PocketBook 360 Plus manual

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    User Manual 3 6 0° Pl us[...]

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    T able of C ontents SAFET Y PREC AUTIONS ...................................... 4 APPEAR ANCE ........................................................ 9 TECHNIC AL СHARA C TERISTICS .................... 12 GETTING ST AR TED ........................................... 13 P rotective C over Usage 13 Charging Battery 14 P ower Management 15 L oading [...]

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    T able of Cont ents 2 MAIN MENU ......................................................... 25 Books 25 News 28 Favorites 30 Photo 30 Dictionary 31 Applications 32 Notes 37 Calendar 38 Status Bar 38 Express Menu 39 READING BOOKS ............................................... 40 T urning P ages 41 Following R eferences 41 Making Notes 42 Changing Fon[...]

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    T able of Cont ents 3 C ONFIGUR A TION ............................................... 49 FIRMW ARE UPD A TE .......................................... 57 TR OUBLESHOO TING ........................................ 61 CUST OMER SUPPOR T ....................................... 64 CER TIFIC A TION INFORMA TION .................... 65[...]

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    Safet y P recautions Before start working with the Devic e, please, read this section carefully . Following these instructions will help you ensure y our safety and extend servic e life of the Devic e. Storage, Carriage and Usage C onditions Devic e operating temperature range is 0°С to 40°С, so don’t expose the De vice to ex cessively high o[...]

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    Safety Precautions 5 • exposure to liquids or damp (do not use the De - vice in the rain, in the street at higher humidity , near bodies of water et c.) • penetration of liquids or moisture • exposure t o strong electromagnetic elds, elec - trostatic charges and articial sources of UV electromag - netic radiation • ex cessive mechanic[...]

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    Safety Precautions 6 Maintenance Do not disassemble or modify the book reader . Do not use the Devic e with a damaged battery , charger (broken case, poor c ontact, broken feed cable) or SD card. If the battery is damaged (crack ed case, leakage of electrolyte, off-shape etc.) it should be replac ed by the authorized personnel. Usage of home-made o[...]

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    Safety Precautions 7 By the end of product guarante e term, please contact the nearest authorized servic e facility for examination on the subject of se curity is maintained. For detailed information about servic e cent ers in your region please visit the ofcial w ebsite of P ocketBook In - ternational: www .pocketbook -int.com. RF Safety The De[...]

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    Safety Precautions 8 Utilization Incorre ct disposal of this De vice may have adverse im - pacts on the environment and public health. T o prev ent such consequenc es follow the devic e-specic disposal requirements. Rec ycling of these materials helps pre - serve natural resourc es. For more inf ormation regarding recy cling issues please contac[...]

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    Appearance 1 . On/Off (power butt on) – switch the De vic e On/Off (long pressure) 2 . Up 3 . Down 4 . Le ft 5 . Right navigation ke ys[...]

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    Appearance 10 6 . ОК – shor t press opens sele cted element; long press – opens cont ext menu (if available) 7. T urning pages buttons ( Forward/Back - ward ) – turn pages o ver in the reading mode to the next/pre vious page. The long press of the lower ( Backward ) button closes a book or an application 8 . LED indicator – green light ?[...]

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    Appearance 11 13. R eset button is located under the bat - tery cov er . The Devic e restar ts after pressing this button. NO TE The G-sensor (acceleromet er) is built in the De - vice, allowing automatically det ermine the position of the devic e and rotate display text acc ordingly . Y ou may use the Devic e in any of four display positions. The [...]

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    T echnical Сharacteristics Display 5” E Ink® Vizplex 600×800, 200 dpi, B&W CPU 800 MHz RAM 128 MB Storage Flash-memory 2 GB (up t o 1.5 GB available for user) Operating system Linux® Communications USB 2.0 Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) Card slot MicroSD/SDHC Acc elerometer Ye s Book formats PDF, EPUB, TX T , FB2, FB2.zip , R TF, HTML, PR C (mobi),[...]

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    Getting Star ted In this chapter y ou will learn how to prepare the Devic e to work and about its main control f eatures. PR O TECTIVE C O VER USA GE T o open the protectiv e co ver , hold the De vice with both hands and slightly push the projections on the top and bottom edges o f the co ver . T o put on the protectiv e co ver , hold the De vic e [...]

