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Tips and tricks for PocketBook
I was planning to make this thread for a long time. There is so much stuff I keep discovering and finding on this forum.
Dear fellow PocketBook owners, please help me to expand this list.
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Excellent thank you, I didn't know about the .TTC fonts at all.
There are loads of things I love about the PB. The customizable buttons are fab - I have my on/off button set to show me the last books I've read and love that you can select one to open it - makes reading several books at once as I like to a breeze. The other thing I really love (not really a tip) is the screen rotation. So many times during the day, I need to rotate so I can read with the other hand - while eating, drinking, making notes, chatting on the phone and cuddling my toddler. I can't get over how easy it is. |
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11. You can emulate Pocketbook on your PC with PBSDK
12. You can create logos for your pocketbook wich appears at the start and turned off 13. You can install Pocketbook180° to change page without using any Key I would copy this thread to the german forum, if you allow me to. |
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That was the discovery that prompted me to create the thread.
I was looking for a tool to convert ttc to ttf and I kept finding pages with detailed steps for installing the "Vista fonts" on Linux. Many of those detailed walk-throughs included script that simply renamed the CAMBRIA.TTC to CAMBRIA.TTF, so I gave it a try. And since PocketBook basically runs generic Linux stuff ... it worked. Perhaps even Guys In Kiev (TM) do not know yet that it works ;-) I keep playing with fonts on my PocketBook looking for THE perfect one. It is strange, I never noticed the font while I was reading paper books. I also accepted the fonts that came with my Sony Reader PRS-500. But now, that I can try various ones, I am noticing the little things. I am also learning quite a few things about various types of serif fonts. The other day I even gathered quite a few of my favourite paper books from cheapest paperbacks to quality hardbacks, from my childhood favourites to the newest ones and I was comparing fonts. In some cases I was very surprised what I used to consider to be an acceptable font ;-) At the moment I am alternating between Droid, Gentium, Linux Liberation, Linux Libertine and Deja-vu fonts while trying out other stuff in between. By the way, do you know a nice slab-serif that can be downloaded for legally for private use in Regular, Bold, Italics and BoldItalics variant? |
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Go ahead.
I will, with your permission, copy your points to the first post ;-) I would also like to ask you Ulli to bring interesting suggestions from the German forum here, so I can include it for us - non-German-speaking folks. I do read German PocketBook forum from time to time, but I have to use Translate.Google.com service. Last edited by kacir; 01-10-2010 at 05:06 PM. |
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Isn't 6=13???
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I will post em here, if i find sth interesting posted in "our" forum.
If you need sth translated and google doesnt work fine for you, you can PM me. |
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I have updated the Tips and Tricks list.
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What about the "sleep mode" or "power saving mode" mentioned in this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66697 I find this very handy. |
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One could add the possibility of turning pages rapidly by holding the right side of the navigation cross, this turns ten pages at once instantly!
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From the german forum there was following tips:
* Menutexts can be changed indivudial * Using the Controlkeys you can switch 10pages with one longer hit * Paging PDFs in pdfviewer you should use the "downbutton" you will get a dotted line which shows you where you have stopped reading |
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Forgot one...
* Deactivate G-Sensor. Mainmenu-> Settings ->appearance -> montiororient (?!) -> highformat. In the main just deactivate "auto". The Pagedisplay can be changed over the quickmenu while reading. |
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