Table of Contents SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ..............5 APPEARANCE..................10 Front View Side View TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS .............12 GETTING STARTED ................13 Charging Battery Power Management Loading Files Gestures Working with On-Screen Keyboard Frontlight Connecting to the Internet...
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Inserting Micro SD Card MAIN MENU ..................24 Recent Events Library Book Store Notes Dictionary Music Applications Search Status Bar Task Management Installing Extensions READING BOOKS ................52 Gestures in Reading Mode Social networks & ReadRate Turning Pages...
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Contents Open Page Bookmarks Following Links Search Scaling Dictionary Notes Screen Orientation Text-to-Speech Closing a Book SETTINGS ....................70 Frontlight Personalize Network Date/Time Languages Accounts and Synchronization...
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Advanced Settings Saving Battery Device Info FIRMWARE UPDATE .................85 TROUBLESHOOTING ...............89 CUSTOMER SUPPORT ..............91 COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ..92...
Safety Precautions Before start working with the Device, please, read this section carefully. Following these instructions will help you ensure your safety and extend service life of the Device. Storage, Carriage and Usage Conditions Device operating temperature range is 0°С to +40°С, so don’t expose the Device to excessively high or low temperatures.
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Safety Srecautions • penetration of liquids or moisture • exposure to strong electromagnetic fields, electrostatic charges and artificial sources of UV electromagnetic radiation • excessive mechanical pressure on the screen, connec- tors and keys of the Device. Do not leave the Device for a long time in poorly ventilated envi- ronment, e.g.
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Safety Srecautions Maintenance Do not disassemble or modify the book reader. Do not use the Device with a damaged battery, charger (broken case, poor contact, broken feed cable) or SD card. If the battery is damaged (cracked case, leakage of electrolyte, off-shape etc.) it should be replaced by the authorized personnel.
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For detailed information about service centers in your region please visit the official website of PocketBook International: http://www.pocketbook-int.com. RF Safety The Device receives and transmits radio frequencies and may interfere with radio communications and other electronic equip- ment.
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Safety Srecautions Utilization Incorrect disposal of this Device may have adverse impacts on the environment and public health. To prevent such consequenc- es follow the device-specific disposal requirements. Recycling of these materials helps preserve natural resources. For more infor- mation regarding recycling issues please contact local municipal authorities, your domestic waste collection service, store where you purchased the Device, or the authorized service center.
Appearance FRONT VIEW 1. Home – return to Main menu 2. Backward – turn page backward 3. LED Indicator – displays Device powering it glows green, when battery is charged, it turns off. During the Device usage green light indicates power consuming (screen refresh, music play- back, Wi-Fi connection etc.) 4.
Appearance SIDE VIEW 6. 3.5 mm audio jack 7. Micro-USB port – connect the Device to a PC or a charger using USB-cable 8. Reset – restart the Device 9. MicroSD-card slot – to install external microSD/SDHC card (up to 32 GB) 10.
Getting Started In this chapter you will learn how to prepare the Device for work and will read about its main control features. CHARGING BAT TERY To extend battery lifetime, it’s recommended to charge the Device for the first 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).
Getting Started NOTE Indication can be disabled in Settings > Saving Power > LED indication. If the Device is on when you connect the cable to PC, a dialog window asking to select action – PC link Charge – will appear. POWER MANAGEMENT To turn on the Device, press and hold On/Off button until startup logo appears.
Getting Started Lock device after respectively, and set the idle time before locking keyboard or power off. In case if your Device ‘freezes’ (don’t 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.
Getting Started You will be prompted to select USB mode: PC Link Charge either. Select Link. Computer’s operating sys- tem will detect Device’s storage as a removable disk (if SD card installed – as two ones). Now you can copy files to the Device or SD card using Explorer or other file manager.
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Getting Started Touch & hold Opens context menu of an element (if available). Slide Turns pages of a book or a list; moves an image: slide your finger across the screen. Flick Scrolls lists: move your finger across the screen rapidly.
Getting Started WORKING WITH ON - SCREEN KEYBOARD On-screen keyboard is used when it’s 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 input language, press the current language button.
Getting Started 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 field. Touch it to see typed symbols. FRONTLIGHT To switch on/off the frontlight, press and hold the Menu button for one second.
Getting Started 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), the Device displays 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.
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Getting Started 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) field. 4. Select the security type in the corresponding list: •...
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Getting Started • DHCP — get IP address automatically (if DHCP server is configured) • 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 the Proxy configu- ration...
Getting Started INSERTING MICRO SD CARD The Device already has 4 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 figure, and slightly push until card will be fixed.
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- corresponding option was set). To return to the Main menu from any application, press key.
