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Mantano Reader Premium
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Table of contents
1
Introduction ................................................................................. 7
2
Mantano Reader Premium modules ........................................ 9
2.1
Global structure of the “Books” and “Notes” modules ........................... 9
2.1.1
The header ........................................................................................................ 11
2.1.2
The toolbar ........................................................................................................ 11
2.2
Common commands for books and annotations lists ........................... 12
2.2.1
When no item is selected ............................................................................... 12
2.2.2
When items are selected ................................................................................ 13
2.3
Classifying and indexing the books and notes ...................................... 14
2.3.1
How to associate tags to an element? .......................................................... 14
2.3.2
How to create a collection or a sub-collection? ...........................................15
2.3.3
How to add an item to a collection? .............................................................. 17
2.4
Browsing the lists by using filters ........................................................ 18
2.5
How to delete items in lists? ............................................................... 19
2.5.1
How to search items in lists? ......................................................................... 19
2.6
“Books”: managing your library .......................................................... 20
2.6.1
Managing your list of documents .................................................................. 20
2.6.2
How to read an eBook or a PDF document? ................................................21
2.6.3
How to share an eBook or a PDF document?...............................................21
2.6.4
How to change the cover or a metadata (title, authors,…) of an item .....22
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2.6.5
How to reattach a filte to a book ................................................................... 22
2.7
“Notes”: managing your notes and annotations ................................... 23
2.7.1
Managing your list of notes ............................................................................ 24
2.7.1.1
Available options when no item is selected ..............................24
2.7.1.2
Available options when one or more items are selected .........24
2.7.2
How to create a note? ..................................................................................... 25
2.7.3
How to share a note?....................................................................................... 25
2.8
The « Stores » module......................................................................... 25
3
What can I do with Mantano Reader .....................................27
3.1
Reading PDF / EPUB eBooks or documents ......................................... 27
3.1.1
Browsing through the document pages ........................................................ 27
3.1.2
Setting the display options with gestures..................................................... 27
3.1.2.1
3.1.3
3.1.4
Tips to read PDF documents ....................................................... 28
Using the reading functions ........................................................................... 28
3.1.3.1
Night mode and custom themes ................................................32
3.1.3.2
Editing bookmarks to create your own Table of Content ........32
3.1.3.3
Highlighting text in a PDF or an EPUB document ....................32
3.1.3.4
Using the Text to Speech option ................................................. 37
3.1.3.5
Looking for a word in the book ................................................... 39
3.1.3.6
Using a dictionary in the reader ................................................. 40
3.1.3.7
Display settings ............................................................................ 41
Creating and editing a note ............................................................................ 45
3.1.4.1
Creating a freehand note ............................................................. 46
3.1.4.2
Creating a text note ...................................................................... 47
3.1.4.3
Editing a note ................................................................................ 48
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3.1.5
Using the dictionary and the personal lexicon .............................................49
3.1.5.1
Searching a word in dictionnaries ..............................................49
3.1.5.2
Setting my embedded dictionaries.............................................52
3.1.5.3
Using my personal lexicon .......................................................... 52
3.2
Sharing books, selected text and annotations through my other
applications .................................................................................................... 53
3.2.1
Sharing books................................................................................................... 54
3.2.2
Sharing selected text or highlights ................................................................ 54
3.2.3
Sharing notes ................................................................................................... 54
3.2.4
Comment notes ................................................................................................ 55
3.3
Exporting a note synthesis .................................................................. 57
3.4
Setting my preferences ....................................................................... 57
3.4.1
Setting my Adobe Ids ...................................................................................... 58
3.4.2
Books settings .................................................................................................. 59
3.4.3
Reader settings ................................................................................................ 60
3.4.4
Dictionaries settings ........................................................................................ 61
3.4.4.1
Downloading embedded dictionaries ........................................61
3.4.5
User interface settings .................................................................................... 62
3.4.6
Do you need help using Mantano Reader? ................................................... 63
3.4.6.1
Using Mantano Support ............................................................... 63
3.4.6.2
Downloading the latest user manual .........................................63
4
Mantano Cloud ..........................................................................64
4.1
Subscribing to Mantano Cloud ............................................................ 64
4.1.1
Creating my Account ....................................................................................... 64
4.1.2
Subscribing ....................................................................................................... 65
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4.1.2.1
Paying through the Paypal system .............................................65
4.2
How to start using Sync in Mantano Reader? ....................................... 66
4.2.1
On device A (one of your devices) ................................................................. 66
4.2.2
On device B (another of your devices) .......................................................... 67
4.3
In Mantano Cloud, show your documents and annotations: .................. 68
4.3.1
Managing items in Mantano Cloud ................................................................ 68
4.3.1.1
Filtering the displayed items according to their status in
Mantano Cloud ................................................................................................ 68
4.3.1.2
Synchronizing items to Mantano Cloud .....................................69
4.3.1.3
Archiving items in Mantano Cloud .............................................69
4.3.1.4
Removing items from Mantano Cloud .......................................70
4.3.1.5
Synchronizing reading status and annotations beetween
devices for DRM protected books ................................................................. 70
4.4
Setting the Synchronization options in Mantano Reader ...................... 71
4.5
Showing my books and annotations in Mantano Cloud ......................... 71
4.5.1
Using filters ...................................................................................................... 72
4.5.2
Showing and managing my books ................................................................. 72
4.5.3
Showing and managing my annotations ....................................................... 72
4.6
Sharing books and social reading ........................................................ 73
4.6.1
Sharing and unsharing books......................................................................... 73
4.6.1.1
From Mantano reader .................................................................. 73
4.6.1.2
From the Mantano Cloud website ..............................................74
4.6.2
Seeing others’ annotations while I read a book ...........................................75
4.7
Managing my contacts ........................................................................ 75
4.7.1
Adding contacts ............................................................................................... 75
4.7.2
Accepting or declining friend requests ......................................................... 76
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4.8
4.7.2.1
From Mantano Reader ................................................................. 76
4.7.2.2
From Mantano Cloud.................................................................... 76
Accepting or declining sharing ............................................................ 76
4.8.1.1
From Mantano Reader ................................................................. 76
4.8.1.2
From Mantano Cloud.................................................................... 77
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1 Introduction
Mantano Reader for Android is a powerful and user-friendly reader application for PDF
and EPUB documents, supporting the Adobe DRM technology. It is compatible with any
Android 4.0+ smartphone and tablet.
