stand iPhone Duo part open and BeeTunes lays a turntable on the lower half under a raised dust cover — or a CD player or cassette deck with the track list laid out below. Here's what each way of holding the Duo does.

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Apple Books on Apple Watch: Audiobooks Yes, Ebooks No

The Apple Watch can play your Apple Books audiobooks, but it cannot show the text of an Apple Books ebook — there is no reading view, and purchases are DRM-protected. Here's exactly what works, what doesn't, and how to read on the watch anyway.

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How to Put an EPUB on Your Apple Watch (and Read It Offline)

You can read an EPUB on an Apple Watch in three steps: import the file on your iPhone, send it to the watch, and read with the Digital Crown. Here's the full walkthrough, what to do when the book doesn't arrive, and why a DRM-protected EPUB won't work.

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Free Classic Books You Can Read on an Apple Watch

BeeReader has a built-in shelf of public-domain classics from Standard Ebooks — Conan Doyle, Austen, Wells, Stevenson, Marcus Aurelius and more — that download straight to your Apple Watch with no file to find. Here are the ones that read best on a wrist, and why the full 1,500-book catalogue is US-only.

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The Best Apple Watch Reading Apps in 2026

Nine apps put books and documents on your wrist, and they do three genuinely different jobs. A comparison with verified prices, ratings and update dates — including where our own app loses.

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Behind the Build 7 min read

Why a PDF Can't Just Be Shrunk Down to an Apple Watch

Fitting an A4 page on a watch means shrinking 11pt type to 1.7pt, and zooming back in leaves you reading a fortieth of the page through a keyhole. The arithmetic rules out showing the page — so the words have to leave it. What that costs, and what it takes.

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How to Open a PDF on Your Apple Watch

watchOS has no built-in PDF support, but there are two very different ways to get one onto your wrist — viewing the page, or reading the text. Here's which you want, which apps do each, and why PDFs break in ways EPUBs don't.

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