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    Getting Started 1 4 T o take off the prot ectiv e co ver , slightly push on one of the projections. CHAR GING BA TTER Y T o ext end battery lifetime, it’ s rec ommended to charge the Device for the rst time from 8 to 12 hours in the off state. Y ou can charge the battery from PC using USB-cable or from the power line using a charger (optional)[...]

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    Getting Started 15 T o charge the battery for the rst time, do the following: • C onnect the De vice to a c omputer or charger with USB-cable. Indicator will star t glow ing red • When the battery is fully charged, indica - tor turns solid green. Now you can disconnect the Devic e and turn it on for the rst use. If the Devic e is on when [...]

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    Getting Started 16 book, depending on settings ( Settings > At startup, open ). T o turn off the De vic e, press On/Off button c ontin - uously until the Devic e goes off. If you will press power butt on shortly , the ke ypad of the Devic e will be locked and the ke y sign will appear in a right top c orner of the screen. T o unlock the ke ypad,[...]

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    Getting Started 17 and pull it with the other hand, as shown on a gure. T ake off the co ver and press the re cessed R eset ke y with some thin item, e.g. a straightened paper clip . C AUTION ! Don’t use sharp it ems, such as ne edles, to press R eset button to avoid De vice case damage! Don’t use this feature frequently , because it affects[...]

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    Getting Started 18 L OADING FILES C onnect the Devic e to the PC using micro-USB cable. NO TE The Device should be kept on while transf erring les. Y ou will be prompt ed to select USB mode: PC Link or Charge either . Select P C Link . Operating system of c omputer will dete ct Device ’ s storage as remov - able disk (if SD card installed – [...]

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    Getting Started 19 NA VIGA TION Use navigation buttons Up , Down , Le f t , Right t o se - lect required it em (e.g. book or menu item). A TTENTION! If you change screen orientation, naviga - tion and page turning keys mapping will be also changed acc ordingly to the side y ou’ve changed orientation to. P ress OK button shortly to open sele cted.[...]

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    Getting Started 20 Also you can c ongure ke y mapping to your own in C onguration > Key mapping se ction. W ORKING WITH ON - SCREEN KEYBOARD The on-screen ke yboard appears when it is nec - essary to ent er some te xt info , for e xample, Wi-Fi password, search query or websit e address. T o navigate through the ke yboard use the naviga - [...]

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    Getting Started 21 1 . Change te xt case 2 . Erase last entered symbol 3 . Change input language. T o add the lan - guage (up to 3 layouts) to the onscreen k eyboard layout go to C onguration > Keyboard .[...]

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    Getting Started 22 C ONNEC TING T O INTERNET The Devic e can connect to Int erntet using Wi-Fi networks. If you will open an application, which requires Internet ac cess (e.g. Browser , Pock etNews ) the Devic e will open a list of available Wi-Fi c on - nections. If the network you select is prot ected, you will be suggested t o enter network key [...]

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    Getting Started 23 name will turn to the same as Network name (SSID) . If y ou’d like t o change c onnection (for example, Home or Ofc e) press OK and enter c onnection name as you’d lik e it to be displayed on the Devic e NO TE Connection name eld species only the display name of the conne ction. For correct c ommunication Net- work n[...]

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    Getting Started 2 4 • WP A/WP A2 PSK – you will need t o enter network key (up to 64 symbols) 5 . Select the idle time before disc onnection in the corresponding se ction 6 . By default Network settings set to DHCP (dened by network). If it’ s needed to congure network settings manually , go Network settings , change IP address c ong[...]

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    Main Menu In this chapter y ou will learn about main interface elements and their functionality . Main menu c on - sists of list of tw o last opened books and list of applications and menus described below . BOOKS Books is the le manager for books, stored in the Devic e’ s memory and e xternal microSD-card. In a front of a le or folder are [...]

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    M ain M enu 26 • Open/Open with – Open with appears, when a book can be opened with an alternative reader application (e.g. book in PDF format can be opened with AdobeViewer and pdfvie wer) • Information – option for les. File name, format, title, size, and creation date are displayed • Mark as read/unread – adds the corre - sponding[...]

