Black background for iBooks

Recently, I attended a conference and sat next to someone who was using iBook on his iPad and the book had a black background. He explained that he could choose from white, sepia, and black for page backgrounds. I got my own iPad today and downloaded iBooks, but can only see white and sepia backgrounds. Can someone explain to me how to get the black background?
Thanks for any help

Under Settings > General > Accessibility there is an option for White on black. For anyone one else looking. The sepia option is available under fonts top right of the book while reading it in iBooks.
Best.

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