The Premium Edition includes a full feature set to make your reading memorable:
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Advanced document navigation (synchronized Table Of Contents, Bookmarks,
full-text search…)
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Highlights, underlines, cross out, text and graphical annotations
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Online and offline dictionaries, personal lexicon
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Text-To-Speech
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Advanced PDF support, including automatic and manual margins removal,
width adjustment to one column for multi-column documents, zooming and
shifting (Pan & Zoom)...
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Advanced EPUB support, including customizable themes, Day / Night switching and zoom in pictures
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Customizable gestures
Some management functions such as Collections, Tags, Filters and Search help you to
easily organize and find your books and annotations.
Any special thought while you are reading? Any interesting excerpt in your document? A
comment to add? The Annotation features will give you the opportunity to highlight an
excerpt and optionally attach a comment or sketch.
Mantano Reader is compatible with the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS)
catalog standard. This means that you can easily browse through hundreds of online
free or paid catalogs such as the Internet Archive or arXiv, and download any electronic
book you discover into your personal Library. Mantano Reader comes with a few famous
OPDS catalogs predefined but you can also very easily add and manage your favorites
OPDS “feeds”.
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Mantano Reader is compatible with Mantano Cloud (http://cloud.mantano.com). Create
an account on Mantano Cloud and:
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Switch between your phone and tablet and always find your books, annotations, notes, reading positions along with you
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Transform your books and documents into digital reading circles by sharing
annotations and learn from each others' experience.
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See notes from your contacts during your reading
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Comment the notes of others
o
Include notes of others in your review sheets (Premium version only)
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2 Mantano Reader Premium modules
Mantano Reader Premium provides access to Home screen and 3 main modules:
Books / Notes / Stores
You can navigate between them thanks to the tabs in the header area.
The home screen
It offers quick access to:
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Your friend requests to accept
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Your current reading
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Pending invitations to "shared reading" that was sent to you
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The new books from one of our partner bookstores
2.1 Global structure of the “Books” and “Notes”
modules
The “Books” and “Notes” modules are very similar with respect to their structure and
behavior. They include:
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A header which contains controls to change the sort criterion and order and to
select items, an information label on the current filter and the number of available elements;
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A central area, which contains a list of items. The way these items are displayed can be changed, from a list with detailed information to a simpler view
with only covers and titles;
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A toolbar at the bottom;
•
A retractable filters panel on the left that allows direct access by collection, tag,
author, format ...
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2.1.1 The header
Two display options (sort criterion / order) and one selection control are present in this
header, just below the tabs, as explained in the following table:
Icon
Function / Operation
Change the display order in an ascending or descending
order
Sort the displayed list by the title, author or other criteria for
which an alphabetical order applies
Select / unselect all items
2.1.2 The toolbar
The toolbar contains icons that allow triggering general operations, such as adding new
books, changing the display mode or the items order…
The toolbar is located at the bottom of the display, on both smartphones and tablets:
Caution: The toolbar can scroll horizontally. On small displays, not all the options
can be visible at the same time. In such a case, scrolling with a lateral swipe on the
toolbar will reveal more options.
Hint: You can click on the “Search” button of your device (if any) to quickly access
the search option of the active module.
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Some functions apply to specific items: classify, tag, remove, etc… They are accessible
only when they can apply, i.e. when at least one item is selected.
•
The “general toolbar” buttons are replaced by the available options, and is also
scrollable if the display is too small to display all the options available:
2.2 Common commands for books and annotations
lists
2.2.1 When no item is selected
Icon
Function / Operation
Change the display mode (Chose the “List”, “Details”,
“Thumbnails”…)
Please refer to “2.5.1 How to search items in lists?” section
Please refer to the “4.3.1.1 Filtering the displayed items
according to their status in Mantano Cloud” section
Please refer to the “4.2 How to start using Sync in Mantano
Reader?” section
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Allows you to access the application’s settings, including
preferences such as: Adobe DRM, Labels of Buttons, Library, Reading, Dictionaries…
Access to Customer Support sections
2.2.2 When items are selected
Icon
Function / Operation
Please refer to “3.2 Sharing books, selected text and annotations
through my other applications” to know more about the Share functions.
Please refer to the “2.5 How to delete items in lists?” section
Add tags to one or several items in the same time. Please refer to
the “2.3 Classifying and indexing the books and notes” section.
Arrange
Please refer to the “2.3 Classifying and indexing the books and
notes” section
Remove from a collection
Please refer to the “2.3 Classifying and indexing the books and
notes” section
Please refer to the “4.3.1.3 Archiving items in Mantano Cloud”
section
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Please refer to the “4.3.1.2 Synchronizing items to Mantano Cloud”
section
Please refer to the “4.3.1.4 Removing items from Mantano Cloud”
section
2.3 Classifying and indexing the books and notes
You can organize and classify your contents in order to quickly retrieve a specific element thanks to two slightly different tools: tags and collections. Both are additional
pieces of information (meta-data) associated to a book or a note:
•
A tag is an arbitrary string label and can be associated with several elements;
•
A collection is like a tag, an arbitrary string label and can be associated with
several elements. However:
o
Unlike tags, a collection can contain sub-collections: collections allow to create arbitrarily nested structures
o
An element (book or note) can be inserted into several collections.
Like other metadata, tags and collections can be renamed (see “Using filters” below).
2.3.1 How to associate tags to an element?
Tags are created on the fly, when they are associated to an element. Managing the tags
associated to an element is straightforward:
•
Click on
popup:
under the document title to open the Tags Management
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•
Enter the tag name. While you type, Mantano Reader suggests existing tag
names. You can select one of them to use an existing tag, or type a new tag
name.
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Click on the Add icon
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Click on the Close button to validate and save
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The new tag will be added to the item’s tag list
•
To delete a tag, simply click on
located close to the tag name.
2.3.2 How to create a collection or a sub-collection?
While tags are created on the fly when you associate them with elements, collections
can be created on the fly too, but they can also be created beforehand, before associating elements to them. There are several possible ways to create a collection:
•
By pressing the «Plus» icon under the “My collections” label in the left column
of the “Books” or “Notes” sections on tablets, or in the “Filter/Collection” panel
on smartphones
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o
On smartphones, swipe from left to right or tap on the
button
in the header, or press the back button of the phone to show the
“Filter panel”. By default, the filter panel opens on the filter Collections.