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    M ain M enu 27 thumbnails or detailed (thumbnail and brief le/ folder info ). Names can be displayed as le names or book titles. Filt er is c ongured depending on le location: all, internal memory or SD-card • Sort – sor ting is adjust ed by title, author , series or creation time • Find book – opens on-screen ke yboard, where y[...]

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    M ain M enu 28 NEWS Opens P ocketNews – application for adding and reading RSS feeds. T o add RSS news fe eds, open RSS setup. Select the Add RSS feed option. Enter the feed address using the on-screen ke yboard. T o delete the fe ed, select it, open the cont e xt menu (by continuous OK button press) and select Delete command. T o edit the feed, [...]

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    M ain M enu 29 T o update fe ed, select Update in the application menu. Updated content is added t o the le with .hrss extension, and the le will be acc essible for reading after updating. The ne ws downloading status is displayed while updating. Af ter the up - date le is available for reading o ff-line using the browser . T o read latest[...]

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    M ain M enu 30 FA V ORITES This section displays the books, added to favorites in Books section. T o add book to Fav orites , select the corresponding book’ s conte xt menu option in Books section. T o remove a book from the list of favorite books, select the book, open the c onte xt menu (press and hold the OK button) and select the Delete optio[...]

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    M ain M enu 31 DIC TIONAR Y After your star t this application, the on-screen key - board will appear . T ype the word y ou’d like to nd, and application will nd its entry in the diction - ary . T o change dictionaries, press Forward button, select the dictionary you need from the list and press OK . After you close the on-screen ke yboard [...]

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    M ain M enu 32 APPLIC A TIONS This section c ontains games and additional sof t - ware. T o exit an application, press Backward k ey continuously . Browser Y ou can navigate by using the following buttons: • Up and Down buttons t o switch betwe en active elements on the page (references, text elds, etc.); continuous Up key press activates an a[...]

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    M ain M enu 33 • P age turning buttons ( Backward/Forward ) – to scroll the content o f the window v ertically • OK button • shor t press – to follow links and acti - vate te xt box es • long press – to display a conte xt menu. The browser supports le downloads from the Internet. Downloaded les are saved to the root folder of th[...]

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    M ain M enu 3 4 Chess Y ou can play versus your friend or the De vice. If you are playing against the De vic e, you can se - lect 10 difculty lev els. Use the navigation keys to mov e cursor ov er the gaming board and OK to pick and put a piec e. Clock T urns on the full-screen mode clock. Klondike Classic solitaire. P ocketNews See the News sec[...]

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    M ain M enu 35 Sudoku P opular Japanese puzzle. Aft er pressing OK on an empty eld, selection window will appear . Y ou can select a digit y ou think should stand in the cell or set labels – digits, you suggest may stand in the cell. Obreey Sync A TTENTION! For correct work of Obreey Sync time and date on the Devic e should be adjusted properl[...]

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    M ain M enu 36 3 . T o obtain your activation c ode, link your Devic e with your ac count b y entering the serial number of the De vice on the w ebsite. 4 . T o synchronize the De vice with your ac - count, enter the activation code rec eived on the Obree y Store website by selecting the Settings > R egistration menu option. How to download c on[...]

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    M ain M enu 37 5 . In the Obree y Sync widget, press the Up- date button (if Wi-Fi c onnection has not been acti - vated, the Device will either do this aut omatically or generate a c onnection request, depending on Obree y Sync settings). A list of titles prepared for download to the De vice will be displayed. If con - tent for do wnload is unavai[...]

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    M ain M enu 38 C ALENDAR Opens current year calendar . Y ou can change y ear using Left/Right or Backward/Forward keys. T o exit C alendar , press OK . ST A TUS BAR Status bar is located at the bottom o f the screen and displays next servic e information: • Date and time • Battery charge • – Wi-Fi is activ e. In reading mode date changes to[...]

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    M ain M enu 39 NO TE In sleep mode the clock is remov ed from the status bar to save pow er for screen updat e. EXPRESS MENU By default Express menu opening is not set , but you can set it in Settings > K ey mapping se ction. Using Express menu you can open one of the re - cently opened books and acc ess quickly some c on - trol features: • ?[...]

