Help Activity refresh/Chapter/Read

About

The Read activity allows the laptop to act as a book reader. It has a simple interface, and will view many kinds of text and image-based book-like materials. It will have particular strengths in handheld mode, with extremely low power consumption and simple navigation controls.

Read can read PDF files and single-page TIFF files.

Using

The Read activity is launched by opening the Journal and choosing a PDF document. PDFs downloaded from Browse can be opened in this way, as can PDFs on an external storage device. The user may also start Read from the Home page Favorites circle and select a file to read.

The book opens in a portrait orientation.

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Navigation

First make sure the document canvas is selected (and not the tool-bar menu) by clicking either in the page area, or pressing the TAB key until focus moves out of the toolbar (2 presses usually):

• Keyboard cursors, or screen direction pad, will scroll the page a few lines in any direction
• ALT + keyboard cursors, or screen direction pad, will scroll the page a small amount in any direction
• FN + keyboard cursor up/down will move one page up or down (with a small overlap to keep context)
• Screen gamepad buttons circle and cross also act as page up and page down (with a small overlap to keep context)
• Screen gamepad buttons square and tick act as a zoom in and zoom out
• FN + keyboard cursor right/left will jump to the start or end of the document
• For vi fans (a Terminal based text editor), keys h, j, k, l also act as left, down, up, right

Reading from the journal, reading from other sources, Keyboard And kindle style flat book key use Brightness Control Reading in Monochrome CTL+Brightness Key

brightness control. Monochrome outside is easier to view books (CTL Brightness Down)

Note: Be aware that large books may open and scroll slowly.

Applying

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