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Table of Contents
1 Preface ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
2 Guidelines ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
3 Precautions ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5
4 Components ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6
5 Boox M91S View .................................................................................................................................................................. 7
6 User Interface ...................................................................................................................................................................... 11
6.1 Main View ................................................................................................................................................................ 11
6.1.1 Library ........................................................................................................................................................... 12
6.1.2 SD Card ......................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.1.3 Recent Document .......................................................................................................................................... 14
6.1.4 Shortcuts ........................................................................................................................................................ 15
6.1.5 Settings .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
6.1.5.1 Date .................................................................................................................................................... 18
6.1.5.2 Time Zone .......................................................................................................................................... 19
6.1.5.3 Locale ................................................................................................................................................. 20
6.1.5.4 Format Flash ....................................................................................................................................... 21
6.1.5.5 Default Font ....................................................................................................................................... 22
6.1.5.6 Preferred Applications........................................................................................................................ 23
6.1.5.7 Start Setting ........................................................................................................................................ 24
6.1.5.8 Screen Update .................................................................................................................................... 25
6.1.5.9 About .................................................................................................................................................. 26
6.1.6 Games ............................................................................................................................................................ 27
6.1.7 Applications .................................................................................................................................................. 32
6.2 Navigation Bar ......................................................................................................................................................... 34
6.3 Tool Bar ................................................................................................................................................................... 35
6.3.1 Menu Button .................................................................................................................................................. 35
6.3.2 Progress Bar .................................................................................................................................................. 36
6.3.3 Power Indicator ............................................................................................................................................. 37
6.4 Menu ........................................................................................................................................................................ 37
6.4.1 Screen Rotation ............................................................................................................................................. 37
6.4.2 Save Remove SD Card .................................................................................................................................. 37
6.4.3 Music ............................................................................................................................................................. 37
6.4.4 Standby .......................................................................................................................................................... 37
6.4.5 Shutdown ....................................................................................................................................................... 37
6.4.6 View .............................................................................................................................................................. 38
6.4.6.1 List View ............................................................................................................................................ 38
6.4.6.2 Details View ....................................................................................................................................... 39
6.4.6.3 Thumbnail View ................................................................................................................................. 40
6.4.6.4 Sorting types ....................................................................................................................................... 41
6.4.6.4(1) by Name , by Type , by Size, by Access Time ,by Ascending, by Descending. ..................... 41
6.4.7 File ................................................................................................................................................................. 44
6.4.7.1 Delete ................................................................................................................................................. 45
6.4.7.2 Search ................................................................................................................................................. 46
6.4.8 Settings .......................................................................................................................................................... 47
6.4.9 Font ............................................................................................................................................................... 48
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6.4.9.1 By Ratio ............................................................................................................................................. 48
6.4.9.2 By Numbers ....................................................................................................................................... 49
6.4.9.3 Bold/ Italic .......................................................................................................................................... 50
6.4.10 Zooming ...................................................................................................................................................... 51
6.4.10.1 To Page ............................................................................................................................................. 52
6.4.10.2 To Width .......................................................................................................................................... 52
6.4.10.3 To Height ......................................................................................................................................... 52
6.4.10.4 Hide Margin ..................................................................................................................................... 52
6.4.10.5 By Ratio ........................................................................................................................................... 53
6.4.11 Layout ......................................................................................................................................................... 54
6.4.12.1 Single Page ....................................................................................................................................... 54
6.4.12.2 Scroll Pages ...................................................................................................................................... 55
6.4.13 Tools ............................................................................................................................................................ 56
6.4.13.1 Search ............................................................................................................................................... 57
6.4.13.2 Dictionary Lookup ........................................................................................................................... 59
6.4.13.3 Text to Speech .................................................................................................................................. 61
6.4.13.4 Slide show ........................................................................................................................................ 63
6.4.13.5 Add Bookmark ................................................................................................................................. 63
6.4.13.6 Delete Bookmark.............................................................................................................................. 64
6.4.13.7 Show Bookmarks ............................................................................................................................. 65
6.4.13.8 Previous View .................................................................................................................................. 65
6.4.13.9 Next View ........................................................................................................................................ 65
6.4.13.10 Table of Content ............................................................................................................................. 66
6.4.14 Font Family ................................................................................................................................................. 67
6.4.15 Encoding ..................................................................................................................................................... 68
6.4.16 Full Screen Change Switch ......................................................................................................................... 69
6.5 Music Player ............................................................................................................................................................. 69
6.5.1 Playlist ........................................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.2 Minimize Button ........................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.3 Close Button .................................................................................................................................................. 70
6.5.4 Repeat Playlist Button ................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.5 Shuffle Switch Button ................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.6 Previous Song Button .................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.7 Play/Pause Switch Button ............................................................................................................................. 70
6.5.8 Stop Button .................................................................................................................................................... 70
6.5.9 Next Song Button .......................................................................................................................................... 71
6.5.10 Repeat Current Song Button ....................................................................................................................... 71
6.5.11 Previous Page Button .................................................................................................................................. 71
6.5.12 Next Page Button ........................................................................................................................................ 71
7 Software Update .................................................................................................................................................................. 72
8 Connect to PC ..................................................................................................................................................................... 73
9 Others .................................................................................................................................................................................. 74
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1 Preface
B
oox is presented by Onyx International, which has a group of professionals
The beauty of the Boox is embodied in both its simplicity and its power. As
we are going to show you, Boox is an open and flexible platform for both consumers and
content providers.
