Section 4: Managing eBook Editions

Managing Your Bookshelf

Just as library bookshelves store books, your eBook’s Bookshelf stores your eBook Editions. When you press the Bookshelf icon, your eBook displays the Bookshelf page.

The Bookshelf banner, shown above, is more than just decoration: It shows how much space on your eBook is occupied by eBook Editions. For example, if the bookshelf in the banner is just over half full, as shown above, then eBook Editions currently on your eBook occupy just over half the available space.

You can also tap on the Bookshelf banner to access a window that slides down from the top of the screen and displays the amount of storage space available in megabytes and as a percentage of the total capacity.

Below the Bookshelf banner, the page is divided into two areas, each labeled with a tab:

• eBookshelf lists all of the eBook Editions currently stored on your eBook.

• Online Bookshelf lists all of the eBook Editions in your entire collection, which is kept in your personal storage area on the eBook Network, not on your eBook. Any items you purchase will always be stored here unless you delete them.

To read an eBook Edition listed on the eBookshelf tab, just tap the title. Because the eBook Edition is already stored on your eBook, it opens right away. See “Managing eBook Editions on Your eBook” for more information on working with eBook Editions on your eBook.

To read an eBook Edition listed on the Online Bookshelf tab but not yet downloaded, you must connect to the eBook Network and download the eBook Edition from the Online Bookshelf to your eBook, as described in the next section, “Managing eBook Editions on Your Online Bookshelf.”

When you receive an eBook Edition as a gift (see “The Web eBookstore”), it appears on your Online Bookshelf. After you download it to your eBookshelf and tap on the title to open it, a window appears at the top of the screen to tell you who sent your gift. This message appears only the first time you open the title, but it remains on the Information window, which you can access by tapping the icon beside the eBook Edition on your eBookshelf.

Managing eBook Editions on Your eBook

Clearing Markups Out of an eBook Edition

Making Room on Your eBook

As mentioned previously, your eBookshelf lists all the eBook Editions currently stored on your eBook. To open and read any of these, just tap its title on the list. As described in previous chapters, you can not only read these eBook Editions but also highlight text, add notes or drawings, and search for words and phrases.

Your eBook has a fixed amount of storage space devoted to the collection of books on your eBook. Though you can increase this storage space (see “Increasing the Storage Capacity of Your eBook”), you can also save space by managing the eBook Editions on your eBook efficiently. The following sections describe how to clear markups out of an eBook Edition so that it takes up less space.

• Go through the eBook Edition, page by page, and erase any unnecessary markups. (Tap the eBook icon and use the Find and Markups items on the Menu to help find and erase these.)

• Open the Information window for the eBook Edition, and clear out all the markups at once.

To clear out all the markups from an eBook Edition, follow these steps:

1. Press the Bookshelf icon to view your eBook Editions on your eBook.

2. Tap the book icon (not the title).

3. When the eBook Edition’s Information window appears, it shows how much of the total Bookshelf space is occupied by this eBook Edition and how much of that space is taken by markups. If an eBook Edition takes up 20% of the bookshelf total and markups take up 80% of the eBook Edition’s total size, you can free lots of space by clearing the markups.

4. If you do not want to keep the markups in this eBook Edition, tap Clear Markups. A confirmation message appears, asking you to confirm the removal.

5. Tap Yes to proceed. The eBook erases all the markups from this eBook Edition and then closes the Information window.

When looking for a likely eBook Edition to remove, you can judge each title’s relative size by looking at its icon. Bigger eBook Editions have fatter books as their icons; smaller eBook Editions have slimmer ones.

To remove an eBook Edition from your eBook, follow these steps:

1. On the Bookshelf page, tap the eBookshelf tab.

2. Review the eBook Editions under the eBook tab. Decide which eBook Editions you can remove from your eBook to make room for others. If you subscribe to a periodical, for example, you may decide to keep only the current issue and remove all the back issues.

3. Tap an eBook Edition’s icon to open its Information window. This window tells you how much space the eBook Edition occupies and how much of that space is used for markups.

4. If you have many markups in a large eBook Edition, you can free a lot of space by removing the markups. Tap Clear Markups on the Information window to remove the markups from the eBook Edition.

