Franklin BOOKMAN CDR-440 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK

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USER’S GUIDE

CDR-440

The PDR

Family Guide to

Prescription Drugs

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOK-

MAN®! Using your new

PDR® Family

Guide to Prescription Drugs®

book

card, you can find important informa-

tion about more than 850 brand

name and generic drugs.

You can also read 23 informative

health overviews, plus useful medical

safety tips. To learn how to use this

electronic book, simply follow the

steps in this User’s Guide.

Key Guide ...................................................................... 2

Installing the Batteries .................................................. 3

Installing a Book Card ................................................... 4

Selecting a Book ........................................................... 4

Using the Color Keys..................................................... 5

Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 5

Changing the Settings ................................................... 6

Looking up a Drug ......................................................... 6

Reading a Drug Profile .................................................. 7

Reading Health Overviews ............................................ 8

Reading Medical Safety Tips ......................................... 9

Using the Index ............................................................. 10

Searching for Words ..................................................... 11

Highlighting Search Words............................................ 12

Sending Words Between Books .................................... 13

Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ......................................... 15

Index.............................................................................. 15

Key Guide

Color Keys

DRUG

(red) Displays the Drugs

menu.

HEALTH

(green) Displays the Health

Overviews menu.

TIPS

(yellow) Displays the Medi-

cal Safety Tips menu.

(blue) Displays and clears

the word search screen.

Function Keys

BACK

Backs up to the previous screen.

CAP

Shifts keys to type capitals and

punctuation.

CARD Exits the selected book.

CLEAR Clears a word search and

highlights the Contents menu.

ENTER

Selects a menu item, starts a

word search, or highlights a

word in the text.

HELP

Displays help messages.

MENU Toggles between the main

menus and text.

ON/OFF

Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.

At a menu, displays the full title

of an item. At text, displays the

Outline Location. Shifted, types

an asterisk to stand for a series

of letters in a word.

Direction Keys

Scroll line by line.

Scroll screen by screen.

SPACE

Page down.

Key Combinations1

✩

At text, go the next or

previous section.

CAP

+ or At a menu, go to the

top or bottom item. At text, go the next

or previous section.

✩

BACK

From a submenu, go back to

the main menus.

✩

+ CARD Send a highlighted word be-

tween books.

✩

ENTER

From a highlighted drug

name on the Drugs menu, go di-

rectly to its drug profile.

1Hold

✩

while pressing the other key

Key Guide (cont’d.)

Quick Keys2

Go to the

Dosage

section.

Go to the

Side Effects

section.

Go to the

Most Important Fact

section.

Go to the

General

section.

Go to the

Food and Drug Interac-

tions

section.

Go to the

Do Not Take If

section.

Go to the

Overdosage

section.

Go to the

Prescribed For

section.

Go to the

Use in Pregnancy or

Breastfeeding

section.

Go to the

How to Take

section.

Go to the

Special Warnings

section.

Installing the Batteries

Your BOOKMAN 440 model re-

quires two CR2032, 3-volt batteries.

Here is how to install or replace

them.

Warning: When the batteries lose

power or are removed from your

BOOKMAN, information that you en-

tered in its built-in book and in an in-

stalled book card will be erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

2. Slide off its battery cover in

the direction of the triangle.

3. Install the batteries with

their plus signs facing you.

4. Replace the battery cover.

➤ About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on screen. This doesn’t

mean that your BOOKMAN is

malfunctioning.

2The Quick keys perform these functions only

when you’re reading a drug profile.

Selecting a Book

If you’ve installed a book card in your

BOOKMAN, you can select which

book you want to use. Follow these

steps.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARD

3. Press or to highlight a

book symbol.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card when your BOOKMAN is

turned on. If you do, information that

you’ve entered in its built-in book, as

well as in any other installed book

cards, will be erased

1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs of the book

card with the notches in the

slot.

4. Press the book card down

until it snaps into place.