In the Collections Manager screen, which you access by taping on the
icon:
Then by pressing the «Plus» icon next to “My collections” in the top right side
of the screen.
In both cases, a popup window opens where you can type the name of your collection or
sub-collection and select its parent collection in the Parent spinner (by default, the parent is My collections). You save your new collection by pressing the Create button.
When you are in the Library Manager screen, the default parent collection is the current
collection (colored bar on the left edge of the thumbnail in the tree of collections). If you
want to create a sub-collection with a different parent from the default one, you can
change it with the Parent spinner.
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Another way to create a sub-collection in the Library Manager is to check the box next to
the desired parent collection and to tap on the down arrow besides to open the dropdown menu where you can select «Create sub-collection»:
You exit the Collections Manager by tapping on OK on the top left of the screen.
2.3.3 How to add an item to a collection?
1.
In the main screen, when you are in list view or details view, check the boxes
corresponding to the books or notes that you want to add to a certain collection. Then:
•
Tap the
icon in the toolbar
2.
A window opens where you can choose the collection or sub-collection where
you want to add the items, in the collapsible tree of collections.
3.
In this window, you can also create the collection «on the fly» thanks to the
«Create» button.
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2.4 Browsing the lists by using filters
Filters are available in the “Books” and “Notes” sections. By default, the selected filter is
“Collections”.
To select a filter, tap on “Collections” on the top left of the side panel in the main screen
of the section, and choose in the drop-down list.
The filters are different in the “Books” and “Notes” sections:
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In “Books”: Collections, Tags, Authors, Publishers, Series, Languages, Formats, Ratings, Folder;
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In “Notes”: Collections, Tags, Book, Type.
The following metadata types can be renamed directly:
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Tags
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Authors
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Publishers
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Series
o
Please note that for creating series you must fill the two input areas.
To rename such metadata, follow these steps:
1.
On a phone, drag from left to right to show the Filters side panel
2.
Select one of the aforementioned metadata types by clicking on the “Collections” label at the top of the panel
3.
Long press on the metadata you want to rename
4.
A popup appears and allows you to rename the metadata
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5.
If the new name matches an existing one, both will be merged.
2.5 How to delete items in lists?
•
Select the items to remove with the
“select all” button in the header bar;
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Click on the
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Confirm.
checkbox close to the item, or the
icon in the toolbar;
2.5.1 How to search items in lists?
•
In tablets
Click on the standard “Search” button of your device (some devices do not
have such a button) or on the “Search” button in the toolbar (or in the upper
right corner on some devices). The search panel appears as shown below:
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In smartphones
•
Enter the word you are looking for;
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Results appear gradually as you type the word ;
2.6 “Books”: managing your library
The Library module (“Books”) lists all the EPUB and PDF documents present in your
library.
By default, all these electronic documents are listed with some information:
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Title or File name, Author, Addition Date or Last Access, Expiration date for
eBooks
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Tags (Please refer to the What are Tags and how to use them for more information about Tags)
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Reading completion rate (based on the last page read)
•
Rating
Apart from this “default view”, other views are available:
•
List
•
List with details (the default view)
•
Thumbnails (small / medium / large)
2.6.1 Managing your list of documents
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Beyond the common functions that have been described in the previous section (“2.2
Common commands for books and annotations lists”), additional functions are available
in the Library.
These options are available in the toolbar:
Icon
Function / Operation
Launch the synchronization between the files stored in the
device and the items listed in the library (by default all files
in the root folder will be scanned but you can select the
folders to scan when synchronizing in the application’s
Settings)
Open the file explorer and select folders and files you want
to import or share. In the Premium version you can choose
from your device or from your Dropbox account.
2.6.2 How to read an eBook or a PDF document?
Please refer to “3.1 Reading PDF / EPUB eBooks or documents” to discover more about
the Reading functions.
2.6.3 How to share an eBook or a PDF document?
•
With Mantano Cloud: please refer to section “4.6 Sharing books and social
reading”
•
Through my other applications: please refer to “3.2 Sharing books, selected
text and annotations through my other applications”.
NOTA:
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•
When importing eBooks, tags are automatically extracted from the eBook
metadata.
•
Modifications on tags will not update the eBook metadata.
2.6.4 How to change the cover or a metadata (title,
authors,…) of an item
A long press on a book in the Library opens the Book Information window.
•
If you tap on a label followed by the
•
A long press on the cover image allows you to replace it with another one to
choose in your own collection of images.
icon you can edit it.
2.6.5 How to reattach a filte to a book
When the file of a book has been accidentally deleted from the device or moved to
another folder with an external file manager, its thumbnail gets displayed in lighter
colors on your Books.
Since the 2.4.2 version you can associate a file to the book on the Books again:
•
either with a long press on the thumbnail to open the book information
window and press the Search button near the access path of the previous file
•
or by simply opening the book and press Search in the popup. Then you
can navigate to the new location of the file on the device (in case of a deleted file you’ve downloaded the file again somewhere) and select it.
It is important to do this way instead of re-importing the book in the library because
re-importing would only create a second entry on the Books, having no connection
with the previous bookmarks, notes and highlights.
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When you need to move the file of a book present in your library, you can do it
with a long press on the thumbnail to open its information window and by pressing
the Move button near the access path of the file in this window.
2.7 “Notes”: managing your notes and annotations
Mantano Reader allows creating standalone text or sketched notes. They can be attached to a page or a highlight in a document, or simply standalone.
It also allows storing words that have been looked up into a dictionary into a “personal
lexicon”. The entries of this lexicon are also considered as annotations.
The “Notes” tab lists all the highlights, notes and annotations as well as the words from
the personal lexicon.
All the notes are listed with some information:
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Title
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Creation date and time
•
Tags (Please refer to “2.3 Classifying and indexing the books and notes ” for
more information about Tags)
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Page number if the note is attached to a book
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A thumbnail which depends on the type of note/annotation:
Text
Lexicon entry
Sketch
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•
Additional book icon
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Additional picture icon if the annotation was not created by you but one of your
contacts
if it is attached to a book
2.7.1 Managing your list of notes
In addition to the common options described in “2.2 Common commands for books and
annotations lists”, a few additional functions are available in the toolbar of the “Notes”
tab. Once again, the available options displayed depend on whether there are selected
items or not.
