Kobo Arc 7 User manual

User guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting Started..................................................................................................................... 7!
Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7............................................................................................8!
Charging your Kobo Arc 7................................................................................................9!
Putting your Kobo Arc 7 to sleep and waking it up .........................................................9!
Using the touch screen....................................................................................................11!
Unlocking the screen ..................................................................................................... 12!
Using apps or widgets.................................................................................................... 13!
Adding or removing other users.................................................................................... 15!
Changing your user profile image ................................................................................. 17!
Using Wi Fi..................................................................................................................... 17!
Adding items from your computer ................................................................................ 18!
Navigating on your Kobo Arc 7......................................................................................20!
Customizing your Quick Launch Bar............................................................................. 21!
Using your Apps & Widgets page ..................................................................................22!
Using Collections ...............................................................................................................24!
About collections............................................................................................................24!
Managing your personal collections..............................................................................25!
Moving round in a collection.........................................................................................28!
Adding items to a personal collection ...........................................................................28!
Resizing items ................................................................................................................30!
Removing items from a personal collection.................................................................. 31!
Using apps .........................................................................................................................32!
About your Kobo Arc 7 and apps ...................................................................................32!
Setting up the Email app ...............................................................................................32!
Browsing the web...........................................................................................................35!
Listening to music..........................................................................................................35!

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Viewing images and video .............................................................................................36!
Adding eBooks or eMagazines to Your Kobo Arc 7...........................................................38!
Finding new eBooks or eMagazines ..............................................................................38!
Buying an eBook or eMagazine ..................................................................................... 41!
Adding eBooks from other sources................................................................................42!
Adding library eBooks ...................................................................................................44!
Reading on your Kobo Arc 7.............................................................................................. 45!
Syncing your Library over Wi Fi....................................................................................45!
Downloading books or magazines.................................................................................46!
Opening a book, magazine or Pocket article .................................................................47!
Navigating a book ..........................................................................................................49!
Navigating a magazine...................................................................................................50!
Guided reading for magazines....................................................................................... 51!
Closing a book or magazine ...........................................................................................52!
Changing your Reading Experience .................................................................................. 55!
Changing text size and style........................................................................................... 55!
Changing the page theme ..............................................................................................56!
Using night reading mode ............................................................................................. 57!
Adjusting screen brightness while reading ................................................................... 57!
Rotating the page orientation (portrait vs landscape)..................................................58!
Adding Notes, Bookmarks, and Looking Up Words.........................................................60!
Highlighting text ............................................................................................................60!
Adding notes .................................................................................................................. 61!
Bookmarking pages........................................................................................................62!
Looking up words...........................................................................................................63!
Troubleshooting................................................................................................................. 65!
Troubleshooting apps and widgets................................................................................65!

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Troubleshooting Wi Fi issues ........................................................................................68!
Restart your Kobo Arc 7................................................................................................. 71!
Getting Help....................................................................................................................... 72!

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Welcome!
Thank you for purchasing a Kobo Arc 7.
Your Kobo Arc 7 is a new breed of Android tablet, designed by and for readers. You’ll
find the comfortable, award-winning reading experience you’ve come to expect from
Kobo, alongside the best of Android.
The Kobo Arc 7 also brings a powerful new way to collect and manage content, whether
it’s from the Internet, favorite apps, or your other devices—your personal collections—
for fun, for work, or just because!
With your Kobo Arc 7, you’ll also be able to take advantage of Kobo’s Featured
Collections. These collections are all about your favorite authors and books—ideas,
background, themes, related books, videos, quotes and more. Join us in discovering
more about the books you love.
This User Guide will walk you through everything you need to know to customize and
use your new tablet. We hope you enjoy your Kobo Arc 7.

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Kobo Arc 7 Basics
Getting started

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Getting Started
What’s in this section:
•Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7
•Charging your Kobo Arc 7
•Putting your Kobo Arc 7 to sleep and waking it up
•Using the touch screen
•Unlocking the screen
•Using apps or widgets
•Adding or removing other users
•Changing your user profile image
•Using Wi Fi
•Adding items from your computer
•Navigating on your Kobo Arc 7
•Customizing your Quick Launch Bar
•Using your Apps & Widgets page

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Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7
Where you’ll find …
a. On / Off slider
Turn your Kobo Arc 7 on or off, or put it to sleep.
b. Camera
Take pictures or video with apps like Skype.
c. Volume button
Press the volume button to increase or decrease the audio volume.
d. Microphone
Connect to a microphone to add live sound to video or apps like Skype.
e. USB port
Connect the included power adapter to charge your Kobo Arc 7, or use
a Micro USB/USB connector to transfer files to your tablet.

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HDMI
Connect your Kobo Arc 7 with an HDMI-enabled device like a
television and live-stream images or video.
f. Headphone jack
Connect a pair of headphones to listen to music, video, and audio
books.
Charging your Kobo Arc 7
We recommend you fully charge your Kobo Arc 7 when you take it out of the box for the
first time. To charge your Kobo Arc 7, attach the included wall charger to the Micro USB
port at the right of your Kobo Arc 7 and plug it into a wall outlet.
You can always see how much charge your Kobo Arc 7 has using the battery icon at the
top right corner of the screen. A white thunderbolt symbol within the battery icon
means that your Kobo Arc 7 is charging. If you see a red line at the bottom of the battery
icon, or a red thunderbolt symbol within the battery icon, it means your battery is low
and you should charge your Kobo Arc 7 immediately.
Note: Always use the included wall charger to charge your Kobo Arc 7; it may not
charge at all or charge very slowly if you use a computer and USB cable.
Putting your Kobo Arc 7 to sleep and waking it up
You can turn your Kobo Arc 7 off or put it to sleep when you’re not reading. Both help
your battery last longer. When your Kobo Arc 7 is asleep it still uses a little power, and
when it’s off, there’s no drain on the battery.
When you put your Kobo Arc 7 to sleep and then wake it up, it only takes a few seconds
to go back to the last screen you saw, which could be a page in a book, your collections

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page, or one of your apps. If you turn your Kobo Arc 7 off, you’ll go back to your Home
page when you turn it on again, and it can take up to 25 seconds to restart.
To turn your Kobo Arc 7 on:
•Pull the power slider to the right for a few seconds, then release it.
You’ll see a blinking blue light beside the power button while your Kobo Arc 7 is turning
on.
To turn off your Kobo Arc 7:
1. Pull the power slider to the right until a prompt appears.
2. Tap Power off.
3. Tap OK.
To put your Kobo Arc 7 to sleep:
•Briefly pull the power slider to the right and release it.
The screen will turn off.
To wake up your Kobo Arc 7:
•Briefly pull the power slider to the right and release it.