Cybook Odyssey User's Manual Touch | Wi-Fi | E Ink® Pearl screen Copyright © 2011 Bookeen. All rights reserved.
Cybook Odyssey User's Manual Information in this document is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind and is subject to change without notice. Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Bookeen is strictly forbidden. All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Version 1 © 2011 Bookeen.
1. Introduction 1.1 Welcome Congratulations on purchasing a Cybook Odyssey, the electronic book (eBook) reader based on E Ink® technology. Cybook Odyssey allows you to keep all your digital books close at hand and read them anywhere in a wide range of lighting conditions, including direct sunlight. The Cybook Odyssey screen possesses a paper-like high contrast appearance. It definitively gives you the experience of reading from paper. 1.
2. Getting Started 2.1 In the Box Once you receive your Cybook Odyssey, check the content of your package. You will find in the box: > Default components: Cybook Odyssey Quick Start Guide USB Cable 2.2 About your Cybook Odyssey The illustrations hereafter introduce you to the various buttons, connectors, ports and physical features of your Cybook Odyssey. Front view [1] E Ink® touch screen: Touch, multi-touch, scroll, pan, swipe, pinch, rotate, flip... Your screen obeys at the touch of a finger.
[4] Page forward button: This button turns one page forward. If you hold down Page forward button, pages are browsed in accelerated mode. Back view [5] Activaty LED: When the device is operating, light is blue. [6] Charge LED: When charging battery through USB, light is orange. When charged, light is green. Caution: Label on the back indicates Serial and Model Numbers. Keep in mind that serial numbers may be requested by Bookeen in case of interaction with support Service.
To keep your Cybook Odyssey in good condition and working properly, follow these Guidelines. General Guidelines Keep your Cybook Odyssey away from excessive moisture and extreme temperatures. Do not expose your Cybook Odyssey to liquids or precipitation. Avoid exposing your Cybook Odyssey to direct sunlight or strong ultraviolet light for extended periods of time. Operating your Cybook outside supported temperature may alter usability.
switching on and off the Cybook Odyssey. Connecting to power and charging the battery The Cybook Odyssey has an internal rechargeable Li-Polymer battery. It allows a large battery lifetime (around 25,000 continuous pages turned). When the battery is empty the status LED flashes when starting the device. It can happen that there is not enough battery to let the LED flash. Before the first use, you must charge completly the battery.
will switch on in less than one second and come back to the same position as you left it. The left indicator emits a green and orange light at the same time as switching on the Cybook Odyssey while charging. The LED indicator stops emitting a green light after one second of inactivity. Note: When you unbox your Cybook Odyssey, your device should be in "Full Off" mode. Follow the procedure to switch on your product (e.g. slide the power button and hold it for at least two seconds).
3. Basic Skills This chapter familiarizes you with the basic operations of your Cybook Odyssey such as discovering the E Ink® screen, using the touchscreen, using the buttons, understanding contextual menu and connection principles. 3.1 The E Ink® Pearl Screen The Cybook shows an outstanding black and white screen, utilizing a breakthrough technology: the E Ink® Pearl display. The screen acts like a paper page made of tiny ink particles which can migrate and modify the layout of your screen in a second.
Swiping Right to Left: Used to turn pages forward in the library, in a book or a document, to pan to the right inside zoomed PDF or Images, to scroll forward a menu. Swiping Left to Right: Used to turn pages backward in the library, in a book or a document, to pan to the left inside zoomed PDF or Images, to scroll backward a menu. Swiping Up Down: Used to scroll down menus, to pan down images or PDF files.
Zoom out: Pinch gesture with two fingers is used to zoom out a document or an image, to decrease font size or increase the number of books per page in the library view. 3.3 Main menu button The Main menu button is used to get back to the Cybook Odyssey's main menu any time you need it. 3.4 High Speed Ink System (HSIS) Thanks to the HSIS: Enjoy real-time scrolling: Implemented to the contextual menus and to the home page, tabs and menus react immediately as you touch them.
you will see! 3.5 The Contextual Menu While using your device, you can always pop-up a window containing a multichoice contextual menu. This menu will offer different choices depending on your current situation and your current activity. It allows you to access different features without leaving your current context: increasing font size while reading a book, change font, sorting your documents by title while browsing your library, zooming in a picture while viewing an image, etc.
the top right corner of the contextual menu. 3.6 The Virtual Keyboard While using your device, you will need to use a keyboard to fill text areas (login, passwords, search, URL, Notes). The Cybook Odyssey virtual Keyboad appears automatically when needed in the bottom of the screen. On top of the keyboard layout there is a one line text field in which the typed text appears. This keyboard is very similar to a physical keyboard. Just tap on each key to type your text.