2.7.1.1
Icon
Available options when no item is selected
Function / Operation
Create a text note
Create a freehand note
Open the dictionary search popup.
See the section “3.1.5 Using the dictionary and the personal
lexicon” for details.
Select the people from whom you want to see the annotations
2.7.1.2
Available options when one or more items are selected
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Icon
Function / Operation
Generate a “review sheet” including the selected
notes/annotations.
See the Export a note synthesis section.
2.7.2 How to create a note?
Please refer to “3.1.4 Creating and editing a note” to know more about the creation of
notes.
2.7.3 How to share a note?
Please refer to “3.2 Sharing books, selected text and annotations through my other
applications” to know more about the Sharing functions.
2.8 The « Stores » module
This module allows you to browse through hundreds of online free or paid catalogs
compliant with the OPDS catalog format, and to download any electronic book you discover into your personal Library.
There are two lists of catalogs:
•
Stores: Contains a list of commercial bookstores
•
“My feeds”: Here you can add any OPDS Catalogs you want.
Some functions are available. The following table lists all icons and their functions:
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Icon
Function / Operation
Available from a specific catalog. Type the term you are
searching. A results list or a web page appears with the
results depending on the selected OPDS feed.
Add a new OPDS Feed
Visible only when at least one catalog is selected.
Remove the selected OPDS Feeds
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3 What can I do with Mantano Reader
3.1 Reading PDF / EPUB eBooks or documents
In the Library application, click on the document you want to read. It will be opened on
the last read page or on the first page if not opened before.
3.1.1 Browsing through the document pages
There are different ways to browse the document pages:
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Swipe the current page
•
Touch the left or right margins
•
Use the scrollbar (to display it, press the Menu button of your device, or simply
touch the center of the page)
•
Click on the current page number to open the Go to page popup; enter the
desired page number in the popup window; click on “OK”
•
Touch the
tion history.
icon to go to back or
to go to the next page in the naviga-
3.1.2 Setting the display options with gestures
Some display options are controlled with finger gestures on the page:
•
Swipe up / down to increase / decrease the font size (for EPUB or reflowed
PDF)
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•
Pinch to zoom (for PDF)
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Double-tap on a block of text in a PDF document to zoom in / zoom out and
adjust the zoom level so that the width of the block fits the entire display
•
Drag the page with your finger to move around (in a PDF)
•
Swipe up/down on the left border to increase/decrease the screen brightness
The “Display Settings” icon controls other display options, as described below.
3.1.2.1
Tips to read PDF documents
When reading a PDF document, there are a few tips to know:
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In "Horizontal" mode, you can turn pages using left to right swipe gesture. A
fast and long gesture will start a fast scroll, whereas a simple tap will turn only
1 page.
•
In "Vertical scroll" and “Auto scroll” modes, you can continuously scroll using a
vertical swipe gesture
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In Horizontal scroll mode, when you zoom on a page, the next page is not
zoomed. It allows you to quickly find the interest areas of the new page.
•
In Vertical Scroll mode, the zoom level is always remembered when you move
from page to page
•
An interesting combination: double-tap on a paragraph to adjust the width
(remove the margins), and then use vertical scrolling. If you don't like the fact
that the Horizontal scrolling mode "forgets" the zoom when changing page, this
combination may be the good one for you.
3.1.3 Using the reading functions
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Many reading options have been thought to make your reading easier. The following
table lists all of these options with their icons and explains how to use them:
Item
Function/Action
Go back to the Books tab
Bookmark
To mark a page: click on the
of the page
The icon will change into
ed to the bookmark list
icon at the top right corner
and the page number will be add-
To take a mark off, click on the bookmark icon again.
To select the Mantano Cloud contacts of whom you want to
display the annotations
Sharing
To take a text or sketch note. Tap this icon to call the next two
icons below.
Annotate
Create a sketch note. Referring to “3.1.4.1 Creating a freehand
note”
Draw
Create a text note, referring to “3.1.4.2 Creating a text note”
Write
Open the Navigation panel. You will see 4 tabs: TOC, Bookmarks, Highlights, Notes.
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Navigation
The list of all the chapters, highlights, notes or bookmarks in
the current eBook will be displayed, depending on the tab
Click on the desired item to navigate to it
Refer to “3.1.3.3 Highlighting text in a PDF or an EPUB document”
Highlight
Theme
To select the theme you want to use or create or to edit a
theme. You’ll be able to change the fonts, line height, text
alignment, text and background colors, margins and other…
Click on it to listen to the current page. When the Text to speech
function is running, the Text to speech header appears.
Text to speech
See “3.1.3.4 Using the Text to Speech option”
Open the dictionary search popup
Dictionary
See Using dictionary and personal lexicon for details
See the 3.1.3.5 au-dessousLooking for a word in the book
chapter for more information.
Search
Open the scroll options pop up.
Scroll
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Auto: display pages in order to fit the screen
NOTA: This option does not remove the original PDF margins
Display settings
Open the Display Settings popup. It allows you to set: crop,
screen orientation, font size (ePUB only) and reflow mode (PDF
only).
Open the Settings popup.
Settings
Information
Please refer to the “3.4 Setting my preferences” section to get
more information.
Open the metadata Information popup and set the language,
the author, the publisher, the title of the book and the book
cover, the rating, the tags. Share the book with Mantano Cloud
contacts.
Please refer to the “3.1.3.7.1Using Crop Option” section to get
more information
Crop
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3.1.3.1
Night mode and custom themes
You can switch to night mode with a tap on the
top right bar for Honeycomb devices).
icon in the toolbar (or on the
You can also customize everything you want like fonts, margins, colors… For this, tap
the Theme icon in the toolbar to open the Theme selection, then press the New button.
When you’ve typed the name of a new theme, the customization screen appears.
