Franklin BOOKMAN BQL-2066 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK

MAN

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GUIDA ALL’USO/USER’S GUIDE

BQL-2066

Dizionario Inglese-

Italiano Compatto

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Contents

Introduction .................................................................. 23

Installing Book Cards .................................................... 23

Selecting a Book ........................................................... 24

Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 24

Setting the Message Language ...................................... 25

Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 25

Changing the Settings ................................................... 26

Changing the Entry Language ........................................ 26

Finding Dictionary Entries ............................................. 27

Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 28

Finding English Inflections ............................................. 29

Finding a Letter in a Word ............................................. 30

Finding a Series of Letters ............................................. 30

Correcting Misspellings ................................................. 31

Using Your Personal List ............................................... 31

Changing Game Settings ............................................... 33

Playing the Games ......................................................... 33

Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 35

Book Card Care ............................................................ 36

Resetting Your BOOKMAN ............................................ 38

Copyrights and Patents ................................................. 38

Key Appendix ................................................................ 39

Color Keys

CO NIU

(red) Displays inflections of a word.

LING

(green) Switches between English

and Italian entry languages.

GIOCHI

(yellow) Displays the games list.

LISTA

(blue) Displays the personal

word list menu.

Function Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type capitals and

punctuation marks.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

CLEAR

Erases all entries and returns to

the entry screen.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Displays help messages.

Displays the main menus.

ON/OFF

Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

? ✽

Types a

to stand for an unknown

letter in a word, displays a full

menu item, or displays the

headword in a dictionary entry.

Key Guide

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

or Accents a typed letter.

or Pages up or down.

Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sends a word between books.

✩

+ Shows the next or previous

or word or inflection group.

✩

Types letters.

✩

Types a hyphen.

CAP

+ Goes to the top or bottom of

or the text or menus.

CAP

? ✽

Types an ✽to stand for a

series of unknown letters.

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Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow,

and blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the BOOKMAN book

described in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own color key

functions, which are labelled on their

book cards and listed in their User’s

Guides. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.”

Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

Installing Book Cards

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while BOOKMAN is on. If you

do, information that you entered in its

built-in book, as well as in an installed

book card, may be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the book card

with the notches in the slot.

4. Press the book card down until

it snaps into place.

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Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove a book

card to install another, information that

you entered into the removed book

card may be erased.

Introduction

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Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN at

any screen. When you turn your

BOOKMAN on again, the screen that

you last viewed appears.

➤

Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of the

screen show which arrow keys you

can press to move around the screen.

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable

electronic reference with a built-in book

and a slot in the back for more books.

With this

Dizionario Inglese-Italiano

Compatto

, you can now translate and

define more than 34,000 words, correct

misspellings of both Italian and English

words, view English inflections, and save

words to a personal word list for a more

enjoyable way to learn. To learn how to

use this dictionary, read this User’s Guide.

Use your BOOKMAN to read this book

card. Read “Installing Book Cards” to

learn hot to get started.

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

the top row of your BOOKMAN change

functions according to which book is

selected.

If you have selected the built-in book, the

colour keys function as labeled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have

selected a book card, the color keys

function as labeled on that card.

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Using the Color Keys

Remember, when you have selected a

book card, the color keys function as

labeled on that card, not as on the

keyboard.

Once you have installed a book card in

your BOOKMAN, you can then select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARD

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Selecting a Book

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About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on screen. This does not

mean that your BOOKMAN is

malfunctioning.

Note: The examples in the English half

of this manual use English as the

message language.

When you turn on this product for the first

time, you must choose the message

language.

The message language is the

language of the prompts, screen instruc-

tions, menu items, and help messages.

• To select English as the

message language, press

• To select Italian as the message

language, press

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Changing the Message Language

Once you have set the message

language, you may wish to change it.

Here is how to change the message

language from Italian to English. First

press

to go to the main menus,

and use the arrow keys to highlight the

Setup menu. Then highlight

Lingua del

Messagio

and press

ENTER

to select it.

To change the message language from

Italian to English, select

Message

Language

from the Setup menu.