Boox is powered by an 8-level grayscale e-ink screen that looks and feels like paper.
Passive lighting and diffuse surface relaxes your eyes and reduces eye strain. By the
hand-writing system, you can take notes while reading and sketch up ideas that happen to
emerge. Boox takes full advantage of new-generation e-ink screens: extremely low power
consumption. Each full charge can sustain a few weeks' reading. By reducing paper
consumption while providing a realistic paper-like reading experience, digital content helps
Boox comes with viewers for most popular ebook and image formats, including PDF,
HTML, CHM, EPub, TXT, DOC and MobiPocket(NON-DRM). For content partners, we
also provide support for custom formats and digital rights management solutions. All of our
viewers have standard features such as layout management, font adjustment, full text search,
For a next-generation information device, connectivity is essential. The user can connect to
the Internet by build-in WiFi, 3G module or other add-on modules to download new content
or surf the web. Customized for the e-ink screen, WebKit, the same software engine as
some powerful desktop browsers such as Safari and Chrome, is the web browser of Boox.
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2 Guidelines
The product should only be used in the manner described in this manual.
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The outer layer of the display is scratch resistant, but it can still be damaged if handled
roughly.
3 Precautions
Avoid applying excessive force to the display. The device uses a glass-based display is thus
Never open the device as this will invalidate any warranty or manufacturer’s responsibility.
Please contact your Onyx retailer when you have any technical difficulties.
Do NOT expose the device to excessive moisture, rain or heat sources caused by heating
equipment.
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4 Components
4.4 Cover
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MENU
BACK 5-way
Infrared
Sensor
PREV Key
NEXT
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Keys Function
capacitive key
Bottom View
Power On/Off
button
Volume Control SD Card Slot
button Earphone USB
Jack Jack
Microphone
Volume Control
button Increase/Decrease the volume by pressing Vol+/Vol-
Power On/Off
button Press to turn on/off the power;
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Back View
Speaker
RESET button
RESET button Reset the device by small pin through the hole.
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6 User Interface
Like the desktop of the most popular PC OS, main view of Boox provides entries to access
6.1.1 Library
Select the Library (Internal Flash) icon, all of the items stored in internal flash are
displayed.
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6.1.2 SD Card
Select the SD Card icon, all of the items stored in SD card are displayed.
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Select the Recent Document icon, all of the recent read documents are displayed.
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6. 1.4 Shortcuts
6.1.4(1) Select the shortcuts icon , all of the shortcuts are displayed .
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6.1.5 Settings
Select Settings button, you can enter the device settings view. Now the icons of Date, Time
Zone, Locale, Power Management, Stylus calibration, Format Flash, Default Font, Preferred
Applications, Startup Setting, Screen Update and About view are listed here.
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6.1.5.1 Date
Select the Date button in settings, you can set current date (year, month, day) and time
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6.1.5.3 Locale
Select the Locale Button in settings; you can set the current operation language of the
device.
Select Format Flash button in settings, you can format the internal flash. Note, after doing
The fronts including the system fronts can be customized, you can also add desired front
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You can select different applications for reading, such as Pdf Reader and FB Reader. FB
Reader is suggested for reading pure texts; while Office Reader(Picsel File Viewer)is
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Customize your boot option; select opening recently read documents or opening the main
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Set the refreshing rates, make full screen refreshing after reading certain amount of pages,
6.1.5.9 About
Select About button to see the information of Onyx International and Onyx’s partners.
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6.1.6 Games
Sudoku means no the same digits in the same row nor column. That’s the rule of that game.
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When click on the MENU button or key MENU is activated, the dialog is presented, you
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Figure out which grid and which digits assigned to the grid where the background is gray,
and then move to that grid and press Key “OK”, there come a dialog. If you’re sure what
digit the grid’s value should be, choose the digit on the left side otherwise you may label it
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Sudoku rules
- Sudoku is played over a 9x9 grid, divided to 3x3 sub grids called "regions":
- Sudoku begins with some of the grid cells already filled with numbers:
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- The object of Sudoku is to fill the other empty cells with numbers between 1 and 9 (1 number
only in each cell) according the following guidelines:
- A summary of these guidelines would be, that a number should appear only once on each row,
column and a region.