3.1.3.2
Editing bookmarks to create your own Table of Content
By default, bookmarks display the page on the book and the date that you created it. It
you want to display your own title to use it as a custom Table Of Content item:
-
Long press on the item in the notes panel
-
Press the
-
Enter your title
-
Press the Ok button
3.1.3.3
3.1.3.3.1
•
icon
Highlighting text in a PDF or an EPUB document
To highlight
Click on the
toolbar icon to activate the highlight mode. The highlight
panel appears under the header as shown below:
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•
Choose the color between all the colored disks displayed or using the
to open the color chooser popup:
•
•
Select the lines to highlight
You can turn pages in highlight mode using the left and right arrow
•
You can hide the panel staying in highlight mode using the
•
To exit the highlight mode just use the close button
3.1.3.3.2
•
•
To edit the highlight
Tap on a highlight
The actions popup appears with all available actions in the highlight:
icon
icon
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3.1.3.3.2.1
Changing the Color
•
•
Select the
icon
Select the color you want in the color selector
•
Validate
3.1.3.3.2.2
Select the
Text to speech
icon
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See “3.1.3.4 Using the Text to Speech option” for detailed description
3.1.3.3.2.3
•
•
Deleting
Select
in the popup
Select OK in the confirmation alert Dialog
3.1.3.3.2.4
Adding a text note
•
•
Select the
and then the
icon
Use this option as described in the section “3.1.4.2 Creating a text note”
•
After saving your note, you will see the
is the same as the associated highlight.
•
By clicking on the
3.1.3.3.2.5
icon on the top of the page. Its color
icon, you can edit it (see section “3.1.4.3 Editing a note”)
Adding a graphical note
•
•
Select the
and then the
icon
Use this option as described in the section “3.1.4.1 Creating a freehand note”
•
After saving your note, you will see the icon
scribed.
•
By clicking on the
3.1.3.3.2.6
•
•
icon, you can edit it (see section “3.1.4.3 Editing a note”)
Searching a word in a dictionary
Select the
icon
Use this function as described in the section “3.1.5 Using the dictionary and the
personal lexicon”
3.1.3.3.2.7
•
in the page as previously de-
Select the
Sharing
icon
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•
•
•
Refer to Section “3.2 Sharing books, selected text and annotations through my
other applications” for more information.
Selecting text for copy, listening to it, search a word in the dictionary, highlight or
share
Long press on a word to enable the selection mode (a global setting allows you to
choose if you want the device to vibrate or not when a long press occurs)
3.1.3.3.3
Selecting your text
A toolbar appears showing you some options like below:
By default, the most recently used type of highlighting type and color is selected. You
can change the type of highlighting and color by pressing the corresponding options in
the popup.
From a selection you can do other operations such as adding a note, sharing, searching
for a word in the dictionary, listening to the excerpt, copying the selection or even removing highlight.
3.1.3.3.3.1
•
•
Copying text
Select the
icon
The selected text has been copied to the Android clipboard
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•
It can be pasted in any text box with a long press
3.1.3.3.3.2 Listening to selected text
•
See the section with the same name in “To edit the highlight” section
3.1.3.3.3.3 Searching the selected word in the dictionary
•
See the section with the same name in “To edit the highlight” section
3.1.3.3.3.4 Adding a graphical note
•
See the section with the same name in “To edit the highlight” section
3.1.3.3.3.5 Adding a text note
•
See the section with the same name in “To edit the highlight” section
3.1.3.3.3.6 Sharing the note
•
See the section with the same name in “To edit the highlight” section
3.1.3.4
Using the Text to Speech option
The text to speech function only works on PDF and EPUB files (it does not work on notes
or word definitions). The icon for this function is:
When clicking on this icon, the audio options panel appears. By default, the whole text is
read. If you have selected a text, only this text will be read.
At the end, the Text to Speech panel automatically disappears.
•
You can change the text To Speech language thanks to the Languages Spinner.
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•
You can hide the panel by clicking on the up arrow.
•
You can stop reading the text by clicking on the cross icon in the Text to
Speech panel
There are 3 ways to use the text to speech function:
A. By clicking on the
toolbar icon to listen to the current book.
B. By clicking on a highlight and then on the
text only
C. By clicking on the
text only
3.1.3.4.1
icon to listen to the highlighted
popup icon after selecting text to listen to the selected
When is the Text to Speech option available?
Text to speech option is available if:
•
You have permissions to use it (in case of DRM protected books). To see the
permissions you have on the book you can view the metadata information of
the book by clicking on the
•
icon.
The current book has the language information set. You can do it on the
Metadata Information Popup by clicking on the
•
icon.
A Text To Speech voice corresponding to the language of the book is installed
on the device
3.1.3.4.2
In which languages can I use the Text to Speech option?
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Text to Speech uses any of the preinstalled languages that come with the device. You
can buy more languages on Google Play.
3.1.3.4.3
How can I customize the Text To Speech voices?
Text to Speech uses any of the preinstalled voices that come with the device. You can
buy more voices on Google Play.
3.1.3.5
•
Looking for a word in the book
Click on the standard “Search” button of your device (some devices do not
have such a button) or on the “Search” button in the toolbar (or in the upper
right corner on some devices). The search panel appears as shown below:
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•
Enter the word you are looking for;
•
Results appear gradually grouped by chapter with the page number on the
right.
•
Click on a result item to navigate to the corresponding page.
3.1.3.6
Using a dictionary in the reader
Please see the section “3.1.5 Using the dictionary and the personal lexicon”
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3.1.3.7
Display settings
Item
Function/Operation
To increase or decrease the font size in Reflow mode (see
below about this mode)
Font Size
Manage the margin depth using the scroll bar. Please refer to
3.1.3.7.1 Using Crop Option
Crop
Click on
Reflow
to dynamically reformat (“reflow”) the text
The text loses its layout (this option works pretty well on literacy books, but can give unexpected results in documents with
complex page layouts such as technical books).
Click on
er the original layout
to cancel the reflow option and recov-
To select the screen orientation of the device: Automatic,
Portrait, Landscape
Screen rotation
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To select the theme you want to use or to create or edit a
theme
Themes
3.1.3.7.1
•
Using Crop Option
Click on the
icon in the toolbar
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•
You can use :
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•
o
Manuel crop: Use the red handles to set the margins on each page
o
Automatic crop : Click on the
o
Restore the original margins of the document: Click on the
icon
Click on the
margins options
icon
icon to go back to your document with your selected
3.1.3.7.2
Options by document format
Item
PDF no Reflow
PDF Reflow
EPUB
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Please note that for some protected PDF documents a password will be required to
open.
3.1.4 Creating and editing a note
There are 3 different ways to create notes:
•
From the reader: while you are reading an eBook or a document, click on the reader
toolbar icons
to create a note.
