Palm Reader Guide

PALM™ READER USER GUIDE MACINTOSH V1 Copyright Copyright © 2002 Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. HotSync, Palm, and Palm OS are registered trademarks of Palm, Inc. in one or more countries. The Palm logo is a trademark of Palm, Inc. Other product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks of their respective owners. Disclaimer and Palm, Inc. and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for Limitation of any damage or loss resulting from the use of this guide. Liability Palm, Inc. and its subsidiaries assume no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties which may arise through the use of this software. Palm, Inc. and its subsid- iaries assume no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on other media to protect against data loss. CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION About Palm™ Reader 1–1 Who Should Use Palm Reader? 1–1 System Requirements 1–1 About this Guide 1–2 Conventions 1–2 2 VIEWING EBOOKS Starting Palm Reader 2–1 Opening eBooks 2–2 Changing How Text Displays 2–4 Changing the Background 2–6 Displaying Using the Full Screen 2–7 3 NAVIGATING THROUGH EBOOKS Visual Navigation Elements 3–1 Turning Pages 3–3 Following Links 3–8 Searching for Text 3–12 Using Bookmarks 3–13 Using Notes 3–16 INDEX ii 1 INTRODUCTION About Palm™ Welcome to Palm™ Reader, a program that brings elec- Reader tronic books to your desktop computer. With Palm Reader, you can read books in Palm Reader format and Palm Doc format. Both of these types of files end in the extension .pdb. Who Should Use Anyone with a desktop computer can use Palm Reader. Palm Reader? Thousands of titles are available from Palm Digital Media (www.palmdigitalmedia.com). From within Palm Reader, you can go directly to the Palm Digital Media website by selecting Get Books from the Help menu. System To run Palm Reader on a Macintosh computer, you need: Requirements ■ A PowerPC running Mac® OS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib 1.5 or later. If you are running Mac® OS X, Palm Reader requires version 10.1 or later. Mac® OS 10.1.5 or later is recommended. ■ A hard drive with at least 11 MB of available disk space (2 MB for the application and 9 MB for this user guide) ■ At least 16 MB of available memory 1…