The Reader Tools on the enTourage eDGe
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
The e-reader on the enTourage eDGe lets you interact with your books.
Heres an overview of the tools you can use.
Remember to use your stylus for everything you press on the e-reader screen.
Press the library icon to see a list of all your books.
Press the Recent Books icon to see the most recently opened books or documents.
Press the Book Info icon to view the title and author of the book on the touchscreen.
Youll also see a table of contents with links to all the books markups, which include notes, highlights, and attachments.
The zoom tools let you zoom into text
Zoom out
Select an area of a pdf to zoom into
And return to the original size.
The highlighter lets you highlight text. All your highlights are saved as part of the book.
The Note tool lets you attach notes to your books.
Press the Note icon, then select the text where you want to attach a note.
A keyboard opens on the touchscreen to let you type the note.
To access it later, press the note icon on the right side of the page, or find it in the Table of Contents.
To delete markups, press the eraser icon on the Reader toolbar, and then touch any unwanted highlight, note, or attachment.
Press the PDF Reflow icon to convert a multi-column PDF into a single column, or to make text size adjustable without expanding the entire page.
Select some text and press the copy icon to copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it into the touchscreen. Just press and hold a text box, then select Paste text.
The search icon lets you choose a word or phrase from an e-book to search for it online, in the dictionary, or within the book itself.
Select text with the stylus and press the search icon.
Or just press the search icon to type text yourself.
Now choose where to search.
The camera tool lets you view images in color by transferring them from the grayscale e-reader to the full-color touchscreen.
Press the camera icon, then drag across the picture with your stylus. Or, press the Camera icon again to capture the entire page.
Your selection will then open on the touchscreen, where you can zoom in or out.
Save the image by pressing the Add to Library icon, or close it by pressing the Back button.
The Annotator toggle lets you switch back and forth between Reader Mode, which lets you read books and add basic markups, and Annotator Mode, which also lets you draw on your books. Opening Annotator Mode reveals a second toolbar that you can learn more about in the next chapter, and closing it hides your annotations.
Press the Settings icon to set preferences for tools in the Reader and Annotator.
Press the refresh icon to re-draw the screen. This smooths out any pixilated annotations.
Press the help icon to open the help guide for the mode youre currently in.
The bookmark tool is one useful feature that isnt in the main toolbar. Simply press the dogear icon in the top right corner of a page and you can easily find your place again from the table of contents.
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