BOOX Palma e Reader User Manual
- June 15, 2024
- BOOX
Table of Contents
BOOX User Manual
Copyright Declaration
Guangzhou Onyx International Inc.
reserves the right to make changes to the product specifications and contents
contained in the Quick Start Guide and User Manual without prior notice.
- All book images in this manual are for display only, not pre-installed books;
- Due to different software versions, some functions or interfaces may be inconsistent with the description in the manual. It is subject to the final product.
Safety Guide
Please read the following safety instructions before use.
If you encounter any technical difficulties, please contact your BOOX
retailer, or call the official after-sales hotline at 4008-400-014 or
4008-860-830 for assistance.
Fragile Screen Protection
Please do not directly hit, squeeze, oppress the screen, or drop it from a
high place onto a hard surface. If the display screen is broken, please stop
using it and contact our customer service or other qualified professionals for
replacement. Do not disassemble and replace it by yourself.
Qualified Accessories
Only batteries, chargers and other accessories that meet the safety standards
of this equipment are allowed to be used. For details, please refer to the
product specifications.
Use of incompatible accessories will result in damage to the device at your
own risk.
Keep away from liquids
This device is not waterproof. Do not expose it to a humid environment or use
it in the rain. Please keep it away from any corrosive liquids.
Do not dismantle the device
The battery of this device cannot be replaced. Please do not disassemble it by
yourself to avoid damage to the structure or screen.
Using environment
The environment temperature range of using this device is 0°C-50°C.
We are not responsible for the damage or loss of data in the equipment caused
by human abnormal operation or unexpected circumstances, nor for other
indirect losses caused thereby.
If you need to return to the factory for repair, please back up important data
by yourself. We are not responsible for data loss caused by repairing or
replacing parts or updating the system.
Quick Start
3.1 Home Screen
3.2 Control Center
Pull it down from the right top edge or tap to expand.
Tap the “Edit” icon on the top to edit the functions for the center.
3.3 Notification Center
Pull it down from the left top edge or tap to expand.
3.4 Content Area
Tap and hold an app to move it around on the screen, uninstall it, optimize
it, add it to a group, or access some quick functions supported by the app.
3.5 Desktop Edit
Tap and hold a blank area for 2 seconds to enter desktop editing status. Tidy
up apps on the screen, add widgets to desktop, and manage desktop settings.
ONYX Apps
4.1 Library
You can import your own books to the Storage\books path, or download books
from the pre-installed Store App;
4.1.1 Library options
You can search books, check Reading Statistics, create bookshelf, manage
library in bulk, filter and sort, scan book covers, manage sync settings and
Library settings.
4.1.2 Library Settings
You can choose to display title instead of file name, enable/disable reading
statistics, or choose scan path.
You can customize the scan path.
Notice:
In the following case, some documents will be removed from the Library after
the Library is refreshed.
You can check the source files from the saving path.
- Documents opened directly from other non-scanning path in Storage.
- Documents that are not in the default scan path after the default scan path is modified.
4.1.3 Sync settings
You can sync reading progress and data across devices via Onyx Cloud.
If you do not want to sync your reading data of all books, you can turn this
feature off.
If you do not
want to sync the reading data of some books, long press the book cover to go
to Sync Settings, andturn their sync off individually.
Notice: Only reading data can be synced to the Cloud.
The original book files cannot be synced to the Cloud.
You need to add book files to the same path on different devices for the sync.
4.1.4 Book Property
Long press a book cover to check book details, some reading statistics and
operation options.
Tap the path to jump to the saving location in storage.
Clear settings
You can clear password, reading data, cache, and book cover.
Clear password default settings Only clear the default settings of locked
documents or documents with their own passwords, and will not clear the
relevant passwords.
Clear reading data All personal data of the selected book will be cleared. The
data cannot be recovered after being cleared.
4.1.5 Reading Statistics
This summarizes your personal reading statistics, including Today ’s Reading
Time, Read Books, Finished Books, Total Reading Time, Marks and Annotations.
Average reading time this week is based on 7 days and calculates the average
daily reading time within this week.
Tap Marks and Annotations to jump to My Annotations page and tap any book
under Recently Finished Books to open the book.
4.2 NeoReader
Default Tap Area
There are 6 preset Touch Area Settings. You can also customize the touch areas based on your personal preferences.
Select words
Long press a word to call out the dictionary dialog box. You can switch
between different dictionaries. Select the one you want from the dropdown
list.
Highlight
After selecting the text, you can choose colors to highlight and underline.
The colorful highlights and underlines can display the original colors when exported to other color screen devices.
Bottom Menu (Free-flow formats)
The menu includes Contents, Progress, Format, Contrast，supports free-flow
formats, such as EPUB\TXT\MOBI\AZW3,etc.
V2 Engine
Some free-flow formats such as ePub\Mobi\azw3\txt\word\jeb\html use V2 Engine
by default. You can go to reading Settings / Other settings to change to
disable it.
