In this chapter you will learn how to prepare the Device
for work and will read about its main control features.
CHARGING BATTERY
To extend battery lifetime, it is recommended to charge
the Device for the rst time from 8 to 12 hours in the off
state. You can charge the battery from PC using USB-cable
or from the power line using a charger (optional).
To charge the battery for the rst time, do the following:
1. Connect the Device to a computer or charger with
USB-cable. Indicator will glow as soon, as the charging
starts
2. When the battery is fully charged, indicator goes
off. Now you can disconnect the Device and turn it on for
the rst use.
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NOTE The indication can be switched off in Setings > Appear-
ance> LED Indication section.
If the Device is on when you connect the cable to PC, a
dialog window asking to select action – PC link or Charge—
will appear.
POWER MANAGEMENT
To turn on the Device, press On/Off button until startup
logo will appear. When the Device is ready to operate, an
image will be changed to Main menu or last opened book,
depending on settings (Settings > Personalize > Open at
startup).
To turn off the Device, press On/Off button continuously
until the Device goes off. In addition, you can set automatic key lock or power off: go to Settings > Saving Power>
Power off after or Lock Device after respectively, and set the
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idle time before locking the Device or power off. To unlock
the Device, press On/Off button shortly.
In case if your Device ‘freezes’ (does not respond to keys
presses or screen touches and perform no actions for 2-3
minutes), you can restart it by pressing Reset button on
side panel with some thin item (e.g. unbent paper clip).
CAUTION! Don’t use sharp items, such as needles, to press Re-
set button to avoid Device case damage! Don’t use this feature
frequently, because it affects the electronic components of the
Device.
LOADING FILES
Connect the Device to the PC using microUSB cable.
NOTE The Device should be kept on while transferring les.
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You will be prompted to select USB mode: PC Link or
Charge either. Select PC Link. Operating system of com-
puter will detect Device’s storage as removable disk (if SD
card installed – as two ones). Now you can copy les to
the Device or SD card using Explorer or other le manager.
ATTENTION! After copying les safely remove the Device before
disconnect the cable!
GESTURES
ATTENTION! Touch screen of the Device is sensitive enough and
is a fragile detail. To avoid its damage, please, touch it carefully
while controlling the Device with gestures.
Tap
Opens an element (book, le, folder application or
menu item).
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Touch & hold
Opens context menu of an element (if available).
Slide
Turns pages of a book or a list; moves an image:
slide your nger across the screen.
Flick
Scrolls lists: move your nger across the screen
rapidly.
Scaling
Changes the image scale: place two ngers
on a screen and pinch them together to
zoom out or spread them apart to zoom in.
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WORKING WITH ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD
On-screen keyboard is used when it is necessary to enter
text information, for example, for search or network con-
nection credentials.
To type a symbol, press a key. To switch to another in-
put language, press the current language button. To add
the language to the on-screen keyboard layout go to Set-
tings> Languages > Keyboard Layouts.
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1. Change case
2. Enter the typed text
3. Close the on-screen keyboard
4. Erase last typed symbol
5. Change input language.
As you type a password (e.g. Wi-Fi credentials) icon
will appear on a text eld. Touch it to see typed symbols.
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CONNECTING TO THE INTERNET
The Device can be connected to the Internet using
Wi-Fi networks. If you open an application, which requires
Internet access (e.g. Browser, PocketNews) the Device will
open a list of available Wi-Fi connections. If the network
you select is protected, you will be suggested to enter
network key using the on-screen keyboard.
You can pre-congure a connection and set an automatic
connection. To proceed, follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings > Network > Network Access
2. Select On for the Network access checkbox and then
further settings appear: Automatic connection, Connection
to a hidden network, and a list of available Wi-Fi networks.
NOTE If there are no available networks or the signal strength is
week, Available networks are not displayed and instead replaced by
Scanning — searching for available networks.
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3. To set up connection with a hidden network, open
Connection to a hidden network and enter its SSID from
the on-screen keyboard in the Network name (SSID) eld.