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    R eading Books In this chapter y ou will learn how to read e-books and congure reader software for the most com - fortable reading. The Devic e suppor ts next book formats: FB2, FB2. zip, T XT , PDF, R TF, HTML, PRC, CHM, DJVU, DOC, DOC X, EPUB, T CR. T o open a book, select it in L ast opened or Books section and press OK . If you opened a book[...]

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    R eading Books 4 1 TURNING P AGES Use Backward/Forward or Left/Right ke ys to turn pages (while reading books in PDF or DjVU format Up/Down keys also turn pages). Continuous Left/ Right ke ys press turns 10 pages at once. FOLL OWING REFERENCES If a page contains cross-ref erences or footnotes, you can enter links mode on c ontinuous Up k ey press ([...]

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    R eading Books 4 2 MAKING NOTES Y ou can enter notes mode by pressing Down but - ton c ontinuously or by pressing the c orresponding menu option. On the top of the display separate area will appear . Use the buttons Up , Down to choose the place where your not e will begin and press OK t o set up the top margin of the note. Use navigation buttons t[...]

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    R eading Books 4 3 CHANGING FONT SIZE In text format books (eP ub, FB2 etc. , ex cluding PDF and DjV u) you can change font siz e with Up/ Down ke ys. 5 font siz e presets are available. When you will reach the largest/smallest one, text will change to the smallest/largest. READER MENU T o acc ess reader application menu press OK button. C ontents [...]

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    R eading Books 44 table, continuous press o f OK button e xpands/col - lapses subsection branch. Y ou can tune appearance of c ontents in conte xt menu. There you can rename or edit not e, expand or collapse all subse ctions branches and set up items to display in contents (under the Settings section): contents, bookmarks, and notes. Please, note t[...]

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    R eading Books 4 5 Bookmarks Adds current page to bookmarks. Aft er adding a page to bookmarks in a right top c orner a dog ear mark will appear . All the bookmarks will be displayed in c ontents. T o delete bookmark, select the correspondent menu item again. NO TE Bookmarks are not available for DjV u books Open P age Opens dialog window , where y[...]

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    R eading Books 4 6 width, or encoding (f or TX T and HTML books). FB2 books has two refresh modes: Best Quality or High Speed (default). Z oom PDF and DjV u books has Zoom menu it em instead of Settings . Select zooming mode using L eft/Right ke ys and select value using Up/Down ke ys. Next zooming modes are available: • Preview – 4 or 9 pages [...]

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    R eading Books 4 7 size with Up and Down k eys. Some images and ta - bles may not display in this mode. R eow mode is suppor t ed for PDF books only • Te x t – select left to right (by default) or right to left ( e.g. for Arabic or Hebrew texts). Dictionary Single-word translation. By default cursor high - lights the word to translat e and d[...]

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    R eading Books 4 8 R otate Fixes the scre en orientation: select the suitable one with navigation ke ys. CL OSING A BOOK T o close a book, select the c orresponding menu item or press Backward button c ontinuously .[...]

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    C onguration In this chapter you will learn ho w congure the interfac e and sof tware features of the De vice for the most comf ortable usage. Select Settings Main menu section to congure the Devic e. All changes will be applied after e xiting the section. If you will enc ounter any problems with new set - tings, you will be able t o star [...]

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    Con  guration 50 NO TE During the registration only serial number of the Devic e is sent. R egistration is related to the particular Devic e only and is not related to Obre ey Store account. About devic e The following inf ormation about Devic e will be displayed: model, serial number , sof tware v ersion, RAM size, E-ink paramet ers, Wi-Fi MAC [...]

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    Con  guration 51 User P roles Here you can congure up to 6 user proles (5 can be stored on the internal st orage and 1 – on mi - croSD card). Each prole st ores individual books’ status, last opened books, bookmarks, notes, fa - vorites and pre congured netw ork conne ctions. T o add new prole, open the corresponding item. [...]

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    Con  guration 52 Appearance Here you can sele ct the appearanc e parameters: • Theme • Interfac e font . If y ou’d like to use your o wn font, copy its les to the system/fonts int ernal stor - age folder • Screen orientation – select the most suit - able for y ou or press auto for ac celrometer-based NO TE The navigation key map may[...]

