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Grab a coffee, sink into a comfy chair and start browsing the most popular books of the season 鈥� all from your phone or tablet.

Thanks to a new partnership between Apple and Flipboard, the mobile app that lets users customize and access news in one place, Apple鈥檚 iBookstore is now available for browsing on your iOS device.

The app鈥檚 new Books category features 25 genres pulled from Apple鈥檚 iBookstore, including Bestsellers, Fiction Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Humor, Comics & Graphic Novels, and Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

鈥淩eflecting as many genres as there are sections, it鈥檚 like browsing in a bookstore, right from your Flipboard,鈥� Flipboard said in its launch .

Here鈥檚 how it works: the new Books category is available via Flipboard on all iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod) in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Brazil.

All you need to do to activate the free update is swipe down on the red ribbon on the top right-hand corner and tap the Books section. From there, you can drill down to any one of the 25 sections. Want to see what books are popular in other countries? 鈥淭ap the red ribbon and scroll down to the country selector in 鈥楾his Week鈥� to explore books popular in any of these countries,鈥� Flipboard said in its announcement.

As you browse through the sections, you鈥檒l see large graphics of each of the book covers. Tap a cover to unlock information about the book, including author, publisher, summary, and highlights from critics. To purchase, just click to download from the iBookstore; you鈥檒l be taken to iBooks for the actual reading with all its features, including 鈥渇ully illustrated books like children鈥檚 picture books, art books, photo books, and cookbooks,鈥� says Flipboard.

We鈥檙e excited about this new collaboration and curious to hear what users鈥� experiences have been with Flipboard iBooks. If you鈥檝e used it, let us know what you think.

Husna Haq is a Monitor correspondent.