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Short answers for owners of an e-reader with PaperPaw. PaperPaw is a beta: these pages are for version 0.6.0-beta.1.

Every topic

Getting started

• What you need
• Put PaperPaw on your reader
• Prepare the memory card
• The first start: the setup guide
• The buttons of the X4
• The home screen
• More plugins and updates

Reading

• Turning pages
• The reading menu
• Text size and font
• Sharper or softer letters
• Page refresh and ghosting
• Bookmarks, highlights and notes
• The quick panel
• Which books it opens

Library

• What you see
• Find a book
• Open and manage a book
• New books
• A big library, the first time

Settings

• Open and use the settings
• The groups
• Reading
• Text
• Layout and hyphenation
• Display
• Library
• Display
• Sleep screen
• Controls
• Wi-Fi
• Power
• Date and time
• System
• Screen lock
• Updates
• Set up PaperPaw and About PaperPaw
• Appearance and Customise
• Restart and reset

Plugins and the store

• What plugins are
• What comes with PaperPaw and what you can add
• Install a plugin
• Update plugins
• Remove or switch off a plugin
• Safe mode
• Plugins from paperpaw.org and from the community
• Why a plugin with code fits one reader and one version
• Room for plugins with code
• Plugins on the memory card
• Language packs

Fonts and languages

• Choose a font
• The fonts that come with PaperPaw
• Literata bold and italic
• More fonts
• Your own fonts
• On the X4 and X4 Pro
• On Android and in the emulator
• Other scripts
• Languages of the menus

Wi-Fi and transfer

• Join a network
• Set up with a phone
• What the reader tells you
• Wi-Fi comes and goes by itself
• Send books over Wi-Fi
• Without a router
• Catalogs
• Wireless library
• Progress sync
• Privacy
• On Android

Power and sleep

• The Power button
• Sleeping and waking
• Switching off after sleeping
• Power mode
• Wi-Fi switches itself off
• The front light (X4 Pro)
• Charging and the battery
• When the battery is low
• Saving battery
• The reader will not wake or start

Troubleshooting

• The reader does not start
• The memory card
• The library is empty or a book is missing
• The text looks wrong
• Power and sleep
• Wi-Fi
• Few plugins fit on my X4
• Still stuck?

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