Choice is a good thing even when they overlap. Case in point is Apple’s iPhone User Guide For iOS 6, which is available via the company’s under-appreciated iBooks Store and direct download — it’s the same .pdf either way, but you can both coming and going.

Looking for a full exposition on the 200-plus features baked into iOS 6? Then you need the 155-page book, chock full o’ screen grabs and illustrations that illuminates everything that’s new and old in Apple’s latest mobile operating system rewrite.

Yesterday, Fairer Platform published a direct download link for the iPhone User Guide for iOS 6 and clicking that will put a .pdf in your Downloads folder. Yes, you can drag that into iTunes and sync it to your iThings, but why bother?

There is no good reason to bother because Apple has also released the iPhone User Guide For iOS 6 on iBooks (free). It’s the very same pdf and you can get in on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad without the extraneous monkeying around.

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