4. Starting 4.1 Booting Just after sliding the power button, Cybook Odyssey boots. The screen will display a background static image that turns into an animation. This sequence should last around 20 seconds. An image appears on the screen for at least 2 seconds. This last waiting period depends mainly on the number of documents present in memory and can last several seconds. 4.2 Choose your language When your Cybook switches on for the first time, it displays a language menu.
The Home page shows 4 different zones. Each zone helps you to find rapidly data you need. Currently Reading Currently Reading displays the last 5 books you were reading. Tapping one of the 5 books of Currently Reading will automatically opens it on the last page you were reading. You just have to slide with your finger from right to left in order to display the second book. Library Library displays the last books or documents you have downloaded and then the last books or documents you were reading.
language interface. Slide Show: Open a new menu which offers the possibility to start a slideshow (switch from file to file every 5, 10, 30 seconds or 1, 5, 10, 30 minutes or 1 hour). Auto Power Off: Open a new menu which offers the possibility to activate the "Auto Power Off" feature. The device switches off by itself after 5, 10, 15, 30, 45 minutes or 1 hour. Accelerometer: Enable, disable the accelerometer.
5. The Library The Cybook Odyssey can contain a lot of digital items (Books, Documents, Images). You must first select your digital item from the list present in your device. This list is displayed in the Library page. 5.1 Browsing your library and selecting an item To browse your content, you swipe the screen to switch from page to page. To open a document or a folder, you just need to tap on it once. Some digital document like heavy PDF or ePub files can take several seconds to open.
5.3 The Library Contextual Menu While browsing your library pages, you just need to tap the left bottom corner of the screen or press the main menu button and select "menu" to pop-up the contextual menu. Different choices will then be available: 1 column: Display 1 column of library items 2 columns: Display 2 columns of library items Thumbnails: Display book covers as thumbnails Folder View: Display items present in memory (both microSD and internal memory) in folder view.
Inside the home and inside the library, the battery indicator is present in the bottom right corner. This 10 levels battery indicator gives an estimation (0% to 100%) of the current battery status. If the power consumption is very low, battery discharge normally at low pace rate (approximately 2 months, reading 30 minutes a day). Note: Battery indicator is not updated in real time. It may not display updated battery level especially if Cybook remains on Library page for several hours.
6. Reading On the library page, once you have selected an item, tap it once to open it. To identify which type (Book, PDF Document, Image) of items are present in your library, you can activate the "Show File Formats" option of the Library contextual menu. 6.1 Supported File Formats An eBook file is considered to be a digital document. It can be a book, a newspaper, a user's manual, etc. These documents are differentiated by their file type or file format. Several file formats can be read on your device.
Certain formats don’t propose the same features. For example, you can’t change the font size of a PDF file; you can just zoom in or zoom out. The reading environment depends on the format of opened document. Reading Environment for ePub/FB2/HTML/TXT files (Reflowable content) Page areas The header of the page displays the title of your document. For HTML and TXT document, it's the filename. The Footer of the page displays the current page on the total number of pages of the document.
Night Mode: Select “Night Mode” and your text will switch to white text on black background. Show Header: Show or hide the title of the book in the header part of the page. Show Pageometer/Footer: Show or hide pageometer (current page vs total number of pages). In order to annotate or highlight your text you just have to select the word or the paragraph that you like by moving your finger on it. Use the same procedure if you want to look up a word in the French dictionnary "Le Nouveau Littré".
quote. You will see that a little document appears on the right. Edit note: You select the note’s pictogram you want to modify. The note contextual menu will appear. You are now allowed to select “Edit note”. The digital keyboard will show up and you can type a new note. Remove note: Select “Remove note” and you will delete your last note on that page. Remove all notes: Select “Remove all notes” and you will delete all the notes you have made on that page.
Fit Width: Get the document page width correspond to screen width. In landscape mode this effect corresponds to a "zoom in" function for a standard document. Fit Height: Get the document page height correspond to screen height. In landscape mode this effect corresponds to a "zoom out" function for a standard document. 50%: Display half of the actual size. 60%: Display 60% of the actual size. 70%: Display 70% of the actual size. 80%: Display 80% of the actual size. 90%: Display 90% of the actual size.
7. Viewing Images On the library page, once you have selected an image file, tap on it or press the OK button to open it. An image entry can be identified by activating the "Show File Formats" option of the Library contextual menu. In this case JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, ICO, TIF, PSD files are considered as image files. 7.1 The Image Viewer Once your image file is opened, the image is displayed. If you swipe, you will jump from image to image.
8. Listening music On the library page, once you have selected an audio file, tap on it to open it. Only mp3 files are considered as music files. 8.1 Play music Once your file is open you just have to select "play" to listen to your music while reading or enjoy audio books. Then just select "stop" in order to stop the listening.
9. The Accelerometer Your Cybook Odyssey embeds an accelerometer which enables you to switch automatically the screen orientation (Portrait, Landscape) only by turning around the device. The layout will automatically follow(0°, 90°, 180°, 270°). You can disable the accelerometer via Settings menu.