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6.1.7 Applications
In these Applications, you can find the Calendar, Clock such apps. More applications will be added soon after.
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Navigation bar displays the path of document. Each folder in this path is displayed as a
button. You can jump into any parent folder by clicking the button.
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Select the Menu button then the menu pops up. Most of the operations to Boox should be
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6.3.2 Progress bar displays the reading progress of viewing documents. The number of
current page and the total pages are displayed on the right of the progress bar. Clicking or
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6.4 Menu
Rotate the screen by clicking this button. The screen rotates between 0° and 270°
(counterclockwise).
6.4.3 Music
6.4.4 Standby
Turn Boox into standby status by clicking this button. Once standby, Boox stops working
and screen saver (pictures) appears. Boox consumes very little power while standing by.
Pressing any key can wake up the device from standby status.
6.4.5 Shutdown
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6.4.6 View
View means the way of displaying and arranging contents in main view.
Display the contents by listing. The name, type, size and last access time of the document
are displayed.
Display the contents in details. The details includes name, last access time, read count and
reading progress.
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Display the contents in thumbnails. For image format (including JPEG/BMP/PNG/…), the
thumbnail of image is displayed. For other document format, the large icon of the format is
displayed.
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Ascending , by Descending .
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6.4.6.4(2) in List View also can use stylus to sort the files by Name , Type, Size ,Last
Access bar .
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6.4.7 File
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6.4.7.1 Delete
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6.4.7.2 Search
Search for target file by given pattern. The search results are displayed in the main view.
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6.4.8 Settings
Settings in menu are identical with the Setting button in main view. Please refer to 6.1.5 for
details.
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6.4.9 Font
6.4.9.1 By Ratio
Configure the font size by several font levels: 100% to 500%. This function is activated
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6.4.9.2 By Numbers
Configure the font size by actually number. This function is activated while viewing
TXT/Mobi(non-drm)/DOC document.
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6.4.10 Zooming
Adjust the zoom of current screen. The screen can be scaled by fixed value (such as
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6.4.10.1 To Page
6.4.10.2 To Width
6.4.10.3 To Height
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6.4.10.5 By Ratio
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6.4.11 Layout
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Multiple pages can be displayed on screen. If there are enough blanks besides one page on
the screen, the parts of adjacent pages fill these blanks. There is a small spacing between
two pages.
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6.4.13 Tools
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6.4.13.1 Search
Search for the pattern in current document. The search results in a screen are highlighted.
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6.4.13.3 (1) Select Text to Speech icon , it will start to speak from first line of each page .
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6.4.13.3 (2) select this setting menu to set speaker, speed and style.
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Continuously display the pages of a document (or documents, e.g. images files) by slide
show.
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Show all bookmarks in a list view. The front text portion as well as the number of the
bookmarked page is displayed in an item. You can jump to the target page by selecting the
bookmark item.
Select previous/next view to retrace the path within a document. Select item Previous View
Select item Next View to go to next screen while browsing document. This button is
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Display the table of content of current document by list view. You can jump to a target page
by selecting an item.
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Configure the font family while viewing a document. The existing font families of Boox are
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6.4.15 Encoding
Configure the encoding type while viewing text-based document. The configurable
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6.5.1 Playlist
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7 Software Update
Make sure the updates package is located at the root directory of the SD card. The name
should be ‘onyx_update.upd’.
Restart Boox, press and hold the OK button. NOTE, the OK button should be pressed
before the device restarts. Hold it until you see the message ‘Software update request
Reminder: Make sure Boox has enough power to finish the software update (at least 2 grids
displayed).
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8 Connect to PC
Boox can be easily connected to PC by USB cable. A dialog pops up immediately after the
You can find at least one removable disk (internal flash of Boox) on the OS of PC. If you
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9 Others
Components:
Onyx BOOX E-book Reader, Power Adapter, USB Cable, Quick Start Guide, Warranty Card,
Protective Case, Stylus (Boox M91S without touch panel and stylus).
1 Turn On
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Press the power key and hold for 2 to 3 seconds;
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See the opening logo interface on the screen, waiting for the progress bar finished at the
bottom of the screen.
2 Battery Recharge
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BOOX can be recharged by power adapter;
Connect the BOOX to adapter by USB cable;
Charging time approx 3 hours;
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BOOX also can be charged by USB cable directly;
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BOOX can be connected to PC by USB cable.
3 Connection to PC
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Boox can be easily connected to PC by USB cable;
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A dialog pops up immediately after the connection. Select “Yes” to confirm the connection;
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Click “My Computer” to see the content of memory card and SD card on the screen.
4 Turn Off
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Select Menu, then click shutdown;
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Or press and hold for 2 seconds the power on/off button.
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