Franklin BOOKMAN DBE-2020 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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USER’S GUIDE

MANUAL DEL USUARIO

DBE-2020

™

Spanish Master/

Maestro Ingles

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Contents

Introduction ..................................................................... 4

Installing Book Cards ....................................................... 4

Selecting a Book .............................................................. 5

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

Changing the Language .................................................... 6

Viewing a Demonstration ................................................. 7

Translating English Words ................................................ 7

Translating Spanish Words ............................................... 8

Highlighting a Word .......................................................... 9

Learning Inflections .......................................................... 9

Finding a Letter in a Word .............................................. 10

Finding a Series of Letters .............................................. 11

Correcting Misspellings .................................................. 11

Using Your Personal List ................................................ 12

Sending a Word Between Books ..................................... 13

Changing Game Settings ................................................ 14

Playing the Games .......................................................... 14

Book Card Care ............................................................. 18

Copyrights and Patents .................................................. 18

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears to the Ready

screen.

Shows Additional Functions menu.

INFL

(red) Show inflections of a word.

LANG

(green) Switches between English

and Spanish entry languages.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST

(blue) Shows Personal list menu.

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

? ✽

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shifted, types an

✽

to stand

for a series of unknown letters.

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sends a word between books.

✩

Shows the next word or

inflection group.

✩

Shows the previous word

or inflection group.

✩

+ NTypes an

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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

✩

while pressing the other key.

Installing Book Cards

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card when BOOKMAN is on. If you

do, information that you entered in its

built-in book, and in an installed book

card, will 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 will be erased.

Introduction

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Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at any

screen. When you turn BOOKMAN

on again, the screen that you last

viewed appears.

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

Spanish Master

, you can now

translate and define more than 250,000

words, correct misspellings of both

Spanish and English words, view noun,

adjective, and verb inflections, and save

words to a Personal word list for a more

enjoyable way to learn.

To learn how to use other books, read

their User’s Guides.

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change functions

according to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book

card book is selected, the color keys

function as labelled on that book card.

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Using the Color Keys

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MAN books in book cards function as

labelled on their book cards, 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.

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Typing Numbers

To type numbers, hold

✩

and press a

number key.

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Changing the Contrast

If you want to change the screen

contrast, repeatedly press or at

the blank ready screen.

Entry Language

The entry language is the language in

which you enter words at ready screens.

This determines which dictionary you will

use, Spanish or English.

1. If not at a menu screen, press

CLEAR

Press

LANG

to switch between

dictionaries.

▼

Changing the Language

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 prompts, help, and other

messages. You can change the message

language after your initial decision.

Note: The examples in the English half of

this manual use English as the message

language.

1. Press

if you are not at the

Message Language screen.

2. Press A to select the Message

Language screen.

3. Press B to select English as the

message language; press Ato

select Spanish.

▼

Changing the Language

Translating English Words

With this Spanish Master, you are able

to translate English words to Spanish

simply by typing English words.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

LANG

to change the entry

language to English, if needed.

3. Type a word (e.g., cat).

To erase a letter press

BACK

4. Press

ENTER

5. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

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Explanation of Genders

Spanish nouns are different than English

nouns in that they must either be

masculine or feminine. The <m> means

that the word listed (e.g.,

hombre

) is

masculine. Likewise an <f> would show

the word to be feminine.

Viewing a Demonstration

Before you start using your new

BOOKMAN, you may want to see a

brief demonstration of what it can do.

When a book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, press

. Then use the

arrow keys to highlight the Additional

Functions menu. Then select

View Demo.

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 use

the arrow keys to highlight the Additional

Functions menu. Highlight

Disable Demo

and press

ENTER

. To re-enable it, select

Enable Demo

from the Additional Functions

menu.

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Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of the

screen show which arrow keys you

can press to move around menus or

view more text.

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Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

Press the direction keys to read it. To

exit help, press

BACK

To read a tutorial of how to use the main

functions and keys of this book, select

Tutorial

from the Additional Functions

menu.

Translating Spanish Words

Your Spanish Master is fully bilingual. Try

translating a Spanish word.

1. Press

LANG

to change the Entry

language from English to

Spanish, if needed.

2. Type a word (e.g., mensaje).

If you need to type an accent: type

the letter (e.g.,

) and press

repeatedly until the accent you want

appears. If you want to type a

ñ,

then

hold

✩

and press

3. Press

ENTER

In addition to "mensaje", the Spanish

Master translates words with similar

meanings such as “verse” . To view

more press .

4. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Translating English Words

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Understanding Definitions

When you find a definition, you may see

that there are several different meanings

for your word. Here is an example.

1. Type

man

2. Press

ENTER

This screen shows that “hombre” is the

most common use of the word.

The capitalized words found in brackets

indicate there's another category that

this word could be used with. For

example, if you are talking about a chess

man, you would use the word “pieza”

instead of “hombre”.

Learning Inflections

Inflections show changes in a word’s

meaning or function. This dictionary

includes extensive inflections of nouns,

verbs, modifiers, and other words.

1. Press

LANG

to switch to the

Spanish ready screen.

2. Type a Spanish word (e.g., beber).

3. Press

INFL

These are the principal forms of the

verb

beber

4. Use the direction keys to read.

5. Press either

INFL

or hold

✩

and

press

repeatedly to view

more inflections.

If the word is a noun, an adjective, or

another modifier, then there won’t be

any other inflections.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Highlighting a Word

You can look up most words by highlighting

them within dictionary definitions. You can

then find their definitions, translations, and

synonyms. Note: By searching for a

highlighted word, the entry language

changes to the language of the word for

which you searched.

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

a word.

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

define the word

ENTER

view inflections

INFL

add words to Personal list

LIST

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