Logging in and signing up ∧ Top

Is this your first time on PaperC? You can read up to ten pages of every book without the need to log in. If you want to continue reading, we need you to sign up with your e-mail account and a password. You can also use your Facebook account to sign up. After registering you will receive an email containing an activation link for your PaperC account - one click on the activation link activates your account. Now you are able to log in with your email address and password and go on working on PaperC.

If you don't receive an email right away, please check your spam folder then contact support@paperc.de – we love to help you out.

Looking for specific books ∧ Top

You can look for books by entering one or several search terms into the search box (1); you can search for specific tags or ISBN numbers. If you're looking for specific publications, authors, languages, publishers or publication periods, click on "Advanced Search." (2). A new search field pops up. Now you can enter your respective search terms and confirm your search by pressing the enter key. Your search results will be displayed immediately. Alternatively you can look for books by (3) browsing categories or else the most popular or most recent publications on PaperC.

Here's an example: If you enter a search term in the "advanced search" field, all book pages that contain your search term will be displayed at the bottom of the page (1). As soon as you click on a page number the respective e-book page will be displayed (2). Alternatively, you can click on the book title or the book cover (3) and immediately start reading.

Reading with the PaperC-Reader ∧ Top

You can read every book on PaperC comfortably via the PaperC-Reader. The arrow keys help you to skip ahead and back easily. If you enter a number in-between the arrow keys the Reader will jump to the respective page right away (1). If you click on the little square icon you will arrive at the table of contents (2). You can change the font size with the + and - buttons (3). The search box above the book allows you to find keywords inside the document - type in your keywords, then click >> (4).

You are able to read every book on PaperC for at least 10 minutes without any restrictions. After 30 minutes a pop-up window will inform you about your subsiding reading time. This pop-up enables you to purchase the book, to annotate text sections or to save text selections as citations. Until you close the pop-up window your reading time will be stopped automatically. After at least 10 minutes of free, unrestricted reading time another pop up window appears. This pop-up window informs you that you will have to wait for an hour until you can continue reading the respective book. During your wait-time you can read other books for free. The purchase of the whole book or else single book pages allows you to read the whole book without any time limit or other restrictions.

Searching a document ∧ Top

In order to look for specific terms inside an e-book you need to enter them into the search field above the book. Using the right-hand arrow key you can choose between searching the current page or the whole book. Once you confirm your search terms with the enter key or the <<-button, your search results appear inside a new window. The window containing your search results may be too small to display all of the search results. You can scroll up and down the page pressing down your right mouse button. Click on the text section that you want to see and the Reader jumps to the respective page.

Topping up ∧ Top

You can work with books on PaperC in many different ways: You can a.) save and print pages, chapters or the whole e-book you can b) cite you can c.) annotate text and you can d.) save pages as PDF. To make use of all of these premium functions you need PaperC credit. Go to "My account" and click the "top up" button. A pop-up appears. Here you choose the page numbers you'd like to own and type in the amount of your desired credit transfer (1). Then you choose your preferred type of payment (2) and type in your invoice address (3). We accept payment via Visa Card, Master Card, Pay Pal and SponsorPay.

Citing ∧ Top

On PaperC you can save text sections easily and include them into a citation collection. In order to do that you need to highlight the respective text sections. (1) Now you can either click "copy text" or "create excerpt." Click "create excerpt" (2.) A pop up appears. You are now able to "buy the page and use our premium functions". If you click the  "create excerpt" button you will automatically buy the page. The payment will be subtracted from your PaperC account. One page is 10 cents.

Citing a text section means highlighting it. (3) If you'd like you can change the colour of the highlighted sections. Your citation will appear in an extra panel on the right side of your PaperC Reader. (4)

Annotating text ∧ Top

On PaperC there is an annotation box beneath every e-book - you can use it for comments, ideas and suggestions (1). Furthermore you are able to tag your annotations (2). What's more you can publish your annotation - so as to do that you tick the box that's next to the publish option. (3) When another PaperC user chooses to read the same book, he will be able to read your published annotations (4).

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Your annotations pop up in a little square speech bubble (1). You can insert the bubble anywhere you want. You move the bubble by pressing the right mouse button. Your annotation is flexible which means that you can adjust and change it anytime you want to.

Following categories and publishers ∧ Top

Keep informed about new releases by following either (1) PaperC categories or (2) publishers. Just click the respective "follow" button and you'll receive email updates as soon as suitable new publications have arrived on PaperC.

Bookmarking and recommending ∧ Top

On PaperC you can bookmark e-books or recommend them to friends and relatives. You yourself decide whether you want to recommend a specific page (every single page has its own URL that you can use) or a whole e-book. You have four different buttons at your disposal. You can either 1) send an e-mail with the appropriate e-book-link (2) share an e-book or an interesting page in your Facebook profile (3) tweet the respective URL or (4) choose your favourite way to share using one of our 334 other social plug-ins.

Printing as PDF ∧ Top

If you want to put together a PDF out of single pages, chapters or a whole e-book, click either on e-book (1), chapter (2) or page-download (3).
Please note that some publishers do not enable their books to be downloaded as PDF - in that case you can only purchase unlimited reading time for the corresponding e-books.

The "page-download" button gives you the opportunity to convert the current page, (1) several consecutive pages or the whole e-book into PDF (2) and save it. If you want to convert several consecutive pages into PDF, you move the regulator along the bar until it contains the desired pages (3). You alone decide which pages will commence and conclude your PDF (4-5). Alternatively, you can use the arrows on your keyboard. If you have already annotated or cited text sections, you are able to decide whether they should be included in your PDF or not.

Now a tab opens that contains your downloads (inside your personal settings in "My Library" you find an overview of every PDF you ever downloaded). When your PDF has been successfully converted and processed, you can "download PDF" by clicking the respective link. Warning: You need to deactivate your pop-up blocker. As soon as you click the "PDF download"-button a pop-up- window opens. You can now save and print your PDF. However, there are some publishers that do not enable their books to be downloaded. If that is the case, you will be informed when trying to download the file.

If you'd like to purchase an e-book (or else a page or a chapter) but lack sufficient PaperC credit, you are able to top up while purchasing the e-book. As soon as you click the "e-book download" button a pop up window appears where you can enter your desired page numbers and the amount of credit you'd like to top up. Subsequently you are demanded to enter your invoice address and your desired type of payment.

My personal library ∧ Top

"My personal library" gives you the opportunity to manage all your PaperC activities. All your book and page purchases are saved here as well as all the books that you've once read, annotated, cited or that you've bookmarked (1). What's more is that you receive an overview of all publishers and categories that you are following (2) and all tags that you have once left (3).