V2 Engine supports the original layout of the document, including font, line
spacing, margin, graphic typesetting, indentation, etc.
Format
The settings such as font size, typeface, contrast, bold, spacing; If you want to restore the original format of the document, you can tap the Restore Original Format icon.
Contents
This section includes TOC, Bookmarks, Annotations and Handwriting.
TOC
supports a 3-level structure.
Tap each content to jump to the corresponding page.
Tap any area outside of the Contents interface to exit.
Bookmarks
Tap each bookmark to jump to the corresponding page.
Annotations All highlighted, underlined, and annotated contents are shown in
Contents/Annotations. You can check, edit, and delete all relevant content
here.
All contents under Annotations can be exported.
The default saving path for the exported contents is Storage/ note/ a file
with the same name as the original document. You can also export the contents
to a third-party notes app.
Handwritting
This model does not support handwritting and only displays the handwritten
content synced from other BOOX models.
Progress
When opening a book for the first time, it takes a certain amount of time to
load all the pages, depending on the amount of contents; After completing the
page pagination loading, you can drag the progress bar to jump pages.
You can choose TTS , auto turn page, check preview thumbnails;
TTS
TTS allows you to play reading in the background. You can turn pages or
perform other operations when the reading is in progress.
When the page you turn does not match the reading page, you can tap ” Original
Text” to jump back to TTS reading page.
Preview
You can preview the whole book in 1/4/9-page thumbnail view and then quickly
browse more pages and locate the page you want to jump to.
Contrast
Embolden: only embolden text in PDF Sharpen Img: Make blur image sharper
Watermark Bleaching: Bleach the light-color images or background on the page
Dark Color Enhancement: Adjust for the whole page or only the text, making the
display darker;
Picture dithering: Optimize the display effect of pictures with gradient
colors;
Bottom Menu(PDF formats)
The menu includes Contents, Progress, Format, Contrast, Reflow, Supports
PDF\DJVU\CBR\CBZ.
Format
Zoom: You can zoom in/out the whole page, zoom in the marquee area, or pinch-
to-zoom any area you want.
Crop: Tap relevant functions to automatically crop all blank areas, or blank
areas only on the left and right, or the marquee area.
Margin: This is for the margin you want to keep for automatic crop. You can
adjust it to the size you want.
In zoom-in status, when the zoomed-in page exceeds the screen area, you can
drag the page around to check different areas. A single tap only turns sub-
pages. Tap the Virtual Buttons to turn the whole page.
Reflow
Only apply to PDF\DJVU\CBR\CBZ in scanned version and text-based version.
You can adjust Text Direction, Spacing, Alignment, Font Size, Columns, Tilting
Correction.
Text Type reflow Apply to digital or OCRed PDF. After being reflowed, the
document can use flow-document functions.
OCR
Only support images on formats including PDF、CBR、CBZ、DJVU、PNG Recognize one
page at a time.
Selecting the right layout can improve recognition accuracy.
After recognition, long press any text to add marks or look up dictionaries.
If some recognized text is not accurate, you can correct the text in the
annotation dialog box (This does not change the original text in the image)
The pages that have used OCR will show the OCR icon in the upper right corner.
Check all recognized pages from Contents/Bookmarks where you can quickly
locate and jump to the relevant pages. Tap the OCR icon on the upper right
corner to clear OCR content.
Reader Settings
Tap the hamburger menu on the upper right corner to go to the Reader Settings,
Including
Global Settings, PDF Settings, Touch Settings, Annotation Export
Settings,Screenshot Settings, Floating Toolbar Settings, Dictionary Settings
,Other Settings, and Version Number.
4.3 Dictionary
Please download a dicionary before your first use. If the download list does
not include the dictionary you want, you can download the dictionary from
other sources and sideload it to the path Storage\dicts on your device.
Please refer to the dictionary settings for more information.
Word pronunciation
requires dictionaries with voice files ， TTS is currently not supported. You
can import your own dictionary files and save them to the designated storage
path: sdcard\dicts\;
The lookup results are
subject to the words included in the dictionary. If you cannot find a word,
please change to another dictionary.
4.4 BOOXDrop
Connect your BOOX with a PC or a mobile phone. You can send files to your BOOX
from PC or BOOX Assistant app, or saves files of your BOOX to your PC or
mobile phone.
How to:
-
Open BooxDrop from Apps page or Control Center.
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Open a browser on your PC
2.1 No login required: Make sure your BOOX and PC in the same network.
Enter the IP address shown on BooxDrop interface to your PC browser to connect.
BooxDrop does not disconnect automatically.
If you want to disconnect it, please disconnect it manually or on BooxDrop interface.
http://192.168.3.108:8085
2.2 Log in to Onyx Account: open push.boox.com. You can see the connected devices and click any device to open. -
When you open a connected device, it will automatically recognize whether your BOOX and your PC are in the same network. If they are not in the same network, you can not open the page. Please change to the same Wi-Fi.
