Is there a way to show iBooks pages on my iPad on an HDTV screen? If so, what would I need to do it?
You can display the pages of an iBook currently on the iPad’s screen on the television with the built-in “video-mirroring” technology in the iPad 2 and current Retina display models. In addition to books, you can mirror apps, games, movies or whatever else your iPad is showing at the moment.
Depending on your setup, you can mirror the iPad’s screen with an HDMI cable and an adapter (like Apple’s Digital AV Adapter) that connects the tablet to the TV. In addition to a model that fits the older 30-pin Dock Connector ports on older iPads, Apple’s digital adapter is also available in a version that fits the Lightning port connector on the new iPad Mini and fourth-generation iPad model.
If you prefer to do it without wires instead, you can stream the mirrored image over a wireless network and through an Apple TV (second-generation or later) connected to the television. This approach requires buying one of Apple’s $99 set-top boxes and having a home network that uses the 802.11a, 802.11g or 802.11n standard if you do not have these in place already.
If you opt to connect the iPad to the TV with the HDMI cable and adapter, use the television remote control to switch the TV to display the input from the iPad’s screen. Once you open an iBook on the iPad, the image should be mirrored on the TV.
If you choose the Apple TV and wireless method, switch the TV’s input display to the Apple TV. Open the iBook you want to show. Double-click the iPad’s home button to show the row of recently used apps and swipe from left to right until you see the AirPlay icon. Tap it to open the menu, where you can select the Apple TV as the display screen and tap the Video Mirroring button to On. Apple has illustrated instructions for video-mirroring the iPad screen with AirPlay here.