Overview

This section illustrates and describes µBookLite basic functionalities.

µBookLite will be improved on a regular basis.

Menu

Click on the lower left symbol (here highlighted in red) to open the menu. Alternately you can use the hardware menu key.

From the menu you can Open... a book, view Recently opened Files or access the Options...

Open...

Click on the book name (here highlighted in red) to open it. When first opening a book µBookLite will start paginating it, a process you can witness by seing the total number of pages increase. While this is being done, you have access to what is already paginated.

Re-opening a book after closing it, will return you to the page where you left it.

Reading

Click left or right of the page number to move to the previous or next page (here highlighted in red). Alternately you can use the hardware left and right arrow keys.

To move faster, click on the page number and the quick page move control will open. You can then move to the beginning, backward 100 pages, backward 10 pages, forward 10 pages, forward 100 pages or to the end of the book.

Options...

The Options... dialog is divided into several sections, each used to control some aspect of µBookLite and/or the book you are currently reading.

The Font section lets you see and select from available fonts and font sizes as well as set the RGB orientation of your unit's display. Selecting the correct orientation is essential for hiding artifact from smooth fonts sub-pixels.

The Display section lets you control the Brightness, Contrast and Sharpness of images and fonts. You should use it along you unit's hardware backlighting and contrast to improve the look of smooth fonts.

The Auto-Scroll section lets you select a fixed or words-per-minute delay between lines. The delay itself can be adjusted while in Auto-Scroll mode.

The Hyphens sections lets you choose between the English or French simple hyphenating rules. The Parser sections lets you manually specify the text format if the Automatic mode did not correctly detect it.

Note that changing some options might trigger a re-paginating of the whole book.

Auto-Scrolling

Auto-Scrolling (A-S) lets you read without having to manually turn pages. The text advances one line at a time with a user-defined delay between each line.

It is divided into three states: off, paused (yellow bar) and moving (blue bar). You can step through the states by using the hardware up and down arrow keys.

When A-S is moving (blue bar), you can use the hardware left and right key to adjust the current delay type speed (here 125 wpm, words-per-minute).

When A-S is off, you can also use the hardware up arrow key to start it in reverse, going backwards in the text.

Font Packs

Several font packs are available for download from this web-site. Only one at a time can be installed on your device.

The screen captures above, illustrate the uBookFonts-Reg-X smooth font pack (with the Times font). Those to the left illustrate the uBookFonts-Sharp sharp font pack (with the Arial font).