Setting the Message

Language

Before you start using your BOOKMAN,

you can view a brief demonstration of

what it can do.

When no book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, the demonstration will

automatically appear after you turn the

unit on. To stop the demonstration, press

CLEAR

. To disable it, press

and

then use the arrow keys to highlight the

Setup menu. Highlight

Disable Demo

from the Setup menu and press

ENTER

select it. To re-enable it, select

Enable

Demo

from the Setup menu.

When a book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, press

. Then use the

arrow keys to highlight

View Demo

from

the Setup menu and then press

ENTER

view the demo.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

Use the Direction keys to read it. To

exit help, press

BACK

To read about what the keys do, select

Tutorial

from the Setup menu.

The entry language is the language in which

you type search words. In dictionary

entries, the entry language always appears

at the beginning of the entry. You can

change the entry language at the entry

screen or the main menus.

1. Press

CLEAR

to go to the entry

screen, if needed.

Press

LING

(green) to change the

entry language from Italian to

English.

3. Press

to go to the main

menus.

4. Press

LING

(green) to change

the entry language from

English to Italian.

Changing the Settings Changing the Entry

Language

You can adjust the type size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast of this book.

The shutoff time is how long your

BOOKMAN remains on if you forget to

turn it off. The screen contrast is how

light or dark the screen display appears.

1. Press

2. Use or to highlight the

Setup menu.

Press to highlight Set Type

Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

4. Press

ENTER

5. Press or to change the

setting.

To leave the settings unchanged,

press

BACK

6. Press

ENTER

to select it.

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Understanding Dictionary Entries

The bold words at the top of the

dictionary entry is the headword with

its tense and gender in parentheses,

which is followed by any available

translation(s) of the headword. Other

definitions, variants of the word, and

similar words are shown along with

their translations, if any are available.

FindingDictionaryEntries

With this dictionary, you can translate

English words to Italian and Italian words to

English simply by typing the word.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

LING

(green) to change

the entry language to English,

if needed.

3. Type a word. For example, type

woman.

To erase a letter press

BACK

4. Press

ENTER

5. Use the Direction keys to read

the dictionary entry, if needed.

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Dictionary Entries

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Typing Accents and Diacritical

Marks

You do not need to type accent and

diacritical marks when you are entering

words at the entry screen. They will be

added automatically. If you type a word

which has two forms (for example,

resume

résumé

) that are accented

differently, you must highlight the form

that you want and press

ENTER

If you want to type accent and diacritical

marks, you must use the correct marks

or the word will be treated as a

misspelling. To type an accent or

diacritical mark, type the desired letter

(for example,

) and press or until

the desired mark appears.

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Browsing Dictionary Entries

Here is how to move around in the

dictionary entries.

To... Press...

Go to the next or previous

✩

dictionary entry or

Go to the top or bottom

⇑

of the dictionary entry or

Page up or down or

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Another Way to Find Words

Instead of entering words at the entry

screen, you can also search the

dictionary list. First press

. Then

start typing a word at the dictionary

list. To erase a letter, press

BACK

When the word you want translated is

highlighted, press

ENTER

to view its

dictionary entry. You can also use the

Direction keys to help you highlight

words on the dictionary list.

➤

Changing the Entry Language

from the Main Menus

You can also change the entry

language from the main menus.

Simply highlight the Ling menu and

select either

Ital➝Engl

to change the

entry language to Italian or select

Engl ➝Ital

to change the entry

language to English. Or press

LING

(green) to change the current entry

language.

Finding Dictionary Entries Highlighting a Word

Another way to search for words is by

highlighting them in dictionary entries or in

any word lists. Then you can find their

definitions, inflections, or add them to your

personal words list. Note: If you look up a

word in a language other than your current

entry language, the entry language is

temporarily changed to the other language.

When you press

CLEAR

, your

selected entry language is restored.

1. At any text, press

ENTER

to start

the highlight.

You can turn the highlight off by

pressing

BACK

2. Use the arrow keys to highlight

at word.

3. Do one of the following.

To... Press...

define the word

ENTER

view English inflections

CO NIU

add words to the personal list

LISTA

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