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•
From the Notes tab: if you want to create a note, go directly to this Notes tab; click
•
on the
or
toolbar icons
From a highlight in a PDF document (Text note only): click on highlighted lines. It
opens a popup. Select the
3.1.4.1
•
•
or the
option
Creating a freehand note
Click on
to create a new freehand note
From the toolbar choose the thickness of the line in the thickness popup opened
with the toolbar icon
•
Open the color chooser popup with the toolbar icon
below:
as shown
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•
Choose the color you want:
•
From the color selector by moving the selector circle and clicking on it
•
From the predefined colors by clicking on a colored disk
•
From your last used colors by clicking on the disks at the bottom
•
•
Click on OK to validate the color
Draw
•
Save
3.1.4.2
Creating a text note
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•
Click on
•
•
•
Enter a title on the Title input
Click on the box underneath and enter your text note
Click on the “Save” button
3.1.4.3
to open the Text Note edition popup:
Editing a note
The following table lists all of the editing options with their icons and explains how to use
them:
Item
Function/Operation
Remove the note
Delete
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Open on reader
If the note is associated with a document, click on
to open this document with the reader
Open an applications list that allows sharing
Share
3.1.5 Using the dictionary and the personal lexicon
3.1.5.1
Searching a word in dictionnaries
By default, you can search a word in 3 web dictionaries:
•
•
•
Google
Wikipedia
Wiktionary
If ColorDict is installed on your device, you also can search a word in ColorDict.
You can add embedded dictionaries in the Dictionaries section of the settings as described in the Setting my embedded dictionaries section.
There are 3 ways to open the dictionary search popup:
•
By clicking on the
•
By clicking on an highlight and then on the
•
By selecting text in the book and then on the
toolbar icon
icon
popup icon
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Searching a word in the dictionary:
•
Select your dictionary
•
Type the word in the input area
•
Click on the
•
If the selected dictionary is embedded the definition of the word appears under
the search area (Case 1), if it is remote the definition is displayed in an integrated web browser (Case 2), if you have selected ColorDict, the definition appears in a ColorDict window (Case 3)
icon
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Case 1: Embedded
Case 2: Web
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Case 3: ColorDict
•
In the Cases 2 and 3, go back.
•
Click on the corresponding button to add the word in your personal dictionary if
you want to have an easy access to it from your personal lexicon (definitions
are included in Notes and you can access, export and share them from the
Notes section).
•
A message informs you that the word is correctly added
3.1.5.2
Setting my embedded dictionaries
You can download embedded dictionaries in the global preferences. See the Downloading embedded dictionaries section in the next chapter.
3.1.5.3
Using my personal lexicon
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You can see again the definitions you have added by activating the Notes tab and filter it
by the type “Lexicon”.
•
Click on a word in the list
Case 1 and 2: Embedded / Web
•
Case 3: ColorDict
If the word has been searched inside a book, a button with the name of the
book appears on the top. Click on it to open the book at the page where you
have initiated your search.
3.2 Sharing books, selected text and annotations
through my other applications
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Thanks to the share
icon, you can share books, text selections from books,
notes and word definitions using one of your Android applications allowing you to share.
3.2.1 Sharing books
•
Select one or more books
•
Click on the Share icon
•
Select the application you would like to use for sharing:
in the Library, Lexicon or Notes list.
o
If you have selected more than one book, the books will be sent
compressed in a zip file
o
A few applications allow you to share information as attached files
3.2.2 Sharing selected text or highlights
•
Click on the Share icon
•
Select the application you would like to use for sharing
3.2.3 Sharing notes
From the Notes list:
•
Select one or more notes
in the text selection popup.
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•
Click on the Share icon
•
Select the application you would like to use for sharing:
in the Notes tab.
From the Text Notes pop up:
•
Click on the Share button on the Text note popup.
•
Select the application you would like to use for sharing
3.2.4 Comment notes
You can add comments to a note or a highlight or by clicking on the icon
from the navigation panel of the reader.
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The comments panel slides from the right side.
•
Click on the
•
A form appears as shown below.
icon to add your comment.
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•
Tap your comment and click on the “submit" button. Your comment will
be added. It will be seen by all the users with whom the note was shared.
3.3 Exporting a note synthesis
In Notes, select one or several notes. Then you can see the icon Review sheet in the
toolbar.
Tap this icon to display the review sheet to see how it looks like before sharing it. A pop
up will ask you if you want to include the comments on the notes, if at least one of the
selected notes has been commented.
3.4 Setting my preferences
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Click on the Preferences icon
go to the application preferences.
in the toolbar or in the action bar for tablets to
Preferences are organized in 5 sections:
•
Adobe DRM
•
Options
o
My Books
o
Reader
o
Dictionaries
•
User Interface
•
Help
•
About
3.4.1 Setting my Adobe Ids
•
Click on the “Adobe DRM” item in the “Preferences” section
•
Enter your Adobe ID and password
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•
Activate. The current Adobe ID is shown in the Adobe DRM Section. You can
deactivate it by selecting the “Disable this account” option
3.4.2 Books settings
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Click on “Import folders” to select the folders that Mantano Reader will scan when importing eBooks and documents.
Click on “Import with covers” to choose the strategy to import book covers:
•
Always
•
On demand
•
Never
Click on generate book covers to generate the missing book covers. Be careful: it could
be slow on large libraries.
3.4.3 Reader settings
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•
Select “Screen always on” if you want to disable the device’s automatic screen
power off
•
Select “Full-screen reading” to hide the status bar when reading
•
Select “Vibrate” to provide feedback on text selection
•
Select the screen orientation you want between Portrait, Landscape and Automatic (default)
•
Select “Gestures” to change the predefined gesture actions
•
Select “Keys” to change the predefined key actions
3.4.4 Dictionaries settings
3.4.4.1
•
Downloading embedded dictionaries
Click on the “Dictionaries” item in the “Options” section of the Settings
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•
Click on the
icon to download the selected dictionaries
3.4.5 User interface settings
Click on “Expert mode” to hide the toolbar labels.
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3.4.6 Do you need help using Mantano Reader?
You can also post your question into Mantano Support to Mantano Team and other
users.
3.4.6.1
Using Mantano Support
Click on the “Help” section and go to Mantano Support, a support platform that allows
you to:
-
Access our user guides
-
Post your question on the community support forum that best matches your
problem depending on the software involved and the type of problem.
3.4.6.2
•
Downloading the latest user manual
Click on the “Download User Manual” item in the “Preferences” section
We suggest to do it after every application update.