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Main Menu Main menu overview Recent Events is a list of recently Filtration of events opened and downloaded books Events of friends on ReadRate Last read book Last downloaded Collapse Applications panel Applications panel...
Main Menu 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 configure filtration by pressing on a sign in the tor right corner of the screen: Filtration...
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Main Menu Library Overview Exit Search Menu Turn Library pages...
Main Menu LIBRARY Library is e-books file manager. Library menu allows to filter, group, sort, change appearance of the section and perform search. 1 Filtration criteria • All Books – all books on selected storage are displayed • Now reading –...
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Main Menu • 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 icon • Book title and author name (if known) • Location icon (if file is located on memory card)
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Main Menu Detailed – in this mode there’s added thumbnails, in- formation about file 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.
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Main Menu ...and allows proceeding with next file 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 •...
Main Menu 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.
Main Menu MUSIC Music player for playing .mp3 media files. Application Progress bar Playlist Collapse Close menu Normal Repeat once Shuffle Next Previous Volume Play/Pause Press to switch Press to switch...
Main Menu In the Application menu you can add audio files 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 fol- lowing operations: view info about track, add to queue, or remove the file from the list.
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Main Menu Chess You can play versus your friend or the Device. If you are playing against the Device, you can select 10 difficulty levels. Calendar & Clock Opens current month calendar and clock. Navigation allows turning over a calendar. The button returns you to the current month.
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Main Menu 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 command. Edit the feed address using the on- screen keyboard.
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Main Menu 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 Sencil: 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...
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Main Menu Device. In addition, Scribble application is used for editing graphic notes. Sudoku Sopular Japanese puzzle. Sress 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.
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Main Menu web-page using zooming gestures (pinch or spread two fingers). 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.
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Main Menu 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 li- censed content download from Book Store portal (http:// www.bookland.com/) to your Device.
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Main Menu 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.
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Main Menu Sress 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 –...
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Main Menu 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 files from the store in advance and then download them on your Device in any time convenient for you.
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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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Main Menu not been activated, the Device will generate the connec- tion request). Automatic connection is chosen in SocketBook Sync settings, Wi-Fi will be activated automatically ev- ery half an hour for checking new links (if the De- vice is not powered off/not in sleeping mode). The list of downloads will be automatically loaded to the queue after successful setting connection.
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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 files, added to Dropbox from any computer or any device with installed...
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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.
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Main Menu How to synchronize Automatically: 1. Files, added to the directory ‘Application > PocketBook reader’ and to the sync folder on your Device, will be auto- matically synchronized when the internet connection is on. 2. All synchronized files will be downloaded to the sync folder in the Library (by default, ‘Dropbox PocketBook’...
In reading mode status bar displays current page and total page count. To switch to a system status bar, press the icon Touch to open Date & time Frontlight task list PocketBook Wi-Fi is connected Battery charge Status Touch to view info...
Main Menu TASK MANAGEMENT Device software supports multitasking, and you can quick- ly 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:...
Main Menu 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 SocketBook website in Support sec-...
Reading Books In this chapter you will learn how to read e-books and configure reader software for the most comfortable read- ing. The Device supports next book formats: (in- PDF, EPUB cluding Adobe -protected); FB2, FB2.ZIP, DOC, DOCX, TXT, DjVU, RTF, HTML, HTM, CHM, TCR, PRC (MOBY) To open a book, touch its title Last opened Library...
Reading Books SOCIAL NETWORKS & READRATE Now you will be able to take advantages of social net- works on your Socketbook: share quotations from books, add comments, tell what you are reading or have read, like or don’t like. ReadRate also allows you watching the friends’...
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Reading Books Now reading, Have read, Like, Unlike 1. Touch one of the options (Now reading, Have read, Like or Unlike). 2. Enter data (E-mail and password) of one of your accounts: in social networks or in the market Book Store. 3.
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Reading Books 4. Select social networks, where you want to send news: Facebook, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, Twitter – icons of chosen networks will become hefted. 5. If the chosen social network wasn’t linked to the ReadRate profile, you will be proposed to link them. 6.
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Reading Books 3. After that the scenario Now reading, Have read, Like, Unlike is performed, beginning from 2 item. 4. All actions of your friends on ReadRate are dis- played in Recent events on your Device: 5. You can Delete Open event.
Reading Books To delete your social networks accounts information for ReadRate, go to Settings > Accounts and Synchroniza- tion > ReadRate > Remove ReadRate authorization on your SocketBook. If you want turn off temporarily the ReadRate function- ality, set Settings > Accounts and Synchronization > ReadRate >...