Installing a Book Card

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Removing a Book Card

Warning: When you remove a

book card to install another, infor-

mation that you entered in the

removed book card will be erased.

➤

Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN

at any time. When you turn on

your BOOKMAN again, the

screen that you last viewed ap-

pears.

Viewing a Demonstration

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Help is Always at Hand

You can see an appropriate help

message at virtually any screen by

pressing

HELP

. Press or

read the message. Press

BACK

exit it.

To read a tutorial about how to

use this book, select

Tutorial

from

the Setup menu.

Using the Color Keys

he red, green, yellow, and blue keys

on the top row of the BOOKMAN

keyboard change their functions ac-

cording to which book you’re currently

using.

If you’re using the built-in book, the

color keys function as labeled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re using

an installed book card, the color keys

function as labeled on that card.

Remember, when you’re using a

book card, the color keys function as

labeled on that card, not as on the

keyboard.

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You may want to see a brief demon-

stration of how to use this book. Sim-

ply install the book card and then

follow these steps.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Use the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

3. Press to highlight View Demo.

4. Press

ENTER

5. To stop the demonstration,

press

CLEAR

Looking up a Drug

If you know the brand or generic

name of a drug, here’s how to find its

drug profile.

1. Press

DRUG

(the red key).

Or highlight

Drugs

on the Con-

tents menu and then press

ENTER

2. Type a brand or generic drug

name. For example, type Tylenol.

To undo a letter, press

BACK

3. When the drug is high-

lighted, press

ENTER

4. Highlight a section and then

press

ENTER

This is the drug profile for

Tylenol

Changing the Settings

Using the Setup menu, you can adjust

the type size, shutoff time, and screen

contrast.

The type size sets how large the char-

acters appear on screen. The shutoff

time sets how long your BOOKMAN

stays on if you forget to turn it off. The

screen contrast sets how light or dark

the screen appears.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Use the arrow keys to high-

light Set Type Size, Set

Shutoff, or Set Contrast on

the Setup menu.

A slanted arrow indicates a submenu.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Press or to highlight a

new setting.

To leave the setting unchanged,

press

BACK

5. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤

Viewing Complete Menu Items

Some topic and section titles on the

Health Overviews and Med. Safety

Tips

menus, as well as some Index

entries, are too long to fit on the

menus. To see a complete menu

item title, highlight the item and then

press

6. Use or

to scroll down.

7. Hold

✩

and press

go to the next or previous

section.

8. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Looking up a Drug Reading a Drug Profile

You can also read medical safety tips

about Poison Control Centers, safe

medication use, alcohol- or sugar-

free drugs, drugs that cause a reac-

tion to sunlight, and recommended

vaccinations.

1. Press

TIPS

(the yellow key).

Or highlight

Med. Safety Tips

on the

Contents menu and then press

ENTER

2. Highlight a topic (for ex-

ample, Poison Control

Centers) and then press

ENTER

To highlight a menu item, press

, or type its first few letters.

3. Highlight a subtopic (for ex-

ample, Middle Atlantic) and

then press

ENTER

4. Highlight an item (for ex-

ample, National Capital Poison

Center) and then press

ENTER

Reading a Drug Profile

5. Use these Quick keys to go a

section of the profile:

To go to... Press...

General

Prescribed For

Most Important Fact

How to Take

Side Effects

Do Not Take If

Special Warnings

Food and Drug Interactions

Use in Pregnancy

or Breastfeeding

Dosage

Overdosage

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤

Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows at the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to scroll through the

menus or text.

Reading Health Overviews

You can read health overviews cov-

ering topics such as “Coping with

Arthritis” and “Handling Familiar

Childhood Infections.”

1. Press

HEALTH

(the green key).

Or highlight

Health Overviews

the Contents menu and then

press

ENTER

2. Highlight a topic (for ex-

ample, Coping with

Arthritis).

To highlight a topic, press or

, or type its first few letters.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Highlight a section (for ex-

ample, What is Arthritis?).

5. Press

ENTER

to go to the

heath overview.

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