Palm READER User Manual

Palm

™

Reader Handbook

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Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties which may arise through the use of this software. Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on other media to protect against data loss.

IMPORTANT Please read the End User Software License Agreement with this product before using the accompanying software program(s). Using any part of the software indicates that you accept the terms of the End User Software License Agreement.

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About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1: Obtaining and Installing eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Installing Palm Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Obtaining eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Installing eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Quick Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2: Using the Palm™ Reader Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Opening and switching between eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Using hyperlinks and images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hyperlinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Turning pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Turning one page at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Jumping to a particular page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using the toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Using Go menu commands to navigate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Using Find and Find Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Using bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Creating bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Finding bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Deleting bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Using notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Creating notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Viewing, editing, and finding notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Deleting notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Exporting notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using Auto Scroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Chapter 3: Managing eBooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Viewing book information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Finding out how much memory an eBook uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Copying an eBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Deleting an eBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Beaming an eBook to another handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Chapter 4: Customizing the Palm™ Reader Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Selecting Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Palm Reader Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Toolbar Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Screen Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Auto Scroll Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

About This Book

Welcome to the Palm™ Reader Handbook. This handbook provides information you need to begin using the Palm™ Reader application on your handheld to read eBooks and manage eBook files.

NOTE Your handheld may include a navigator button you use to open dialog boxes

and to select items, and a Graffiti

2 writing area or keyboard you use to open menus, enter text, and select items. These actions are described generically throughout this handbook. See your handheld handbook for more information on how to perform these actions.

This book walks you through the following:

■ Quick Reference for Palm Reader

■ Obtaining and installing eBooks on your Palm OS

■ Opening and reading eBooks

■ Turning pages and navigating to other locations in eBooks

■ Using the toolbar and Go menu

■ Creating, using, and deleting bookmarks

■ Creating, using, deleting, and exporting notes

■ Using Auto Scroll

■ Viewing book information

■ Using categories to organize eBooks

handheld

■ Copying, deleting, and beaming eBooks

■ Customizing the Palm Reader application

About This Book

The Palm™ Reader application allows you to read eBook files on your Palm OS® handheld. It displays the contents of eBook files on your handheld’s screen in a page-by-page format, as paper books do; provides methods for navigating quickly and easily in eBooks with support for embedded hyperlinks and images; includes options for managing eBook files; and allows you to save bookmarks and add notes to pages.

System requirements

To use the Palm Reader application, you need the following:

■ A Palm OS handheld running Palm OS 3.0 or later

■ A Windows or Mac computer with the Palm™ Desktop software

If you intend to download eBooks, you must also have:

CHAPTER 1

Obtaining and Installing eBooks

■ A web browser installed

■ Internet access

Installing Palm Reader

To use Palm Reader, you must install the software files located on the Software Essentials CD-ROM.

To install Palm Reader (Windows):

1. Insert the Software Essentials CD-ROM into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2. From the categories listed on the left side of the Install screen, click the

Entertainment tab, and then click Palm Reader.

3. Click Install Now to send the files to Palm™ Quick Install.

NOTE If Palm Quick Install is not already open, a confirmation dialog box will

appear. In the User drop-down list, select the name that corresponds to your handheld. Click OK to send the files to Palm Quick Install.

4. Connect your handheld to the cradle/cable and press the HotSync

button ™.

Chapter 1 Obtaining and Installing eBooks

To install Palm Reader (Mac computer):

1. Insert the Software Essentials CD-ROM into your computer’s CD-ROM drive.

2. Double-click the Software Essentials CD, open the Entertainment folder and

then open the Palm Reader folder.

3. Select all files except the handbook, and then double-click.

4. In the User drop-down list, verify that the user name corresponds to your

handheld.

NOTE

and then click Remove from List. Select the correct name and then begin again from step 3.

5. Connect your handheld to the cradle/cable and press the HotSync button .

Obtaining eBooks

eBooks are available from Palm, Inc.

To obtain eBooks from the Internet:

1. Use your web browser to go to

eBook Library.