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    Con  guration 53 complet ely . Always provides the best quality , but consumes the most po wer . L ess frequency may cause some ar tifacts from pre vious pages on a screen • W arn if the le is too large – if this setting is on, the Devic e will show a notication when you try to open le larger than 20 MB • LED indic ation – you m[...]

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    Con  guration 5 4 disabled at all. Also y ou can set idle time before locking ke yboard and automatic power off . Open at Star tup Here you can set either open last opened book or main menu. C onnectivit y In this section y ou can set parameters ne eded for network and USB connections. • Devic e name – set the Devic e name for other network [...]

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    Con  guration 55 R ead more about network c onnections in C onnect- ing to Internet section. Maintenance This section allows you to c ongure system parameters. • Update software – the Device will search for updates in the f ollowing order: internal st or - age, microSD card (if installed) and Internet. • R emoving packages – remove di[...]

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    Con  guration 56 C AUTION ! If you need to erase all data on the Devic e, use this feature only , don’t try to format the Devic e inter - nal memory via PC. • Format SD-c ard – this action will erase all data on ext ernal microSD-card • Backup conguration to SD – this action will create a backup folder on an e xternal mi - croSD-car[...]

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    Firmware Update W ARNING ! Firmware Update is a responsible operation, during which management software o f the Devic e will be changed. In case o f improper ex ecution control program may be damaged and will require treatment in the service center . Please perform the upgrade procedure in ac cord - ance with the instructions below . There are two [...]

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    Firmware U pdate 58 If default Internet c onnection is not set, the De - vice will ask to conne ct to one o f available wire - less networks. Also you can set period o f automatic updates che ck ( Settings > Maintenanc e > Update interval ). In this case, the Devic e will use Wi-Fi conne ction only . Manual Update 1 . Open site www .pocketboo[...]

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    Firmware U pdate 59 7. During boot press and hold both OK and Forward buttons simultaneously until the mes - sage Firmware update… is displayed on the screen 8 . Follow the on-screen instructions 9 . W ait for the message on the screen: Please c onnect power c able , and then connect USB cable to the De vice W ait until you Press c entral Key …[...]

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    Firmware U pdate 60 T roubleshooting Error Message R eason Corre ction Method No upgrade image found File SWUPDA TE.BIN cannot be found on the microSD card. Make sure the le is in the root folder of the card. T ry to format y our Micro SD card (make a backup copies of all its content prior t o formatting) and cop y the le to the root of the e[...]

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    T roubleshooting Malfunciton Possible R eason Solution Devic e does not turn on or turns on but only the logo is loaded Battery is low Charge the battery A book does not open - the message Book is probably damaged or protected appears, or nothing happens at all The book is damaged If the book was downloaded from the online store try to re-load it a[...]

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    T roubleshooting 62 Malfunciton Possible R eason Solution Book opens but various symbols, question marks etc. are displayed instead of letters Incorrect enc oding Switch to reading mode, select Settings and change encoding No response when you press any key Sometimes (e.g. , when downloading damaged or too large books) the Devic e may fre eze Close[...]

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    T roubleshooting 63 Malfunciton Possible R eason Solution Bookmarks, settings and current position in le cannot be saved File system damaged Conne ct the devic e to a PC and check disks. T o proceed, open My Computer , right-click on the selected disk and select Properties >Service > Check Disk Internal memory is full Delete books, images [...]

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    Customer Support For detailed information about servic e cent ers in your c ountry please use contacts below: T elephone Deutschland 0-800-183-39-70 USA 1-877 -326-01-96 Рос сийская Федерация 8-800-700-00-34 У країна 0-800-304-800 Қазақ стан 8-800-333-35-13 Белар усь 8-820-0011-02-62 ww w .pocketbook-int.c[...]

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    C er tication information Model name: P ocketBook 512 Brand name: P ocketBook 360 Plus Europe – EU Declaration of C onformity This devic e complies with the essential require - ments of the R&T TE Directive 1999/5/EC. The fol - lowing test methods hav e been applied in order to prove presumption o f c onformity with the essen - tial requir[...]

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    Certi  cation information 66 EU member states and EFT A countries, ex cept in France and Italy where restrictive use applies. In Italy the end-user should apply for a lic ense at the national spectrum authorities in order to obtain authorization to use the de vice for setting up outdoor radio links and/or for supplying pub - lic ac cess to t ele[...]