Kibano AS KAS-R1 User Manual
Kibano AS
R1 digireader
R1
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Revision History
Version Author Date Notes
0.1 EW 2011-09-30 Initial version
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Technical Specification ................................................................................................................. 6
1.2 Control Placement ......................................................................................................................... 7
2 About R1 DIGIREADER ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Design concept ................................................................ .............................................................. 9
2.2 Controls ......................................................................................................................................... 9
2.2.1 Physical Buttons ..................................................................................................................... 9
2.2.2 Touch Gesture ........................................................................................................................ 9
2.3 Input Method / On-screen Keyboard .......................................................................................... 10
2.3.1 On-screen Keyboard for English Input Method ................................................................... 11
2.3.2 Google Pinyin Input Method ................................................................................................ 12
2.4 Cards ..................................... ..................................................... ................................................. 13
2.4.1 SD Card ............................................. ................................................................................... 13
2.4.2 Menca Card .......................................................................................................................... 14
2.4.3 Access cards ......................................................................................................................... 14
3 Power ON/OFF .................................................................................................................... ............... 16
3.1 Steps to power on ........................................................................................................................ 16
3.2 Steps to power off ................................................................................................................ ....... 16
4 Interface ......................... ...................................... .................................. .......................... ................... 18
4.1 Home Screen .................................................................................. ............................................. 18
4.2 Status Bar .................................................................................................. .................................. 18
4.2.1 Battery status ........................................................................................................................ 18
4.2.2 Wireless network status ........................................................................................................ 19
4.2.3 Bluetooth status ................................................................................................................ .... 19
4.2.4 SD card status .................................................................. ..................................................... 19
4.3 Card Area .................................................................................................................................... 19
4.4 Library Area ........................................................................... ........ .... ....... .... ........ ....... .... ........... 20
4.5 Shop Area ................................................................................................................................ .... 20
4.6 Application Area ......................................................................................................................... 20
4.7 Footer .................................... ........................................................................ .............................. 20
5 Features ................................................................................................................................ ............... 21
5.1 Card view .................................................................................................................................... 21
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Plug in Menca Card .............................................................................................................. 21
5.1.1
5.1.2 Content Browse .................................................................................................................... 22
5.1.3 eBooks .................................................................................................................................. 24
5.1.4 Audio Books ........................................................................................................................ 25
5.1.5 Music .................................................................................................................................... 26
5.1.6 Backup .................... ........... ........... ............... ............ ............... ........... ............... .......... ......... 27
5.2 Library .................................................................................................................................. ....... 30
5.2.1 Browse Structure: ................................................................................................................. 30
5.2.2 Browse Modes ...................................................................................................................... 31
5.2.3 Location Filter ...................................................................................................................... 32
5.2.4 eBooks .................................................................................................................................. 33
5.2.5 Audiobooks .......................................................................................................................... 35
5.2.6 Music .................................................................................................................................... 37
5.2.7 Other ..................................................................................................................................... 39
5.2.8 Search ................................................................................................................................... 40
5.3 zReader ....................................................................................................................................... 42
5.3.1 Supported Format ................................................................................................................. 42
5.3.2 How to open a book ............................................................................................................. 42
5.3.3 Function Menu ..................................................................................................................... 42
5.3.4 Turn Page ............................................................................................................................. 42
5.3.5 Search words in book ........................................................................................................... 43
5.3.6 Bookmark ............................................................................................................................. 44
5.3.7 Highlights & Notes .............................................................................................................. 46
5.3.8 TOC ...................................................................................................................................... 52
5.3.9 Reading history .................................................................................................................... 52
5.3.10 Go to page ............................................................................................................................ 52
5.3.11 Settings ................................................................................................................................. 53
5.3.12 Reading PDF in zoom-in mode ............................................................................................ 56
5.3.13 Standby mode ........................................ ............................................. .................................. 56
5.4 Audio Player ............................................................................................................................... 56
5.4.1 Supported audio formats ...................................................................................................... 56
5.4.2 How to play a track .............................................................................................................. 56
5.4.3 Playing screen .............................................................. ............................................. ........... 56
5.4.4 Play modes ........................................................................................................................... 57
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Play controls ..................................................................................................................... .... 57
5.4.5
5.5 AudioBook Player ....................................................................................................................... 58
5.5.1 Supported audio formats ...................................................................................................... 58
5.5.2 How to play a AudioBook .................................................................................................... 58
5.5.3 Playing screen .............................................................. ............................................. ........... 58
5.5.4 Play controls .................................................................................................................. ....... 59
5.5.5 Bookmark ............................................................................................................................. 59
5.6 Search .......................................................................................................................................... 60
5.7 FM sender ................................................................................................................................... 60
5.8 WikiPedia .................................................................................................................................... 62
5.9 Settings ......................................................................................................................... ............... 63
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1 Introduction
This manual is to introduce the user interface of R1 digireader, giving you an idea on how to use R1
DIGIREADER.