4. Select security type in the corresponding list:
• None – for an open network
• Simple (WEP) – after you select this option, you
will need to specify WEPAuthentication type – Open
System or Shared Key either. The Device cannot rec-
ognize authentication type automatically
• WPA/WPA2 Enterprise – you will need to specify
username, password and domain (if necessary)
• WPA/WPA2 PSK – you will need to enter net-
work key (up to 64 symbols)
5. Open Advanced settings. Select the idle time be-
fore disconnection in the corresponding section
6. If it is needed to congure network settings
manually, go to Advanced settings, and change IP address
conguration:
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• DHCP — get IP address automatically (if DHCP
server is congured)
• Manual (for skilled users) — enter networks pa-
rameters manually from the on-screen keyboard
7. If the network you need to connect to has a proxy
server, you can specify its parameters in Proxy congura-
tion section
8. To check network conguration and connect to a
network, return to the Connection to hidden network sec-
tion and press Connect.
NOTE Wi-Fi connection can be used for connecting to an Inter-
net network. Transferring data via Wi-Fi connection is unavailable.
The Device can be connected to a Wi-Fi access point with MAC
address ltration applied.
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INSERTING MICRO SD CARD
The Device already has 2 GB of internal storage, but you
can extend it by using micro SD card. Insert it to the slot,
like it is shown on a gure, and slightly push until card
will be xed.
To eject the card, slightly press on its edge until it will be
unxed, and pull it to get.
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Main Menu
In this chapter you will learn about basic elements of user
interface of the Device.
After turning on the Device Main menu will be displayed
on the screen (if Settings > Personalize > Open at start-
up corresponding option was set). To return to the Main
menu from any application, press key.
NOTE Return to Main menu by pressing button doesn’t close
application or book, it is still running in background. You can
switch back to an application by opening task list on status bar
icon touch.
Main menu consists of Recent Events section and applica-
tion panel. When application panel is hidden, there are
two quick access buttons displayed: Library and Book Store.
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Main menu overview
Recent Events is a list of recently
opened and downloaded books
Filtration
of events
Events of friends
on ReadRate
Last read book
Last downloaded
Collapse
Applications panel
Applications panel
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RECENT EVENTS
This section displays last actions on the Device, namely last
opened, recently loaded books and your friends’ events on
ReadRate and recommendations (see details in Social net-
works & ReadRate). You can congure ltration by pressing
on a sign in the top right corner of the screen:
Filtration
Set marks opposite news,
you would like to receive
After you touch recently opened book title, it will be
opened on a page you have nished reading before. After
touching a message about recently added books, Library
will be opened displaying added books. Books will be
grouped by creation date.
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Library Overview
Exit
Search
Menu
1
2
3
4
5
Turn Library pages
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LIBRARY
Library is e-books le manager. To open a book, touch its
title. Library menu allows to lter, group, sort, change ap-
pearance of the section and perform search.
1 Filtration criteria
• All Books – all books on selected storage are
displayed
• Now reading – books were opened and read more
than one page
• Favorites – books chosen by a user by means of
the context menu.
2 Grouping criteria
Depending on selected grouping next parameters are dis-
played as folders’ titles:
• Folder – real folder name
• Author – an alphabet is added at the top of the screen
• Series
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• Genre
• Format
• Date Added.
3 Sorting criteria
• File names
• Book titles
• Last opened
• Creation date
• Series
• Author.
Sorting can be ascending or descending .
4 Books list views
Simple – in this mode next information is displayed:
• Folder or le format icon
• Book title and author name (if known)
• Location icon (if le is located on memory card)
• Read percentage and Read status.
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Detailed – in this mode there are added thumbnails,
information about le format and size, read percentage
and status icons: Read, Favorite.
Thumbnails – in this mode book cover, book and au-
thor name (if known) and Favorite icon are displayed.
5 Storage-dependent appearance has
three options:
•Internal + memory card
• Internal
• Memory card.
Context menu…
…opened by continuous touch…
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…and allows proceeding with next le and folder
operations:
• Open (if item can be opened with alternative
reader program — Open with…)
• Information – brief information about book/folder.
• Mark as read/unread
• Add to/Remove from Favorites
• File – le operations
• Rename
• Move to folder
• Delete
• Find — allows quick book search by the follow-
ing criteria: by author or title, all books of the author, all
books of the series (if the author or the series is known)
• Exit — exit Library.
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BOOK STORE
Book Store application provides quick and convenient li-
censed content download from Book Store portal to your
Device. The internet connection must be active.
NOTES
In this section you can view all the notes made during
reading. After you select a note, the table of contents of
the book, where it was made, will be opened. Please, read
more about notes creation and editing in Notes.
DICTIONARY
Enter a word by on-screen keyboard, and the application
will nd its translation. To change dictionary, press
button or touch icon at the right top corner, and select
the dictionary from a list.