5. To remove the eBook Edition itself from your eBookshelf, tap Remove Book on the Information window. The window closes, and the eBook Edition disappears from the eBookshelf tab.

   Note	If the eBook Edition you have chosen is an issue of a periodical, you’ll be asked whether you want to remove only the selected issue or back issues as well. Tap This Issue to remove only the selected issue or This and Back Issues to remove the selected issue and all back issues.

6. Repeat this process with other eBook Editions, until you think you have enough free space for the new eBook Editions you want to add.

7. When you are finished, tap the Online Bookshelf tab to reopen it, and download the eBook Edition you want to store on your eBookshelf.

Managing eBook Editions on Your Online Bookshelf

Downloading an eBook Edition from Your Online Bookshelf

Scheduling an Automatic Connection to Your Online Bookshelf

Setting the Local Time

Setting the Auto Connect Timer

How an Automatic Connection Works

Removing eBook Editions from Your Online Bookshelf

Disconnecting from Your Online Bookshelf

The Online Bookshelf section of your eBook Bookshelf lists all the eBook Editions in your collection. These eBook Editions are kept in your personal storage area on the eBook Network, not on your eBook, so you must be connected via a telephone line or USB connection in order to work with them.

Once you connect to your Online Bookshelf, you can browse the eBook Editions in your collection and download them to your eBook for reading. You can also remove any items that you no longer want to keep.

To browse the list of books on your Online Bookshelf, follow these steps:

1. Make sure that you’re connected to either a telephone line or to a USB cable to your PC or Macintosh. (See “Connecting to the eBook Network” for more information.)

2. Press the Bookshelf icon to display the Bookshelf page.

3. Tap the Online Bookshelf tab. Your eBook connects to the eBook Network and then to your Online Bookshelf.

4. When the connection is complete, the contents of your Online Bookshelf appear—a complete listing of all the eBook Editions in your collection. If you have more titles than can be listed on one page, press the Page button to move to the next page or use the Page Slider at the bottom.

The list also includes icons that show each title’s status:

	Titles with a checkmark are currently on your eBook. You can read them whenever you want.
	Titles without a checkmark are not currently on your eBook and are stored only on your Online Bookshelf. You must download these from the Online Bookshelf to your eBook to read them.

To download an eBook Edition from your Online Bookshelf to your eBook, follow these steps:

1. Tap the title of the eBook Edition in the Online Bookshelf listing.

2. A window appears at the top of the screen, and the transfer begins. It will take a few moments to finish.

3. When the download is complete, the window closes.

4. Tap the eBookshelf tab to view your eBook contents. The eBook Edition you downloaded is now listed and ready for you to read.

Scheduling an Automatic Connection to Your Online Bookshelf

You can schedule your eBook to automatically connect to your Online Bookshelf at a specified time every day (for example, at night) and download any new eBook Editions it finds. This feature can be especially useful if you have a subscription to a periodical.

When you schedule an automatic connection, your eBook will:

• Wake up at the scheduled time each day by watching the local clock time.

• Connect to your Online Bookshelf.

• Download any new eBook Editions from your Online Bookshelf to your eBook.

• Disconnect from your Online Bookshelf and turn itself off.

Your eBook repeats these steps every day at the scheduled time until you turn the automatic connection feature off.

To schedule an automatic connection, you first need to:

• Set the clock to the correct local time.

• Set the Auto Connect clock timer to the time you want your eBook to connect.

Setting the Local Time

You might need to set the local time when you first get your eBook.

The Auto Connect feature watches the time on your local clock to determine when to wake up and connect. You may also want to reset your time to the correct current local time if you are travelling across time zones.

To set the current local time, follow these steps:

1. If you are not already at the Bookshelf page, press the Bookshelf icon.

2. In the eBook category on the eBookshelf, locate the “Settings” document, and tap its title. Alternatively, tap on the eBook icon and then tap Settings from the Menu. The Settings book for your eBook is opened.

3. From the Table of Contents, tap Time. The Time page appears.

4. Set your current local time by analog or digital control. Set the analog control as follows:

   1. To set the hour, tap the edge of the inner circle on the clock, or drag the hour hand.

   2. To set the minutes, tap the edge of the outer circle, or drag the minute hand.

   3. Tap to select AM or PM.

5. Set the digital control as follows:

   1. To set the hour, tap the hour box. Using the numeric keypad that appears on-screen, tap backspace, tap the hour, then tap enter.