2. Locate an eBook you want, pay for the book if necessary, and download it to

your computer.

NOTE

sure to specify a folder on your computer, such as the desktop, that you can find easily.

Installing eBooks

If the user name is not correct, reselect the files you selected in step 3

www.palmsource.com/software

You’ll need to be able to find the file after you’ve downloaded it, so be

, and then click

Installing eBooks on your handheld or expansion card is similar to installing an add-on application. Add the eBook file to the queue of files to be copied or updated the next time you perform a HotSync operation.

To see the installed eBooks, start the Palm Reader application. See “Opening and

switching between eBooks” in Chapter 2.

Installing eBooks

To install eBooks using a Windows computer:

1. Copy or download the eBook file(s) you want to install on your computer.

2. Double-click the Palm Quick Install icon on the Windows desktop.

User drop-down

list

Add button

3. In the User drop-down list, select the name that corresponds to your handheld.

4. Click Add.

To install a folder, open the File menu and select Add Folder.

TIP

5. Select the eBook file(s) that you want to install.

If you do not see the eBook file(s) in the default folder, navigate to the folder that contains the eBook file(s) that you want to install.

You can also install eBooks in other ways: by double-clicking the eBook

TIP

file(s); by right-clicking the eBook file(s) and sending them to Palm Quick Install; or by opening the Palm Quick Install window and dragging and dropping the eBook file(s) to the handheld file list or the expansion card file list.

6. Click OK.

7. If you need to change the destination of the eBook file(s) you are installing, drag

the files to move them between the handheld and the expansion card file list.

8. Perform a HotSync operation to install the selected eBook file(s).

To install eBooks using a Mac computer:

1. Copy or download the eBook file(s) into the Add-on folder in your Palm folder.

(If the file is compressed, expand it into this folder.)

2. Double-click the HotSync Manager icon in the Palm folder.

3. From the HotSync menu, select Install Handheld Files.

4. From the User pop-up menu, select your user name.

Chapter 1 Obtaining and Installing eBooks

5. Click Add to List.

6. Select the eBook file(s) that you want to install.

7. Click Add File to add the eBook file(s) to the Install Handheld Files list.

You can also drag eBook files to the list in the Install Handheld Files dialog

TIP

box. The eBook files are copied to the Files To Install folder.

8. If you need to change the destination of the eBook file(s), click Change

Destination in the Install Handheld Files window, and then use the arrows to move the eBook file(s) between your handheld and an expansion card. Click OK to close the Change Destination window.

9. Close the Install Handheld Files window.

10. Perform a HotSync operation to install the eBook file(s) on your handheld or

expansion card.

Quick Reference

This section provides a way for you to quickly familiarize yourself with the Palm Reader functions.

Tap the bookmark to remove it. If there is no bookmark, tapping here adds a bookmark.

Tap top half of screen to move up one page.

Tap bottom half of screen to move down one page.

Tap to go to a particular page.

Back button for eBooks with hyperlinks.

Current time.

Information about this book.

Invert display (white ink on black background).

Add a note on this page.

Go to or add a bookmark for this page.

Table of Contents for this eBook.

The navigator button allows you to move up and down in menus and pick lists, and right and left between menus, without using the stylus. You can scroll down to view information below the viewing area, and scroll up to view information

Quick Reference

above the viewing area. The center button, Select, allows you to select items in dialog boxes and menus.

Navigator

■ Select: Select inserts the highlight in lists; opens a highlighted item; closes most

dialog boxes that contain a Done or OK button; and sets a bookmark on the current page, or clears it if one already exists. Holding down the Select button will return you to the Applications Launcher.

■ Up/Left: Go to the previous page in the eBook you are reading.

■ Down/Right: Go to the next page in the eBook you are reading.

■ In menus: After you open the menus, press Right and Left on the navigator to

move between menus, press Down on the navigator to select the command you want to use, and then press Select on the navigator to run the command.

Look for the navigator icon to find navigator tips throughout this handbook.

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