Mobipocket Reader Help
Mobipocket.com
27/04/00

Mobipocket Reader 3.0 for Psion

User Guide

Table Of Contents

Getting started

Your Personal ID (PID)

Toolbar icons

The Mobipocket Reader Menus

Page number popup menu

Hyperlinks and the link back arrow

Getting started

Where to find e-books

How to open an e-book

How to turn pages

The progression bar

Page numbers

Read in Fullscreen

Where to find e-books

You can download e-books from the Mobipocket Web site Library (http://www.mobipocket.com).
Sync the books from your desktop computer to your device using the Microsoft
Active Sync utility (please refer to the Active Sync documentation for more
information on this operation).

Install the Mobipocket Web Companion on your PC and read eNews from your favorite
Web sites on your Windows CE device! You can download the Mobipocket Reader
Web Edition from http://www.mobipocket.com/download.htm.

How to open an e-book

To open an e-book, go to the Mobipocket Menu, by clicking on the title of the
Mobipocket application at the top left of the screen, and click on the Bookshelf
menu to display the list of e-books available on your device. Select a book,
and click on Open, or double-click on the book.

How to turn pages

To go to the Next page : click on the right half of the screen or press the
Down key.

To go to the Previous page : click on the left half of the screen or press
the Up key.

The Progression bar

The thin bar at the bottom of the screen represents your current position in
the e-book. Click on any part of it to navigate to another position in the book.
Then click on the link back arrow to return to
where you came from.

Page numbers

The current page number is displayed at the top right of the screen. This is
only an estimated page number, because the Reader uses a dynamic page numbering
to allow faster navigation throughout a book, and to allow quick font size changing.

Read in Full-screen

Press Ctrl - B to toggle between Full-screen and Normal screen mode. In Full-screen
mode, the toolbar disappears.

Your Personal ID (PID)

Your Personal ID or PID is displayed in the About box of the Mobipocket Menu.
The PID uniquely identifies the Mobipocket Reader application on your device.
You may be requested to enter this identity when purchasing an e-book, in order
to secure your transaction. The PID is also used as your personal identifier
in your "My Mobipocket" personal virtual library on the Mobipocket.com
Web site.

Toolbar Icons

Display the Table of contents.

Back to previous page, other
explanation here.

Add a bookmark to the
current page. A little square appears at the top right corner of a page where
a bookmark has been added. Click on the square to display the label of the bookmark.
To display the list of stored bookmarks, goto the Bookmarks
popup menu .

Mobipocket Reader Menus

Books

Open

e-Book infos

Find

Dictionary

Go to

View

Tool bar

Columns

Font

Help

Content

About

Books

Open

Show you the Open dialog box, you can browse your disk and find your eBooks
and eNews.

e-Book Infos

This menu displays specific information about the current e-book, i.e. the
Author, Title, Date,... This is the Meta-Data information of the Open eBook
specification.

Find

The find function enables you to search throughout the text of the current
e-book, for a string of characters. Note that the string is either a whole word
or a sub-part of a word, but can't be made of several words.

Built-in Dictionary application

With the integrated dictionary application, you can query the definition or
translation of a word. In order to use a dictionary, you need to download the
corresponding file into your device.

View

Do not forget the magnify standard buttons at the left of the screen, they
allow you to change font size !

Tool bar

Show and hide the toolbar. When the toolbar is hidden, we call it 'full screen'.

Columns

Allow you to select the number of columns.

Font

Allow you to choose the font to use by default.

Help

Content

Show this help file :)

About box

Displays information about the Mobipocket Reader version and copyright. This
is also where you will find your Personal ID (PID)

Page Number Popup Menu or Go to

When you click on the page number field at the top right corner of the screen,
a popup menu appears with the following functions :

- Back : back to previous page

- Goto Page : go to any page of the e-book by entering a page number

- Goto Beginning : go to the very first page of the e-book

- Bookmarks : display the list of stored bookmarks for the current e-book.

In addition to the above functions, the popup menu may contain several items,
which are part of the Guide specified by the Open eBook standard, e.g. the Table
of Contents, the Biography of the author, the Foreword, etc...

Hyperlinks and the link back arrow

Hyperlinks are displayed as underlined text, and in blue color.

By clicking on a hyperlink, you will navigate to another position in the e-book.
Clicking on the Link Back arrow
brings you one step back to your previous position.

eBook Info

Title:

Mobipocket Reader Help

Creator:

Mobipocket.com

Date:

27/04/00