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MUSIC
Music player for playing .mp3 media les.
Application
menu
Progress barPlaylist
CloseCollapse
Repeat once
Normal
Shufe
Press to switch
Previous
Play/Pause
-
Next
Volume
Press / to switch
+
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In the Application menu you can add audio les and fold-
ers with audio to the playlist, rearrange tracks, and save or
clear playlist. By means of the context menu, opened with
a long press on the track, you can perform the following
operations: view info about track, add to queue, or remove
the le from the list.
APPLICATIONS
This section contains games and additional software. To
exit an application, press key or corresponding menu
item .
Calculator
Engineering calculator supports a wide range of math-
ematical operations, such as different numeric systems,
trigonometric, logarithm, power and logical operations.
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Chess
You can play versus your friend or the Device. If you are
playing against the Device, you can select 10 difculty
levels.
Calendar & Clock
Opens current month calendar and clock. Navigation /
allows turning over a calendar. The button returns you
to the current month. Read about date and time setting in
Date/Time manual’s chapter.
Klondike
Classic solitaire.
PocketNews
Application for adding and reading RSS feeds. To add RSS
news feeds, open RSS setup. Select the Add RSS feed op-
tion. Enter the feed address using the on-screen keyboard.
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To delete the feed, select it, open the context menu and
select Delete command or press the Recycle bin icon .
To edit the feed, select it, open the context menu and se-
lect Edit name or Edit URL command. Edit the RSS feed
name or address using the on-screen keyboard.
To update feed, select Update in the application menu.
Updated content is added to the le with .hrss extension,
and the le will be accessible for reading after updating.
The news downloading status is displayed while updating.
After the update le is available for reading off-line using
the browser.
To read latest feeds, select Read the latest news option in
the application’s menu. The latest downloaded RSS feed
updates open in browser.
News Archive: by selecting this option you can choose to
read the previously stored updating RSS feeds.
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Scribble
Application for drawing.
To select the drawing tool, use the application control
panel:
Text: select the position and size of the text box. Text
is entered with the on-screen keyboard
Pencil: a tool for drawing thin lines
Marker: a tool for drawing thick lines
Eraser: a tool for removing lines and text
Back: cancel the last operation
Current drawing/total number of drawings: change
the current drawing
New: start new drawing
Delete drawing
Exit application.
To save a picture, touch icon. The current picture will
be saved to the My Pictures folder in the root folder of the
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Device. In addition, Scribble application is used for editing
graphic notes.
Sudoku
Popular Japanese puzzle. Press on an empty cell to select
it. After that you can input in the selected cell the digit
you think should be in the cell or set labels — digits that
you suggest may be in the cell. Digits and labels should
be chosen from the bottom selection panel.
Browser
This is an application for viewing web-pages. As you start
Browser, you are suggested to connect to one of available
wireless networks.
To enter website address, touch address bar, type an ad-
dress from on-screen keyboard appeared and press En-
ter. To follow a link, just touch it. If a web-page doesn’t
t a screen, you can scroll it: place your nger on the
screen and move a page. Also, you can change scale of a
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web-page using zooming gestures (pinch or spread two
ngers). Hardware buttons / are used to scroll page
vertically: scrolls down and scrolls up, respectively.
Browser supports multiple windows, so you can open a
new window for the corresponding browser menu section
and view all opened windows. Also, from browser menu
you can view history of visited websites, downloads, fa-
vorites, adjust scale of displaying web-pages, rotate a
screen and congure the browser from Settings section.
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Under Settings you can clear history and cookies, disable/
enable JavaScript and loading images.
To exit Browser, touch the corresponding item in browser
menu.
Book Store
Book Store application provides quick and convenient licensed content download from Book Store portal (http://
www.bookland.com/) to your Device. The internet connec-
tion must be active.
If you are already registered, press I already have an ac-
count BookLand and check if the login and password are
entered correctly at Book Store settings.
In order to use Book Store, do the following:
1. Register at the portal Book Store (http://www.
bookland.com/)
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2. Add your Device to your account by entering a se-
rial number of a device on the site.
3. Enter your account data at Book Store in the sec-
tion Settings > Accounts and Synchronization in your Device
If the connection with an account is set properly, you get
access to all the features of a portal.
Exit
Land
Personal room
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Press the Personal Room to expand options for work with
a personal account:
Top up the balance – top up the balance on a site Book-
Land or directly on the Device using the bank card (Visa,
MasterCard, Maestro).