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When the connection is successful, you can load all folders and files from your BOOX.
5. Send files to BOOX: You can select files on your PC and send to BOOX. All sent files are grouped into corresponding folders based on file formats.
Recent files: all files are sorted by time and same as Storage/Recent Files Library: Books/xxx.epub (including all supported file formats)
Image: Pictures/xxx.png
Music: Music/xxxx.mp3
Audios: Movies/xxxx.mp4
Download: Download/xxx.xxx
(Including non-books, pictures, mp3, mp4, etc.) Storage: Send files to the selected storage. 6. Save files to PC: when you select a file from your BOOX on your PC, you can choose a saving path to save to your PC.
4.5 PushRead
Onyx Push
You can push webpages to your
BOOX via Push in push.boox.com or BOOX Assistant, and
read on your BOOX.
RSS\OPDS
Subscription
You can add subscriptions from the public source list. You can also customize
your RSS/OPDS
subscription. You need
to create a group for the first-time adding RSS subscription source so that
the subscription source can be added to the relevant group.
The webpages in PushRead requires internet to load for the first time. After
being loaded, it can be read offline.
The default layout is Web Mode (the original webpage ’ s layout). Tap the
center of the screen to bring out the menu where you can switch to Reading
Mode, change font size, and fully refresh the screen.
4.6 Storage
Here includes the storage path and document categories.
OTG Flash Drives
This device supports Type-C OTG flash drives.
OTG devices require a power supply and will increase battery consumption
Low storage warning
Please make sure of leaving at least 300MB of storage for normal system
running and relevant data storage.
When the storage is lower than 300MB, the system bar will show a warning icon
for “ insufficient storage”.
System Settings
5.1 Onyx Account
Support multiple accounts and switching between accounts.
If different accounts use different servers, the servers will be switched when
you log in to another account.
Associated accounts: After you log in to a main account, you can associate the
main account with another two login methods. The three login methods share the
same account.
Mobile phone and E-mail support unbinding.
5.2 Kids Mode
You can set your Palma to Kids Mode, which only displays the authorized books
and apps. In Kids Mode, you can also set the Duration of Use and help kids to
use the device responsibly.
Please create or log in to an ONYX account before creating a kid account.
Enabling or exiting Kids Mode requires Lock Screen password.
5.3 Apps and Notifications
Here includes Application, Permission , Notification , Default app, App
Startup, App Refresh Mode, Store Settings, Freeze Settings, etc.
5.3.1 App Startup
Only for auto-starting apps. If enabled, it may increase memory usage and
power consumption.
The app itself must have the function of monitoring system to automatically
start up. After installing the APK, you need to manually open the app to run
it once;
After the startup is successful, it only runs in the background and will not
be displayed in the recent running tasks;
5.3.2 App Refresh Mode
You can manage refresh modes of third-party apps in bulk.
5.3.3 Freeze Settings
You can freeze third-party apps here.
Freezing apps that are running in the background can reduce power consumption.
When you open third-party apps for the first time, an App Optimization tutorial will pop up. If you want to see the tutorial again, please reset the App Optimization Tutorial here.
5.4 Desktop and Screensaver
You can set Home Screen, choose to lock the desktop layout, and enable Smart
Assistant. Only one power-off image can be used.
Screensaver
Support Image Screensaver(default), Memo Screensaver, Clock Saver, and
Transparent Saver.
For Image Screensaver, when you select only one image, the screensaver stays
static. When you choose more than one images, the screensaver will play all
the images repeatedly.
Power-off Image Setting
You can set Power-off image along with settings including “Show text on power-
off screen, Text Position, Image zoom method. (When image ratio is different
from screen, the image cannot be used.)
5.5 Display
Text
You can adjust the system font, font size. When you choose largest font, some
interface text may be covered due to short of display space.
Screen
You can adjust screen brightness, set Auto Sleep and Auto Power-off , and
full-refresh frequency.
5.6 Password and Security
Android 11 does not support resetting password. Please keep your password
safe.
5.7 More Settings
Here includes System Update, Language and Input, Date and Time, Navigation
Ball, Screenshots, Screen Recording, Accessibility, Calibration, USB Debug
Mode, and Reset Device.
System Update
By default the system will check update package locally first, then check from
cloud.
If a firmware update is detected, it will be downloaded automatically.
Download can be paused in progressing, and resumed later.
When an update package is downloaded successfully, you need to manually choose
whether to update your BOOX.
Before updating, please ensure 20% of battery and enough storage space.
5.8 FAQ and Feedback
FAQ
Here contains those frequently asked questions. If you have any questions, you
can find the relevant questions here.
Feedback
You can add attachments such as documents or pictures to your feedback, which
will help us quickly locate the problems.
Thank you
Thank you very much for your support.
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