   2. To set the minutes, repeat the steps you followed to set the hour.

   3. Tap to select AM or PM.

   Note	Whether you set the time by analog or digital control, the time will appear the same in both displays.

6. The new time is saved automatically when you move from this page. To set your auto connect timer from here, you only need to press the Page button forward one page.

7. Press the Bookshelf icon to return to your eBook bookshelf.

Setting the Auto Connect Timer

The auto connect timer determines when your eBook will connect and download new eBook Editions to your eBook. It relies on the local time setting to determine the current time and waits until the timer indicates that your eBook should wake up and begin.

To set the auto connect timer, follow the steps below:

1. If the Settings book is not already open or you are not already at the Bookshelf page, press the Bookshelf icon.

2. In the eBook category on the eBookshelf, locate the “Settings” document, and tap its title. Alternatively, tap on the eBook icon and then tap Settings from the Menu. The Settings book for your eBook is opened.

3. From the Table of Contents, tap Auto-connect. The Auto-Connect page appears.

4. Set your auto connect timer by analog or digital control. Set the analog control as follows:

   1. To set the hour, tap the edge of the inner circle on the clock, or drag the hour hand.

   2. To set the minutes, tap the edge of the outer circle, or drag the minute hand.

   3. Tap to select AM or PM.

5. Set the digital control as follows:

   1. To set the hour, tap the hour box. Using the numeric keypad that appears on-screen, tap backspace, tap the hour, then tap enter.

   2. To set the minutes, repeat the steps you followed to set the hour.

   3. Tap to select AM or PM.

   Note	Whether you set the time by analog or digital control, the time will appear the same in both displays.

6. The new time is saved automatically when you move from this page. (To set your current local time from here, you need to press the Page button back one page.)

7. Press the Bookshelf icon to return to your eBook bookshelf.

Within 10 minutes of the scheduled time, your eBook wakes up and connects to your Online Bookshelf.

If your eBook can’t connect for some reason (such as no dial tone or a network problem), it defers the connection until the next day. When you next turn on your eBook, it displays a message reporting the problem. (For more information, see “If an automatic connection fails” in the “Troubleshooting” section.)

Once connected, your eBook downloads any eBook Editions it finds in the New category on your Online Bookshelf. (Any eBook Edition that you have not previously downloaded to your eBook will be listed in the New category.) Your eBook downloads periodicals first, starting with the largest ones, and then downloads books and other documents, again starting with the largest. When the download is complete, or when there is no free space left, your eBook automatically disconnects and turns itself off.

When you next turn on your eBook, it displays a message window listing the eBook Editions it downloaded successfully and notifying you of any items it couldn’t download due to lack of space or for other reasons.

Your eBook repeats the automatic connection every day at the scheduled time until you disable it by unchecking the autoconnect setting.

To remove an eBook Edition from your Online Bookshelf:

1. On the Bookshelf page, tap the Online Bookshelf tab to connect to your Online Bookshelf on the eBook Network. (You will need to be connected to a phone line or USB cable to your computer for this.)

2. When your Online Bookshelf appears, tap the circle next to an eBook Edition to open its Information window. (Do not tap the title, as that will transfer the eBook Edition to your eBook.)

3. When the Information window appears, tap Remove Book to remove the eBook Edition (or Remove Issue if it’s an issue of a periodical).

    

   Note	If the eBook Edition you have chosen to remove is an issue of a periodical, you’ll also be asked whether you want to remove only the selected issue or back issues as well. Tap This Issue to remove only the selected issue or This and Back Issues to remove the selected issue and all back issues.

4. You’ll be asked to confirm that you want to remove this item. If you want to remove this eBook Edition permanently, tap Yes. The eBook Edition is removed from your Online Bookshelf.

Disconnecting from Your Online Bookshelf

If you’re connected to a telephone line, your eBook will disconnect itself from the eBook Network after two minutes of inactivity. If you want to disconnect immediately, press the eBook icon and then tap Disconnect on the Menu, or just unplug the phone cord.

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