Purchase history – the list of goods, purchased at the store
My cards – used bank cards
Exit.
Select the book and press Buy to purchase goods. Choose
the format of a downloading book and press Buy and
download on the page Your purchase. The bought le is
moved to the folder Library > Downloads and is displayed
on the wall of Last events of the Main Menu.
NOTE If there is no money on your balance, it will be offered to
you to top up the balance on a site BookLand or directly on the
Device using the bank card (Visa, MasterCard, Maestro).
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PocketBook Sync
PocketBook Sync service allows you to download all books,
chosen on the book store, directly to your Device (or even
to several devices).
PocketBook Sync is convenient because you can choose les
from the store in advance and then download them on your
Device in any time convenient for you.
Usage
NOTE For correct work of PocketBook Sync time and date on the De-
vice should be adjusted properly (Settings > Date/time)
To use PocketBook Sync you need to perform several sim-
ple steps:
Registration
1. Register at the portal Book Store. (For example,
at the portal www.bookland.com you need to add your
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Device to your account by entering a serial number of the
Device on the site).
2. Authorize in PocketBook Sync. Do the following:
• launch the PocketBook Sync application and
choose Authorize, or choose Login item in PocketBook
Sync Settings (Settings > Accounts and Synchronization >
PocketBook Sync). If Wi-Fi connection has not been acti-
vated, the Device will generate a connection request).
• choose the store, where you are registered, from
the list of content providers, and enter your account data.
Choosing and Sending Content to Your Device
Choose the books on the Book Store and send them to
the Device. (For example, in the BookLand www.bookland.
com you need to choose content in the Items section and
press Send to PocketBook).
Downloading Content on the Device
Turn on Wi-Fi connection on your Device or choose Update
in PocketBook Sync application (if Wi-Fi connection has
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not been activated, the Device will generate the connec-
tion request).
If Automatic connection is chosen in PocketBook Sync
settings, Wi-Fi will be activated automatically ev-
ery half an hour for checking new links (if the Device is not powered off/not in sleeping mode).
The list of downloads will be automatically loaded to the
queue after successful setting connection.
If Automatic download is chosen in PocketBook Sync set-
tings, the download will start automatically. If By request
is chosen in PocketBook Sync settings, then a list of titles
prepared for download to the Device will be displayed in
the In queue section. You need to select one, several or
all items in the list and choose Download (you can also
delete undesirable links by choosing Delete).
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You will see downloading and downloaded les in the
Downloads section. Downloaded les are moved to the
Download folder, location of which is dened in the Pock-
etBook Sync settings (Downloads folder by default). The
downloaded le is displayed on the wall of Last events
of the Main Menu.
Photo
Opens Library in the mode of viewing images (downloaded to the folder Photo). The opened photo is displayed in
a full-screen mode. To set a photo as Boot Logo or Power-
off Logo, to Rotate or view Information about it, touch the
full-screen image to switch to the editing mode and press
menu sign in the right top corner of the screen. In the
editing mode you can zoom a photo by zooming gestures
and set the selected area as a logo.
Dropbox PocketBook
Dropbox application allows to download les, added to
Dropbox from any computer or any device with installed
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Dropbox app or from the Dropbox website, to your Device.
And you do not need to install anything to your Pocket-
Book, it is enough to authorize in the service.
How to start using
1. Register in the Dropbox service (www.dropbox.com)
2. Input your Dropbox account data (email address
and password) on your PocketBook Device in the section
‘Settings> Accounts and Synchronization > Dropbox > Login’
to authorize Dropbox. (The Wi-Fi connection should be on,
otherwise you will be asked to turn it on)
3. After successful authorization, the ‘Dropbox Pock-
etBook’ sync folder will be created in the Library of the De-
vice. The ‘Application > Dropbox PocketBook’ directory will
show up in your Dropbox account, and after synchroniza-
tion it will be available from other devices with Dropbox.
NOTE The application on your device will have access only to
les in the ‘Dropbox PocketBook’ folder on the server
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How to synchronize
Automatically:
1. Files, added to the directory ‘Application > Dropbox
PocketBook’ on the server and to the sync folder on your De-
vice, will be automatically synchronized when the internet
connection is on.
2. All synchronized les will be downloaded to the
sync folder in the Library (by default, ‘Dropbox PocketBook’
is the sync folder, but you can change it in ‘Settings > Ac-
counts and Synchronization > Dropbox > Sync Folder’)
Manually:
1. To synchronize all content in sync folders, in Set-
tings choose ‘Accounts and Synchronization > Dropbox >
Synchronize Now’, or in the Library choose ‘Synchronize
Now’ in the context menu of the sync folder.