1.1 Technical Specification
CPU
Memory
Buttons &Navigation
Controls
Display
Battery&Adapter
Connectivity
Audio
Dimension
Weight
Operating System
Content formats
3rd Party Integration
Required
Localization for
build-in applications
Marvell PXA 166e, 800 MHz
256MB SLC NAND FLASH for boot code
256MB LP-DDR1-200 for working memory
6” Capacitive Single Touch screen
Home, Menu, Back, Power, Reset, Volume up/down keys, < , >
G-sensor
6” e-INK EPD, 800 x 600, 16 Level Grey Scale
3.7V, 1,530 mAh, rechargeable Lithium-Polymer
AC-DC power adapter, 5V/1A, USB Type-B connector
USB 2.0 device and power connection
SD memory card slot X1
Menca Card slot X1
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
FM Transmitter: SILICON LABS Si4710
Speaker Internal 1.0W x1
3.5mm headphone jack X1
170x118x11.7mm
205 +- 5 gm
Android 2.1
eBook: ePUB, PDF
Music: MP3, AA C, OGG, WAV, WMA
Audio Book: MP3, WMA
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Germany, English software keyboard
apk. files
English, German, Danish, Finish, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Spanish
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1.2 Control Placement
Front view:
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Back view：
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2 About R1 digireader
2.1 Design concept
The R1 digireader is an eBook reader running on Android 2.1.
2.2 Controls
2.2.1 Physical Buttons
The R1 digireader provides seven control buttons, which are “POWER”, “HOME”, “BACK”, “MENU”,
“VOLUME UP”, “VOLUME DOWN”, “RESET”, “ARROW<” and “ARROW>”
POWER: Pressing and holding this button for two (2) seconds will open a dialog box prompting
you if you want to shut down the system. And used to wake up system when system in Standby
mode.
HOME: Pressing this button whenever you want to switch back to the home screen. Press and
hold will show running processes.
MENU: Pressing this button will open the function menu of the active application.
BACK: Pressing this button during any operation will send you back to the previous menu.
VOLUME UP: Pressing this button can tune up the audio volume.
VOLUME DOWN: Pressing this button can tune down the audio volume.
RESET: Pressing this button will reboot the system.
ARROW<: Pressing this button will go to next page when reading or view. Press and hold will
turn back page by page.
ARROW>: Pressing th is button will go to previous page when reading or view. Press and hold
will turn forward page one by one.
2.2.2 Touch Gesture
The R1 digireader can detect and recognize following touch gestures as shown below:
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Press：This is the most useful gesture, requires only a single tap on the tou ch panel, and is frequently
used to select an option. The detectible minimum area for an effective press is 1.0 cm x1.0 cm.
Long-press: Press and hold y our finger on the panel for 2 to 3 seconds – this is one long -press gesture.
The detectible minimum area for this gesture is 1.0 cm x1.0 cm.
Slide-down：Put your fingers on the panel softly, slide it down at least 2cm, and lift it from the panel –
this is one slide-down gesture.