Reading Books Content section contains three insets: • Sections (book’s chapters names); • Bookmarks (made during reading); • Notes (graphic or text). If there’s no content, bookmarks or notes, the corresponding inset is blank. If table of contents has more then one level, higher level entry will be marked with ‘+’...
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Reading Books • By moving the progress bar slider in the reading menu. < and > buttons are intended for more precise navi- gation – one page backward/forward, respectively. • By touching the slider, which opens a dialog win- dow where you are able to enter the page number you want to open.
Reading Books BOOKMARKS To create a bookmark, touch right top corner of the screen. A dog ear mark will appear. To delete a bookmark, touch this mark again and confirm deletion. Also you can add/remove bookmarks by selecting the cor- responding reading menu item.
Reading Books SEARCH To search in book text touch the icon of the reading menu. After entering a query from on-screen keyboard, re- sults found will be highlighted. To move between search results, touch on arrow buttons at the right bottom corner of the screen.
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Reading Books margins width, hyphenations (on/off) encoding, refresh mode (Best Quality High Speed). PDF & DjVu You can change only the whole page scale only (except Reflow mode for Pinch two fingers together to zoom out or spread them apart to zoom in or slide a finger upwards the right side of screen to zoom in or downwards –...
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Reading Books • Reflow – in this mode text is formatted to display completely on the screen. Reflow mode is supported for SDF books only. Some tables and pictures cannot be dis- played in the Reflow mode; • Fit width –...
Reading Books DICTIONARY Touch and hold a word to open a panel allowing you to search for translation using one of installed dictionaries or find a word in Google. Also after selecting Dictionary item, a window with dictionary entry of a selected word appears.
Reading Books NOTES Notes allows you to save favorite book fragments and make handwritten records directly in the text. All the notes will be displayed in book’s table of contents. To en- ter notes mode, select Note reading menu section. After you will enter Notes, a tooltip window will appear.
Reading Books Eraser – clears markers and pencils. Slide the finger across the area with note to erase it. Screenshot – saves selected text fragment as a picture. Table of Contents – opens the book’s Table of Contents. Help – opens a window with instructions on using the tools.
Reading Books To start , open reading menu and select Voice. con- trol panel will appear: Select voice package Exit Slay/Sause Volume Srogress bar indicates a fragment read currently, pages are turned automatically as you listen. Initially there are 3 packages are installed on the Device.
Settings In this chapter you will learn how configure the interface and software features of the Device for the most comfortable usage. Select Settings Main menu section to configure the Device. All changes will be applied after exiting the section. If you will encounter any problems with new settings, you will be able to start the Device in safe mode with factory defaults.
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Settings Boot Logo – image displayed during the Device starts. Logos are stored in system/logo internal storage folder, so you can copy an image you’d like to be displayed during startup. ATTENTION! System folder is hidden by default. Slease, change its parameters on your computer to make it visible.
Settings Mapping. In this section you can remap hardware keys. To change key action, select it from the list and select action from the list. NETWORK In this section you can set parameters needed for network connection. Network access — on or off. After network access activation, the following settings appear: •...
Settings DATE/TIME In this section you will be able to set date, time, time zone and clock format. You can also Synchronize Time or set Auto Time Sync to use the network time/date. LANGUAGES Language Select the Device’s interface language. Keyboard Layouts Under this section you can add up to 3 keyboard layouts.
Dictionary application; ACCOUNTS AND SYNCHRONIZATION PocketBook Sync — There are the following settings for the SocketBook Sync service: • PocketBook Sync Status: or off. The service is turned on automatically at the authorization.
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Settings • Downloading via Wi-Fi: On demand (you need to process the list before download) or Automatically (all new files are downloaded automatically). • Download folder: location of files. The Downloads folder is set by default. You can choose another folder or create a new one in the internal Device storage or on the external SD-card.
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• Sync Folder: location of synced files. You can also move files to Sync folder, if you want to sync them with Pocketbook reader directory. The Dropbox PocketBook fold- er is set by default. You can choose another folder or cre- ate a new one in the internal Device storage or on the external SD-card.
Settings • ReadRate Status • ReadRate authorization Adobe DRM To authorize, input your Login (e-mail address) and Pass- word. When you are authorized, your login and Remove Adobe DRM Authorization item are displayed. After remov- ing all protected DRM documents will be unavailable. ADVANCED SET TINGS User Profiles Here you can configure up to 6 user profiles (5 can be...
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Settings and to enter the name from on-screen keyboard. After this current above-mentioned parameters will be stored at this profile. To activate profile open the one you need. In profile context menu you can change avatar, duplicate profile to a new one (to the SD card or internal storage either), rename or delete profile.