2. After synchronization all obtained les will be also
available in the sync folder in the Library on the Device. You
can go to this folder from Settings — by continuous touch on
the «Sync Folder», and from Applications > Dropbox PocketBook
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Send-to-PocketBook
The application allows to send les to the email address
of your Device. Sent books will be automatically down-
loaded to your Device, if the Wi-Fi is turned on.
How to start using
1. Register for the Send-to-PocketBook service, for
this purpose do the following:
• Launch application:
• from the Applications > Send-to-PocketBook
section;
• or from Settings > Accounts and Synchroniza-
tion> Send-to-PocketBook.
NOTE: The Wi-Fi connection should be on, otherwise you will be
asked to turn it on.
• In the opened wizard enter your contact email ad-
dress and password.
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• The email with the activation link will be sent to the
specied address. Follow this link to receive the email ad-
dress of your Device (for example, username@pbsync.com).
NOTE: The contact email address is used only for the authoriza-
tion of the application, and the service address of the Device user-
name@pbsync.com is used for sending books to it, if you want
them to be downloaded to your Device.
2. After activation update the registration wizard
on the Device. After that all applications features will be
available for you, and the download folder for received
books will be created in the library — Send to PocketBook.
Howtogetles
Automatically:
1. Files, sent to the service email address of your De-
vice, will be automatically downloaded to the download
folder in the Device Library, when the internet connection
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is on. Download folder is available after authorization
from the locations:
• Applications > Send-to-PocketBook
• Settings > Accounts and synchronizations > Send-
to-PocketBook > Go to folder of the context menu of the
Download folder
• Library > Send-to-PocketBook.
2. By default, ‘Send-to-PocketBook’ is the download
folder, but you can change it at registration or in the
Settings> Accounts and synchronization > Send-to-Pocket-
Book> Download folder section.
Manually:
To update the content of the download folder, in Settings
choose Accounts and synchronization > Send-to-Pocket-
Book> Receive les now or in Library choose Receive les
now in the context menu of the download folder.
Received les will be also available in the download fold-
er in the Library of the Device.
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The list of trusted senders
Documents can be downloaded on the Device, if they are
sent from the address, contained in the ‘white list’ (a list
of the trusted senders).
The address, specied at registration, is contained in the
list by default.
If the mail is sent to your Device from the unknown ad-
dress, you will receive the letter with a proposal to add a
sender to the ‘white list’. After your conrmation you will
receive les from the added address to your Device. Thus,
spam won’t get on the Device.
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SEARCH
After selecting this item the on-screen keyboard will be
opened, so you will be able to type in a search query –
a part from le name, book title or author’s mane. After
entering the query Library, displaying search results, will
open.
STATUS BAR
Status bar is located at the bottom of the screen and
briey displays system info. In reading mode status bar
displays current page and total page count. To switch to a
system status bar, press the icon .
Date & time
PocketBook Status
Touch to open
task list
Wi-Fi is connected
Touch to view info
Battery charge
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TASK MANAGEMENT
Device software supports multitasking, and you can quickly
switch between running applications in several ways:
• by touching status bar icon
• by evoking task manager by continuous press on
the Home button.
Besides task switching, you can force close running ap-
plications: press against an application in the list .
You can also access quickly some Device control features:
• Lock Device. To unlock, press On/Off button
• Open wireless connections list
• Open music player
• Turn off the Device.
NOTE Return to Main menu by pressing button doesn’t close
application, it is still running in background. That causes, for ex-
ample, that read percentage displayed in Library doesn’t change
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after you exit the book by pressing . To close application com-
pletely, touch top left corner of the screen, press button con-
tinuously or the corresponding application menu item.
INSTALLING EXTENSIONS
You can install additional Text-to-Speech packages (avail-
able for download on PocketBook website in Support sec-
tion) and dictionaries (you can purchase dictionaries in
Book Store).
1. Copy extension le with .pbi extension to the De-
vice internal storage.
2. Disconnect the Device from PC.
3. Loaded le will appear in Last Events.
4. Launch copied extension le as an application
and conrm installation.
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Reading Books
In this chapter you will learn how to read e-books and
congure reader software for the most comfortable read-
ing. The Device supports next book formats: PDF, EPUB (in-