Slide-up: Put your fingers on the panel softly, slide it up at least 2 cm, and lift it from the panel – this is
one slide-up gesture.
Slide-left： Put your fingers on the panel softly, slide it to left at least 2cm, and lift it from the panel –
this is one slide-left gesture.
Slide-right：Put your fingers on the panel softly, slide it to right at least 2cm, and lift it from the panel –
this is one slide-right gesture.
2.3 Input Method / On-screen Keyboard
The R1 digireader provides in default two kinds of input methods – English and Google Pinyin -- with
their corresponding on-screen keyboard. You can specify y our favorite input method as default through
setting menus.
Note: Press an input area can bring up the on-screen keyboard.
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2.3.1 On-screen Keyboard for English Input Method
The function for each key shown above is as described below：
The key with an alphabet character printed on it is an alphabet key, and you can press o n it to input the
corresponding character.
This is the Enter key.
This is the Delete key (which is for deleting input character).
A press on this will hide the on-screen keyboard.
A press on this will active the capital mode, and will change the interface of the on-screen
keyboard as shown below:
This is the Space key.
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This is the numerical switching key. A press on it will change the interface of the keyboard
as shown below:
2.3.2 Google Pinyin Input Method
The key functions for this method are similar to that of the English input method, so the description is
saved here and please refer to the previous section for deta ils. With the Pinyin input method, you can
input text in English and Simplified Chinese. The interface of the on-screen keyboard is as below.
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2.4 Cards
The R1 digireader provides the capability of reading and writing SD card and Menca card, The R1
digireader supports both MicroSD card (hereafter referred as “SD Card”) and Menca card (hereafter
referred as “Menca card”).
2.4.1 SD Card
The R1 digireader support SD card work as two modes, one is standard SD card mode, another is
encrypted mode(hereafter referred as “euSD”), The user can choose type when format the SD card.
2.4.1.1 euSD
euSD is a standard SDCard too, euSD is used for both user data and backu p/lend/purchase data.
And there are two partitions on euSD (Divide the sd card into half):
z Open Partition: Unencrypted. User can use it store any contents from any where, such as
copy from PC … and any device can access contents in it freely
z Close Partition: Use some mechanism to protect contents o n the SD card. It is used to store
contents that backup/lend from Menca Card, and contents download fro m Cloud. It couldn’t
be accessed by any other device.
There are four pre-built folders under Open partition table of euSD:
Music: System will treat all files under it as music, and import them to the Library, and they can be
browse under Music of the Library.
Audiobook: System will treat all files under it as Audiobook, and import them to the Library, and they
can be browse under Audiobook of the Library.
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eBook: Sytstem will treat all files under it as eBook, and import them to the Library, and they can be
browse under eBook of the Library.
Others: No matter what files in it, system do not classify them. Even the pdf files, music files…
2.4.1.2 Standard SD card
Standard SD card that no any encryptions.
2.4.2 Menca Card
Publisher should put their content to the Menca Card, and there is an encryption partition table to
protect contents in it. Menca card can only be accessed by R1 device, There are two ty pes for Menca card
partition table:
z Open Partition: Unencrypted. User can use it store any contents from any where, such as
copy from PC … and any device can access contents in it freely
z Close Partition: Use some mechanism to protect contents in it. It is used for publisher to
store their contents on the Menca Card, It only can be accessed by R1 DIGIREADER device.
2.4.3 Access cards
You can access from a PC to open partition of your cards(include SD card and Menca card) installed in
your R1 digireader to exchange files.
All you need is to connect your R1 digireader to your PC with a USB cable. As soon as you complete the
connection, the screen will change to the one as shown below:
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Select here “Mount as Disk Driver(s)”, and SD card and Menca card will be moun ted as two standard
removable disk drivers. In the Windows XP, for example, there will be two removable disks newly added,
as shown below. Now, you can copy files from your PC to both Card disks, as well as manage the
documents stored in your R1 digireader.
