Cybook Orizon User's Manual Touch | Wi-Fi | ePaper Copyright © 2010 Bookeen. All rights reserved.
Cybook Orizon 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 1.6 © 2010 Bookeen.
1. Introduction 1.1 Welcome Congratulations on purchasing a Cybook Orizon, the electronic book (eBook) reader based on ePaper technology. Cybook Orizon 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 Orizon 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 Orizon, check the content of your package. You will find in the box: > Default components: • • • • Cybook Orizon Quick Start Guide Protection jacket USB Cable 2.2 About your Cybook Orizon The illustrations hereafter introduce you to the various buttons, connectors, ports and physical features of your Cybook Orizon. Front view [1] Epaper touch screen: Touch, multi-touch, swipe, pinch, rotate, flip... Your screen obeys at the touch of a finger.
[2] Navigation button: This button is a 5 way control button (left, right, up, down) plus a central validation key. If you hold down a key, the action is repeated. [3] Wireless LED: When connected through Wi-Fi, light is green. When connected through Bluetooth, light is blue. [4] Status LED: When charging battery through USB, light is red. When operating, light is green. Back view [5] Power Button: Switches the Cybook Orizon ON and OFF. [6] microSD Slot: Enables you to add storage memory card.
General Guidelines • Keep your Cybook Orizon away from excessive moisture and extreme temperatures. • Do not expose your Cybook Orizon to liquids or precipitation. • Avoid exposing your Cybook Orizon to direct sunlight or strong ultraviolet light for extended periods of time. • Operating your Cybook outside supported temperature may alter usability. For example in a cold environment, Cybook Orizon screen quality will decrease (ghosting, dimmed).
Connecting to power and charging the battery The Cybook Orizon has an internal rechargeable Li-Polymer battery. It allows a large battery lifetime (around 10,000 pages turned or two weeks of average reading). You could check the status of the charge in the interface thanks to the status bar. 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 display a background image with a progress bar indicating the booting sequence. This sequence should last around 25 seconds. 2. "Instant Reading" after "Instant Off" mode: Press once on the physical On/Off. The device will switch on in less than one second and come back to the same position as you left it. If you switch Off the device while using wireless connectivity, you will be bounced back to the home page.
3. Basic Skills This chapter familiarizes you with the basic operations of your Cybook Orizon such as discovering the ePaper screen, using the touchscreen, using the buttons, understanding contextual menu and connection principles. 3.1 The ePaper Screen The Cybook shows an outstanding black and white screen, utilizing a breakthrough technology: the ePaper Display (by SiPix®). 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.
Swiping Diagonally: Used to pan images or PDF files diagionally, or to turn forward or backward pages. Zoom In: Pinch out gesture with two fingers is used to zoom in a document or an image, to increase font size or decrease the number of books per page in the library view. 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 The Contextual Menu While using your device, you can always pop-up a window containing a multi -choice 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.
3.4 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 Orizon 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 pressing On/Off button, Cybook Orizon boots. A progress bar appears and displays the advancement of the booting sequence. The booting sequence lasts approximately 25 seconds. After progress bar finishes, 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 book you were reading. Taping the book or Currently Reading title will automatically opens it on the last page you were reading. Library Library displays the last books or documents you have downloaded and then the last books or documents you were reading.
• 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 or calibrate the accelerometer. • Reinitialization: Restore factory settings.
5. The Library The Cybook Orizon 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 or use right/left buttons of the navigation control to switch from page to page. To open a document or a folder, you just need to tap on it once.
first element, of the first page of your library view or by swiping up your finger on the screen. 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 central button to pop-up the contextual menu.
• Settings: Display advanced options via a new menu. (see Settings menu) • Home: Get back to Home page. 5.4 Battery indicator 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. As the power consumption is very low, battery discharge normally at low pace rate (approximately 2 weeks, reading 2 hours a day). Note: Battery indicator is not updated in real time.
6. Reading On the library page, once you have selected an item, tap it once or press the OK button 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.
While reading you just need to tap the bottom left corner of the screen or press the OK button to pop-up the Reading contextual menu. Different choices will then be available depending on the file format of the document you are reading. 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.
◦ Verdana : Set the font to Verdana (default font). ◦ […]: other fonts. these fonts are installable. You just need to copy your font files (TTF) in the font folder. Your font family will then appear in this list of installed fonts. You will then be able to choose it for your text. • Layout…: Allow you to modify the layout of the book. It opens a second menu. ◦ Justified Text: Force the text to be justified (aligned both to the right and left borders).
◦ Fit Page: Get the document page fit entirely inside the screen limits. Note: in landscape mode this effect corresponds to a "zoom out" function for a standard document. ◦ 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.
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, GIF or PNG files are considered as image files. 7.1 The Image Viewer Once your image file is opened, the image is displayed. If you swipe or use the navigation button, you will jump from image to image.
8. The Accelerometer Your Cybook Orizon embeds an accelerometer which enables you to switch automatically the screen orientation (Portrait, Landscape) only by turning around the device. According to the orientation of your device (0°, 90°, 180°, 270°), the screen will follow the orientation of your device. You can disable the accelerometer via Settings menu.
9. Wi-Fi connection Your Cybook Orizon 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. 9.1 Start Wi-Fi connection The Wi-Fi connection will start only while accessing the Bookstore or the Internet via the Home page. Wi-Fi module will start automatically and will try to connect to an already configured network or will scan available networks. 9.
If you accept to install a new update please be sure your battery is at least at 60%. The update process is fully automatic and can take several minutes. Once you have accepted the update you don't need to operate the device anymore until it comes back to the Home page. During this process you will have an automatic sequence displaying numerous messages and progress bars.
10. The Bookstore Your Cybook Orizon embeds a direct link to an Bookstore which offers a direct access to paying content. 10.1 Bookstore interface Your Bookstore is displayed in a full screen interface. No navigation bar or web address edit field is present on the page. 10.2 Bookstore contextual menu You just need to tap the left bottom corner of the screen or press the central button to pop-up the contextual menu.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All new files are automatically downloaded through wireless in Digital Editions folder. The new files appear automatically in first position of Library section of Cybook Orizon Home page.
11. Internet access Your Cybook Orizon embeds a direct link to free Internet and favorite websites. The favorite websites are available directly through Home page under Internet section. 11.1 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 and Home.
11.7 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. IMPORTANT NOTE: All new files are automatically downloaded through wireless in Digital Editions folder. The new files appear automatically in first position of Library section of Cybook Orizon Home page.
12. Authentication/Device activation In order to download paid content, you will need to authenticate your Cybook Orizon. The authentication process takes place when you try to reach the eBooks store. After taping the Bookstore 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. This process will bind your device to a unique ID called Adobe ID. 12.
13. Managing your Cybook 13.1 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 Orizon connected to AC power. Doing so keeps the battery charged. When the battery is fully charged, charging stops automatically (the battery will not overcharge).
14. Technical Specifications Size: 4.9" x 7.5" x 0.29" (125 x 190 x 7.6 mm) Weight: 8.6 oz , i.e. 245 g (battery included) Screen: 6" E Ink® SiPix 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: ARM (400 MHz) Communication Ports: USB Client (v2.
15. Additional information 15.1 Accessories Please contact your dealer or visit the www.bookeen.com web site for the availability of accessories for your Cybook Orizon. The use of unadapted accessories will void your warranty. For detailed information on using the accessories, see the instructions supplied with the accessories. 15.2 Compliances and SAR warnings IMPORTANT NOTE: This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
