Reading a book

After opening a book you can start to read :) . You will find usefull this gestures during your reading:

  • Tap left side: Change to previous page.
  • Tap right side: Change to next page.
  • Swippe to right: Change to next chapter.
  • Swippe to left: Change to previuos chapter.
  • Swipe down from top: Show main menu.
  • Tap bottom: Displays navigation menu.
  • Zoom gesture: Increase/decrease font size.
  • Long tap on any text: will hightlight that sentence and allow you to change selection. Context menu will be shown.
  • Long tap on any link:  will allow you to go to that link.
  • Tap on title to go to TOC.
  • Rotate your Playbook to change between portrait and landscape modes. Reading point will not be changed. You can lock autorotation.

When reading, title bar automatically disappears after a few seconds to avoid disturbing while reading. Just tap on top zone to show it again, you need title bar to show TOC or go back to main library.

Main Menu

Swipping down from top you will se main menu with options to customize text to your eyes:

  • Font change: Select the most suitable font for your eyes.

  • Night/day/sepia theme switch. Changes colors to adapt screen to light conditions.

 

  • Font size slide: changes font size. You can also make a zoom gesture in text to increase/decrease font size.
  • Line separator slide: increase/decrease space between lines of text.

  • Bright slide: increases/decreases screen bright.

  • Rotation: Allows Playbook autoroate Playepub or not. Choosing “no” Playepub will remain always on the same orientation.
  • Page anim: Adds page animation and page change “sound” when changing page.
  • Clock: Sets 24h or 12h clock mode.
  • Standby: Lets you decide if Playbook should go to standby mode after some time of inactivity. When reading, standby could be launched before you finish to read a page, so it might be annoying. Deactivate standby mode but keep in mind that you will have activate it again, close PlayEpub or manually go to standby mode or you’ll kill your battery as it will be always on.
  • Style: Choose between using book or default styles. If you have any visualization problem with book styles, use default ones. See the diferences between generic and book styles, second one looks better.

  • Columns: number of columns to read on landscape mode. Default is two columns, but you can change to just one.

 

 

General navigation options

Along the application you will often see these two buttons:

  • “Back” button is usually a history navigation. and goes back to a previous state of PlayEpub.
    In reading mode, you can go previous and next page but, what if you change to a bookmark or to a different chapter using TOC screen? You can go back to your reading point with this back button. It maintains a real history of the pages you see and lets you going back. There is no option to going next.
  • Always goes to home screen, book list.

 

Text selection context menu

Long tap on any text will let you highlight some text and will show you a context menu with many options to do with it. You can move start and end marks to change your selection.

After you have selected the text you want you can:

  • Add/delete bookmark: Adds a bookmark to current page. If it had previously been bookmarked, you can delete this bookmark instead of adding another one.
  • Add note: Lets you add a note in the current page with selected text. You can customize this text.
  • Add/delete highlight: Lets you highlight selected text. To delete an existing highlight, select the SAME text and this icon will delete that highlight, it will have an X on it to show the delete option.
  • Translate: Allows you to translate selected text.
  • Copy: Copies selected text to clipboard to use in any other apps.
  • Share on Facebook: Publishes selected text on your Facebook wall. You will have to allow PlayEpub Facebook app to publish on your wall.
  • Share on Twitter: Publishes selected text on Twitter.
  • Search on Google: Opens default browser searching selected text on Google.
  • Send by email: Opens new OS2.0 native email client for writing new message with selected text.
  • Search on dictionary: Searchs first selected word on the dictionary.

When highlighting text a text selection color popup is shown to let you choose the color to highlight.

If long tap over a link on your book the context menu will allow you to navigate to that link. If it’s an external link it will be opened in default Playbook browser.

Navigation menu

At the bottom of read screen you can see the % you have read. You will also see a mark showing the end of actual chapter.

Taping on bottom zone you will see a secondary menu or navigation menu where you can go book start, book end, review your bookmarks and notes and go to a percentage value of the book.

With the “Go to” option you can go to any place in the book.

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