Kobo Arc 7HDHD User manual

User guide

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Getting Started.....................................................................................................................7!
Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7HD ..................................................................................... 8!
Charging your Kobo Arc 7HD ..........................................................................................9!
Putting your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD ............................................................................... 20!
Customizing your Quick Launch Bar............................................................................. 21!
Using your Apps & Widgets page...................................................................................23!
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 ................................................................................................................ 31!
Removing items from a personal collection .................................................................. 31!
Using apps..........................................................................................................................32!
About your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD .....................................................38!
Finding new eBooks or eMagazines.............................................................................. 38!
Buying an eBook or eMagazine...................................................................................... 41!
Adding eBooks from other sources............................................................................... 43!
Adding library eBooks................................................................................................... 44!
Reading on your Kobo Arc 7HD ........................................................................................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 7HD ........................................................................................... 71!
Getting Help.......................................................................................................................72!

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Welcome!
Thank you for purchasing a Kobo Arc 7HDHD.
Your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD 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 7HD, 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 7HD.

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Kobo Arc 7HD
Basics
Getting started

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Getting Started
What’s in this section:
•Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7HD
•Charging your Kobo Arc 7HD
•Putting your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD
•Customizing your Quick Launch Bar
•Using your Apps & Widgets page

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Anatomy of your Kobo Arc 7HD
Where you’ll find …
a. On / Off slider
Turn your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD, or
use a Micro USB/USB connector to transfer files to your tablet.

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HDMI
Connect your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD
We recommend you fully charge your Kobo Arc 7HD when you take it out of the box for
the first time. To charge your Kobo Arc 7HD, attach the included wall charger to the
Micro USB port at the right of your Kobo Arc 7HD and plug it into a wall outlet.
You can always see how much charge your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD 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 7HD immediately.
Note: Always use the included wall charger to charge your Kobo Arc 7HD; it may not
charge at all or charge very slowly if you use a computer and USB cable.
Putting your Kobo Arc 7HD to sleep and waking it up
You can turn your Kobo Arc 7HD off or put it to sleep when you’re not reading. Both
help your battery last longer. When your Kobo Arc 7HD 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 7HD 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 page, or one of your apps. If you turn your Kobo Arc 7HD off, you’ll go back

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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 7HD 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 7HD is
turning on.
To turn off your Kobo Arc 7HD:
1. Pull the power slider to the right until a prompt appears.
2. Tap Power off.
3. Tap OK.
To put your Kobo Arc 7HD to sleep:
•Briefly pull the power slider to the right and release it.
The screen will turn off.
To wake up your Kobo Arc 7HD:
•Briefly pull the power slider to the right and release it.