You can store files in your SD card using other SD card devices, and then insert it into the SD card slot on
your R1 DIGIREADER to read the files.
Note: To the files stored in the SD cards and Menca cards, your R1 digireader will automatically perform
necessary processes such as sorting and categorizing. The time required for such processes depends on the
number and size of the files.
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3 Power ON/OFF
3.1 Steps to power on
1. A press on the POWER button.
2. The ePapaer screen display to white.
3. Kibano image appears.
4. The system is completely booted and the Home screen is open .
3.2 Steps to power off
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1. Long press the POWER button
2. A shutdown confirmation dialog box pops out
3. After user’s confirmation, the system shows the shutdown is progressing
4. The ePapaer screen turn to white
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4 Interface
4.1 Home Screen
Overview for Home Screen:
Library Area
4.2 Status Bar
On the top area of the screen, there is the Status Bar. It is for showing many kind of system operating
information, including battery status, network status, and current time, as well as messages notifying you
an SD card being inserted/removed.
4.2.1 Battery status
In normal operation mode, the battery status icon indicates how many power is still left – more the white
stripes, more the power left. When the battery is in full charged, the icon will be full of the stripes.
When starting the battery charging, the icon will turn into as shown below.
And once the battery fully charged, the icon will switch back to the normal operation mode with
indicating fully charged.
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4.2.2 Wireless network status
The network status will be shown in one of the icons shown below: more the white stripes, better the
network signa l.
4.2.3 Bluetooth status
This icon indicates the Bluetooth function has been activated. If see no this icon, it means the
function is still not activated.
This icon indicates that your EB-800C has established a connection with other Bluetooth device.
4.2.4 SD card status
This icon indicates a SD card is newly inserted and the system is running a check on it (In most of
case, you will not see this icon appears, since the check is seldom required). The icon often will quickly
be blocked from your sight by the “Preparing the SD card” message, which will also disappear soon after
the SD card is ready.
This icon indicates the system is performing some preparations to the files stored in the external
SD card. The preparations can be such as sorting and categorizing. Once the preparations are completed,
this icon will disappear. The time required for such preparations depends on the number and size of the
files.
This icon indicates the external SD card can be removed safely, and will be shown until the card is
removed from the slot. After the card being removed, the icon will be replaced by
that the SD card slot is now empty.
This icon indicates that the SD card slot is empty, and will be shown until a SD card being inserted
into the slot.
to remind you
4.3 Card Area
In the Home screen, Menca Card overview is shown on the Card Area. And shortcuts for first three
alphabetical order items in the Menca Card are placed there (eBook has high priority, then Audiobook,
and then Music)
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When user Press “View all” button or Card ICON will guide user go to the Menca view directly;
When user Press each shortcut, it should try to open it, for example: if the item is an eBook, Open and
read it, if the item is a AudioBook or Music, Open and play it.
4.4 Library Area
In the Home screen, Library overview is shown on the Library Area. And shortcuts for the last three
uploading to the Library are placed there too.
When user Press “View all” button will guide user go to the Library view directly;
When user Press each shortcut, it should try to open it, for example: if the item is an eBook, Open and
read it, if the item is a AudioBook or Music, Open and play it.
4.5 Shop Area
In the Home screen, Library overview is shown on the Shop Area, When the user press “View all” button
will guide user go to the shop application. And four shotcut of books are placed there, when user Press
any of it will show detail information of it on the shop.
4.6 Application Area
In the Home screen, Some shortcuts of application are shown on the Application Area, Press any of them
will go directly to main screen of that application. User can use Touch gestures or Press arrow button on it
to navigate it. Slide-left or Press arrow”>”: go to next 5 applications, Slide-right or Press arrow”<”: go to
previous 5 applications.
4.7 Footer
In the Home screen, Shortcut for current reading/playing are place on the Footre Area if the user is
playing a audiobook or music, or opening a book reading.
Press the shortcut will got to the audio player page or reading page.
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