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Settings Backup & Recovery • Factory Reset – the Device state will be reset to factory default settings, erasing user settings. Other data (e.g. books, photos) won’t be lost; • Backup Configuration to SD – this action will cre- ate a backup folder on an external microSD-card and will save there system settings.
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Settings • Automatically – database would be update after each Library opening and copying/removal of books (including microSD card change). • Optimise Database – remove old database entries. To run optimization set the parameter to Once and exit Settings. The parameter will be set to after optimization.
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Settings Privacy Protect Configurations by Password — in this section you can protect your setting by password. Select Set Password section and type the password from on-screen keyboard. Now each time you try to enter Settings section, you will be asked to enter the password. You can remove or change password by selecting the corresponding item.
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Settings Complete Page Refresh select the amount of page turned before the screen will be updated completely. Always item provides the best quality, but consumes the most power. Less frequency may cause some artifacts from previous pages on a screen. Large File Warning If this setting is on, the Device will show a notification when you try to open file larger than 25 MB.
Settings Demo mode switching demo mode for the Device. To activate demon- stration mode check in the Demo mode item. SAVING BATTERY Here you can set parameters, which help to save battery charge: • Battery Percentage, • LED Indication – you may disable LED indication by selecting in this section.
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Settings Memory (operative memory, total and available internal memory and microSD card), Software • Firmware Version, • Software Update – the Device will search for updates in the following order: microSD card (if installed), internal storage and Internet; • Auto Update –...
Firmware Update Official firmware updates for Device are published on of- ficial PocketBook website (www.pocketbook-int.com). In- stallation of official firmware updates is recommended, because they contain fixes and additions improving the efficiency of the Device. Official firmware update does not influence the warranty conditions. Warranty does not cover software installed from other sources except Sock- etBook official website.
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Also you can set automatic updates check (Settings > About Device > Software > Auto Update). In this case, the Device will use Wi-Fi connection only. Manual Update 1. Open site www.pocketbook-int.com. Select your country...
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Firmware Update 2. Click the Support button on top menu. Select hardware model of your Device 3. Download the Firmware to your PC 4. Unpack the content of the archive, file SWUP- DATE.BIN and copy it to the root folder of MicroSD-Card or internal Device storage 5.
Repeat corrupted or Image no space available on the download from www. is empty the microSD card. pocketbook-int.com. If this error repeats, use other card. Try to use another File read error MicroSD card error MicroSD card Error.
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Troubleshooting Malfunction Possible Reason Solution Device does not Battery is low Charge the battery turn on or turns on but only the logo is loaded A book does not The book is If the book was downloaded open - the message damaged from the online store try to Book is probably...
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Troubleshooting Malfunction Possible Reason Solution No response when Sometimes Close the frozen applica- you press any key (e.g., when tion by pressing key for downloading 1–2 sec. If this doesn’t help, damaged or too press Reset on the rear large books) panel to reload your device.
Customer Support For detailed information about service centers in your country please use contacts below: 800-701-307 Česko 0-800-187-30-03 Deutschland 0805-080277 France 0-0-800-141-0112 Polska Slovensko 0-800-606-676 1-877-910-1520 USA/Canada 8-800-100-6990 Россия 0-800-304-800 Україна 8-800-333-35-13 Казахстан Беларусь 8-820-0011-02-62 995-706-777-360 საქართველო www.pocketbook-int.com/support/ help@pocketbook-int.com...
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International Standards Model name SocketBook 623 Product name SocketBook Touch Lux Europe The EUT should be supplied by USB port from complied Limited Sower Source of personal computer or notebook. The EUT should be supplfied by Adapter from complied Limited Sower Source.
Compliance with International Standards In all Metropolitan departments, wireless LAN frequencies can be used under the following conditions, either for public or private use: • Indoor use: maximum power (EIRP*) of 100 mW for the entire 2400-2483.5 MHz frequency band • Outdoor use: maximum power (EIRP*) of 100 mW for the 2400-2454 MHz band and with maximum power (EIRP*) of 10 mW for the 2454-2483 MHz band.
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Compliance with International Standards Your device is a radio transmitter and receiver. It is designed not to exceed the limits for exposure to radio waves recommended by international guidelines. These guidelines were developed by the independent scientific organization ICNIRP and include safety margins designed to assure the protection of all persons, regardless of age and health.
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Compliance with International Standards The highest SAR value under the ICNIRP EU 10g SAR Limit Highest 10g SAR Value 2 W/kg 2.217 W/kg This equipment compflies with the European Council Recom- mendation of 12 July 1999 on the Limitation of Exposure of the General Public to Electromagnetic Fields [1999/519/EC].
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