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4 Mantano Cloud
Mantano Cloud makes it easy to read on the go, discuss with friends about your preferred excerpts from the latest best-seller, help each other to get a better understanding
of some obscure passage, or do collaborative bibliographic research, directly from the
books.
This service allowing you to:
•
Back up all your important documents in a secured space
•
Synchronize your Mantano Reader data between all your devices
•
Read a book with your contacts (friends, classmates or colleagues), share your
annotations and discuss about them inside the book
•
Access your books and annotations from your personal space on
cloud.mantano.com
•
Manage the contacts that you will use to share your documents
4.1 Subscribing to Mantano Cloud
The steps of the registration to Mantano Cloud are the following:
1.
Create a Mantano Cloud account
2.
Sign up for the subscription of your choice according to your needs
4.1.1 Creating my Account
You can create your account from Mantano Reader or from Mantano Cloud.
1.
Create your account from Mantano Reader or from Mantano Cloud:
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a.
From Mantano Reader: In the Settings, tap on ‘Sync and back-up’ in
the Sync and back-up section.
b.
From Mantano Cloud: go to cloud.mantano.com. On the home page
of the website, click on the “+” sign on the Login panel and click on
the « Join » button.
2.
Complete your e-mail, pseudo and password in the registration form.
3.
Validate. Within minutes you will receive a confirmation e-mail of your account
in your mailbox.
4.
Click on the link provided by this e-mail, your account will be activated from
this moment.
4.1.2 Subscribing
1.
Enter your pseudo and password in the login form
2.
On the homepage of the website, click on « Evaluate for free » or « Subscribe »
3.
Choose the formula which suits you best
4.
Click on « Next »
5.
Verify your Order information. If it’s ok, click on the « Subscribe » button for
payment through the Paypal system. You will be redirected in the paypal website
4.1.2.1
Paying through the Paypal system
6.
Enter your email and password on the paypal website and click on the “Log in”
button.
7.
Check the Amount in the “Review your payment” page. If it’s ok, click on
“Agree and Pay”. Your purchase will be completed. You can :
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8.
a.
Go back to Mantano Cloud
b.
Go to your Paypal account
If you choose the a. option and go to Mantano Cloud, you will see :
a.
Your payment information.
b.
Your subscription status. If your purchase is completed, you can enjoy the Mantano Cloud service.
4.2 How to start using Sync in Mantano Reader?
Mantano Reader automatically backs up your books and annotations on Mantano Cloud
and synchronizes them between all your devices.
When you open a book that you are also reading on another device, it will be opened on
the same last page that you opened, no matter the device on which it was. This allows
you to easily resume where you left off regardless of which device you are using.
4.2.1 On device A (one of your devices)
1/ In Mantano Reader, configure your Mantano Cloud account:
•
Go to the application settings or click on the “Refresh” button in the toolbar
•
Enter your Mantano Cloud login and password by clicking on “Sync and sharing”
•
The “Mantano Cloud account” screen is displayed with your Cloud information
and options. Please read the default options carefully and change it if you
want.
2/ In Mantano Reader, add books or annotations to the cloud:
•
Select the books or annotations you want to upload to the cloud
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•
Click on “synchronize” (in the toolbar). This will mark the selected books as to
synchronize.
o
The
icon will be displayed on the top of the selected items. It
means that the synchronization action is registered but not yet done.
o
If you want to force the synchronization, you can use the “Refresh”
button
in the toolbar.

Click on it with no books being selected

Books and annotations marked as synchronized will be uploaded, and books and annotations from the cloud will be
visible on all your connected devices.
•
o
The
icon is displayed on top of the items
that are only available in the cloud (archived
items)
When the synchronization will be done, the
placed by the
icon will be re-
icon.
4.2.2 On device B (another of your devices)
1/ In Mantano Reader, configure your Mantano Cloud account:
•
Go to the application settings or click on the “Refresh” button in the toolbar
•
Enter your Mantano Cloud login and password by clicking on “Sync and sharing”
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•
The “Mantano Cloud account” screen is displayed with your Cloud information
and options. Please read the default options carefully and change it if you
want.
2/ When you return to the library, you will be asked if you want to sync. Just select “YES”
and all the changes on device A will be sent to device B.
4.3 In Mantano Cloud, show your documents and
annotations:
You can now browse your library online through the web interface available at
http://cloud.mantano.com (See description in the “4.5 Showing my books and annotations in Mantano Cloud” section)
4.3.1 Managing items in Mantano Cloud
4.3.1.1
Filtering the displayed items according to their status in
Mantano Cloud
Each book or annotation can be in one of these synchronization status:
•
Local : the book or the annotation exists on the device only
•
Synchronized
the device.
•
Archived
: the book or the annotation exists on the cloud only. This
state is marked with the icon. When you open an archived book or graphical
annotation, the files are automatically downloaded.
•
Archived and DRM Protected
: you need to download the book before
opening it. When you try to open it for the first time, a popup invites you to
download it from the store where you purchased it.
: the book or the annotation is on Mantano Cloud and on
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•
Archived but book download needed
: you need to download or buy a
copy of the book before opening it. This concerns books shared by friends.
When you try to open the book for the first time, a popup allows you to go to
the direct link provided by your friend to get the book.
•
Modifications made through the Web interface or from another device will be
reflected for these items the next time that the device synchronizes. By default,
it synchronizes every 30 minutes. This can be changed in the settings.
Real-time synchronizations can also occur when you exit a book. If you are
connected, the last read page and the book’s annotations will be immediately
visible on the cloud and downloaded on the other devices.
By default the application shows all the items in the library. You can use the "Cloud"
button in the toolbar
4.3.1.2
, to filter the items by status.
Synchronizing items to Mantano Cloud
Select the items you want and click on the “Synch” button
and then on the
“Synchronize” option
. The file will be tagged as to be uploaded to Mantano
Cloud and its status becomes “Synchronized”.
4.3.1.3
Archiving items in Mantano Cloud
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Select the items you want and click on the “Synch” button
and then on the
“Archive” option
in the toolbar. The file will be uploaded to Mantano Cloud
and deleted from the device. Its status becomes “Archived”
4.3.1.4
Removing items from Mantano Cloud
Select the items you want and click on the “Synch” button
and then on the
“Remove” option
. The file will be deleted from Mantano Cloud and its status
becomes “Local” if the item is synchronized and it just disappears if it was “Archived”.
