Can i use iBooks on my MBP

hi lads and/or lasses, i have got my missus an iPad2 and got her fixed up with iBooks very easily, i then think i will use it on my MBP as well, but it seems that iBooks is for Mobile Applications ONLY, Please, have i got that right ?.
I can view the iBooks file in iTunes, i can also select it and View in Finder, which puts me looking at a folder called "mobile applications" !, so where in the Folder tree on my Hard Drive is that folder ?.
i am a little bit confused, maybe the applications are different for iPad and MBP but maybe the Books i can download are the same ?, that is of course if i can ever get iBooks on my Lap Top ?.
Or what about Kindle ?, does this use the same "books" as iBooks ?.
tim

Timmy, iBooks works on the iOS, and the Mac works on OS X; they are not the same. That's the bad news, meaning that you can't use iBooks on your Mac.
The good news is that there are readers available for the Mac that will allow you to read epub (the format used in iBooks) books on your Mac. Kindle has its own format, too, which is not interchangeable with iBooks. HTH.

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