10. Wi-Fi connection Your Cybook Odyssey embeds a Wi-Fi module which enables you to connect to a Wi-Fi Access Point. Once connected you will be able to download content and get access to Internet. 10.1 Start Wi-Fi connection The Wi-Fi connection will start while accessing the eBook store or the Internet via the Home page. You can also start the Wi-Fi connection from the Home page if you select Menu and Wi-Fi Networks when the menu pops-up.
If you want to turn off the Wi-Fi, you have to go to the Home page and select Menu. When the menu pops-up, you touch Wi-Fi Networks and select Wi-Fi off.
11. Download ebooks from your Cybook Odyssey Directly from your Cybook Odyssey, you can download ebooks thanks to a WiFi connection. 11.1 Bookeen's EBOOK STORE* Your Cybook Odyssey embeds a direct link to Bookeen's eBook store which offers a direct access to paying and free content. This EBOOK STORE is displayed in a full screen interface. No navigation bar or web address edit field is present on the page. News: After opening Bookeen's EBOOK STORE, you can find the News page.
Price range: Our “Price range” will help you classify ebooks by prices. Following: Click on following and you will receive all the news and updates on your authors, categories and favourite publishers. Account: With your account you can easily modify options of your ebook store. Moreover, you can follow the list of all ebooks that you have downloaded. Basket: In your basket, finalize your order and download your ebooks. Buy an ebook: 1.Select the ebook you want to buy. 2.
11.2 Bookstores Bookeen chose an "open" model. Not only can you download ebooks with the Bookeen bookstore, but also you can use other bookstore without any difficulties. You just have to choose and type your bookstore name in the edit field with the virtual keyboard. 11.3 Bookstore contextual menu You just need to tap the left bottom corner of the screen to pop-up the contextual menu.
Use the zoom in/zoom out gestures (see touch gestures) to zoom in or out the page. 11.7 Moving into the page (panning) If your page is bigger than the screen, you will need to move into the page. Use the sliding gestures (up, down, right, left, diagonals) to move your viewing window. 11.8 Downloading files Once you have selected download option a message box will open with a download message. Once the message box is closed, your file is fully downloaded in memory.
12. Internet access Your Cybook Odyssey embeds a direct link to free Internet and favorite websites. The favorite websites are available directly through Home page under Internet section. 12.1 Internet interface The Internet interface is very close to Internet browser interface on computer. You have a navigation bar on the top of the page. This bar is made of an URL edit field and three shortcut buttons: Back, Forward, favorite and Home.
12.7 Moving into the page (panning) If your page is bigger than the screen, you will need to move into the page. Use either the sliding gestures (up, down, right, left, diagonals) to move your viewing window or use the arrow keys. 12.8 Downloading file Once you have selected download option a message box will open with a download message. Once the message box is closed, your file is fully downloaded in memory.
13. Authentication/Device activation in order to download from a Cybook Odyssey In order to download paid content, you will need to authenticate your Cybook Odyssey. The authentication process takes place when you try to reach the EBOOK STORE. After tapping the EBOOK STORE link on the Home page and getting connected via Wi-Fi, you will be asked to create an account. This account creation process will authenticate your device and enable you to buy encrypted (DRM protected) content.
14. Authentication/Device activation in order to download from a computer You can also download ebooks from your computer and put them on your Cybook Odyssey via the USB cable. 14.1 Install ADE on your computer First of all, you have to plug your Cybook Odyssey to your computer. In order to get your Adobe login (Adobe ID), you have to get connected to this website: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership/index.cfm?nf=1&nl=1 Then you just have to download and install ADE 14.
15. Managing your Cybook 15.1 Managing Power > Charging the battery To charge your Cybook connect it via USB to a host computer or to the USB charger provided by Bookeen. Whenever possible, keep your Cybook Odyssey connected to AC power. Doing so keeps the battery charged. When the battery is fully charged, charging stops automatically (the battery will not overcharge).
16. Technical Specifications Size: 6.5" x 4.7" x 0.4" (166 x 120 x 9 mm) Weight: 6.87 oz , i.e. 195 g (battery included) Screen: 6" E Ink® Pearl screen Daylight readable Resolution: 600 x 800 pixels (167 dpi) 16 grey levels Multi-touch capacitive touchscreen (finger or adapted stylus only) Storage Memory: 2 GB (accessible capacity may vary, some space is reserved for the system) Processor: Cortex A8 TI OMAP3611 800MHz Communication Ports: USB Client (v2.
17. Additional information 17.1 Accessories Please contact your dealer or visit the www.bookeen.com web site for the availability of accessories for your Cybook Odyssey. The use of unadapted accessories will void your warranty. For detailed information on using the accessories, see the instructions supplied with the accessories. Contacting Bookeen www.bookeen.com Adobe and Reader are trademarks of Adobe Systems Inc.