4.3.1.5
Synchronizing reading status and annotations beetween devices
for DRM protected books
The file containing a DRM protected book is associated with the device when you download it, and thus cannot be copied to another one. This is why you can’t use the cloud to
send your DRM protected books to another device.
We cannot go against it, because it is to ensure compliance with copyright.
However, you can synchronize the reading status and annotations between devices for
DRM protected books. For this you must:
•
•
On device A (where you have the DRM protected book file)
a.
Select the book (Book A for our explanation)
b.
Tap on
button and choose the "Synch" option
On device B (another Device)
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a.
Tap on the “refresh” button
b.
At the end of the sync, the Book A will be displayed on the “Books”
i.
The icon
indicates that the book is protected and the
file is missing.
c.
Click on the book to open it, a popup asks you to download the book
from where you bought it.
d.
Do it and then import the book into your library. During the import,
Mantano Reader will detect that it is the Book A.
i.
From that moment on, your reading status and your notes
will be automatically synchronized between the two devices.
4.4 Setting the Synchronization options in Mantano
Reader
Automatic Sync is enabled by default every 60 minutes. You can modify the synchronization frequency in the “Synchronization and Backup” section of the Settings. To manually sync, tap the center of your screen to activate the toolbar. Tap the “Refresh” button
on the toolbar
.
4.5 Showing my books and annotations in Mantano
Cloud
To view your documents on Mantano Cloud you must enter your login and password in
the login form.
Once you are logged in, you will see the following items from the main menu of the site:
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•
My Documents
•
Notes
4.5.1 Using filters
The left sidebar provides direct links from a selection of filters for simple and powerful
navigation.
•
Choose the filter you want in the list of choices "by"
•
Click on the item of your choice, the content area on the right will refresh
4.5.2 Showing and managing my books
From the cloud.mantano.com website you can for each book:
•
Manage its tags
•
Add to or delete from a collection
•
Delete from Cloud
•
Delete from everywhere : to delete the document from each one of your devices
•
Download the file if you have synchronized it
•
Show book annotations
4.5.3 Showing and managing my annotations
From the cloud.mantano.com website you can for each annotation:
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Manage its tags
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Add or delete from a collection
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Delete from Cloud
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Delete from everywhere : to delete the document from each one of your devices
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Edit text notes
4.6 Sharing books and social reading
4.6.1 Sharing and unsharing books
4.6.1.1
From Mantano reader
If you are logged into Mantano Cloud you will see under the tag icon of the detail view in
the library:
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the inactive share icon
share synchronized books)
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the active share icon
if the book is not synchronized (you can only
otherwise.
To share a book, click on the Share icon. In the sharing window you can:
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Indicate whether you have the rights or not to share the file
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Select or unselect contacts
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Enter the email address of someone who does not yet belong to your contacts:
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Enter a valid email address in the « Invite by email » text field
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Touch the “+” button. The entered email is added at the top of your
selected contacts
Depending on whether you have the right to share the file or not
o
Validate if you have it
o
Press on the “Next” button to find the link to the book allowing
your friend to download or purchase according to the case
Selected contacts will receive an email to notify them that you want to share a book with
them. Sharing can be accepted or declined:
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From the Home Screen in their Mantano Reader App;
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From their personal space on the "Mantano Cloud" website.
When people have accepted your invitation (and downloaded the file if you do not have
the right to share it or if the file is protected by DRM), they will be able to read the book
and see your annotations and vice versa.
4.6.1.2
From the Mantano Cloud website
Make sure, you have at least one contact to share some books (See the “4.7 Managing
my contacts / 4.7.1 Adding contacts” section below to see how to do it).
Go to the “My documents” section in your personal space on the Mantano Cloud website.
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Click on the share icon
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On the “sharing popup”:
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o To share a book with a contact, select him with the checkbox.
o To un-share a book with someone, click on the contact name.
Validate, the contact list near the share icon will be updated to reflect the
changes
The color of the contact’s name indicates the sharing state
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of a book
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o
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The name is gray when the contact has not yet accepted the shared
book
It becomes black when the contact accepts the sharing
4.6.2 Seeing others’ annotations while I read a book
By default, when opening the book you will only see your annotations. To see annotations of contacts that you have shared the book with:
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Click on the sharing icon, which can be found in the toolbar and in the navigation panel
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Select the people from whom you want to see the annotations
o
In the navigation panel, the list of items will be updated
o
In the book, others’ annotations will appear differentiated with a
sharing symbol
4.7 Managing my contacts
Go to the “My contacts” section in your personal space on the Mantano Cloud website.
This section contains all the contacts that have either accepted your invitation to become one of your contacts or who have also accepted at least one sharing of yours.
In this section you can:
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Delete one or more of the contacts
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Accept or reject friend requests
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Add contacts
4.7.1 Adding contacts
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Click on the “Add contact” button on the top of the contacts page. In the text area, type
the contacts’ email addresses that you want comma-separated, click on the “Invite”
Button.
4.7.2 Accepting or declining friend requests
4.7.2.1
From Mantano Reader
Go to the "Home" screen:
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On tablets: click on the Mantano Reader Logo
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On smartphones: click on the “Home” icon
If you have some contact requests to accept, an icon is displayed on the top, near your
pseudo. By clicking on it, you will see the pending list. You can accept or decline by
clicking on the corresponding button.
4.7.2.2
From Mantano Cloud
Click on "My contacts" on your web space Mantano Cloud and on the "To accept" collection. Click on "Accept" or "Remove" for each contact or use the multiple selection.
4.8 Accepting or declining sharing
4.8.1.1
From Mantano Reader
Go to the "Home" screen:
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On tablets: click on the Mantano Reader Logo
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On smartphones: click on the “Home” icon
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If you have some shared reading to accept, a specific section is displayed on the center
of the screen.
An icon indicates if your friend has the necessary rights to include the book copy in the
sharing:
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A book copy is included
No book copy is included. You must also get the book (if you have not already done so) to be able to get into the shared reading.
You can accept or decline by clicking on the corresponding button.
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When you accept the file the book is automatically added to your Library
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In the library, if the copy is not included, the icon
indicates that
you need to download or buy a copy of the book before opening it.
When you try to open it, a popup allows you to go to the direct link provided by your friend to get the book.
4.8.1.2
From Mantano Cloud
Click on "My documents" on your web space Mantano Cloud and on the collection
"Pending shared items" . Click on "Get" or "Decline" for each document or use the multiple selection.