Franklin BOOKMAN DMM-440 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK

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USER’S GUIDE

DMM-440

Macquarie

Dictionary

License Agreement

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®!

With your

Macquarie Dictionary

, you

can find over 95,000 words and

500,000 synonyms, antonyms, and

Classmates™.

You can also find phrases, correct mis-

spellings, save words to your personal

list, and play four fun words games.

Read this User’s Guide to learn how.

Installing Batteries and Installing a Book Card ................ 4

Selecting a Book and Using the Colour Keys .................. 5

Changing the Settings and Viewing a Demonstration ........ 6

Finding Dictionary Entries ............................................... 7

Using the Word List ......................................................... 8

Highlighting Words .......................................................... 8

Finding Thesaurus Entries ............................................... 9

Finding Phrases ............................................................... 9

Finding Inflections ......................................................... 10

Finding Confusables®..................................................... 10

Finding Parts of Words .................................................. 11

Saving Words for Study ................................................. 11

Changing Games Settings ............................................. 12

Playing the Games ......................................................... 13

Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 14

Resetting Your BOOKMAN ............................................ 15

Specifications ................................................................ 15

Key Guide

Colour Keys

INFL

(red) Displays the inflected forms,

if any, of the selected word.

THES

(green) Displays synonyms,

antonyms, and Classmates™, if

any, of the selected word.

PHRASE

(yellow) Displays phrases, if any,

that contain the selected word.

LIST

(blue)

Displays the personal list

menu.

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up a step, erases a letter,

or turns off the highlight.

CAP

Shifts the keys to type capitals

or punctuation.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

CLEAR

Clears all of your entries.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a menu

item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Displays help messages.

Displays the main menus.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

?✽

Types a ?to stand for an

unknown letter; with

CAP

types an ✽to stand for a series

of letters. At a dictionary entry,

displays the headword. At a

menu, displays a full menu title.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

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Understanding the Colour Keys

The colour keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed above only

for the book described in this User’s Guide.

Other BOOKMAN books have their own

colour key functions, which are labelled on

their keyboards or book cards. To learn

more, read “Using the Colour Keys.”

Key Combinations*

✩

+ CDisplays Confusables®, if

any, of the selected word.

✩

+ MDisplays the games menu.

✩

Goes to the next or

previous entry or match.

✩

+ Types a hyphen.

✩

+ Q- PTypes numbers.

CAP

+ Goes to the bottom or top

of an entry or menu.

* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

Direction Keys

Moves in the indicated direction.

Pages down or up.

or Accents a typed letter.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while your BOOKMAN is

turned on. If you do, information that

you have entered in the built-in book,

as well as in any other installed book

cards, may 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 CardInstalling Batteries

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Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove a

book card to install another, informa-

tion that you entered in the removed

book card may be erased.

Note: If battery insulation tape is in-

stalled, carefully remove it by pulling

the battery installation tape out of the

battery compartment.

BOOKMAN 440 models use two

CR2032 3-volt batteries. Here is how

to install or replace the batteries.

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.

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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 the

screen.

Selecting a Book

Once you have installed a book card in

your BOOKMAN, you can 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.

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Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN at

any time. When you turn your

BOOKMAN on again, the screen

that you last viewed reappears.

Using the Colour Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys

on the top row of your BOOKMAN

change their functions according to

which book you have selected.

If you have selected the built-in book,

the colour keys function as labelled on

the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have

selected a book card, the colour keys

function as labelled on that card.

Remember, when you have selected a

book card, the colour keys function as

labelled on that card, not as on the

keyboard.

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Changing the Settings

You can adjust the type size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast of this book.

The shutoff time is how long your

BOOKMAN stays 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

Use or to change the setting.

To leave the settings unchanged,

press

BACK

6. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Viewing a Demonstration

Before you start using your new

BOOKMAN, you may want to see a

brief demonstration of what it can do.

When no book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, the demonstration will au-

tomatically 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

Setup menu. Highlight

Disable Demo

and press

ENTER

. To re-enable it, select

Enable Demo

from the Setup menu.

When a book card is installed in your

BOOKMAN, press

. Use the ar-

row keys to highlight the Setup menu

and then select

View Demo

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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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Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at virtu-

ally any screen by pressing

HELP

Press ,

SPACE

, or

to read the

help. Press

BACK

to exit the message.

To read about how to use this dic-

tionary and what the keys do, select

Tutorial

from the Topics menu.

Finding Dictionary Entries

You can find a dictionary entry simply by

typing one or more words at the

Enter a

word

screen and then pressing

ENTER

1. Press

CLEAR

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

To erase a letter, press

BACK

To accent a typed letter, first type the

letter to be accented and then use

or to find the desired accent mark.

3. Press

ENTER

This is a sample dictionary entry.

4. Press ,

SPACE

, or

to see

more.

5. To see the dictionary entries

of the next or previous word

listed in this dictionary, hold

✩

and press

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

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Choosing Multiple Forms

Some words in this dictionary have

more than one form. When the word

you are looking up has multiple forms,

the different forms automatically appear

in a list. Highlight the form you want and

press

ENTER

to see its dictionary entry.

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Correcting Misspellings

If you misspell a word, do not worry.

The dictionary automatically gives you a

list of corrections. Simply use the ar-

row keys to highlight the correction you

want and press

ENTER

to see its dic-

tionary entry. For example, enter

nolij

the

Enter a word

screen. Highlight the

correction you want and press

ENTER

to see its dictionary entry. To go back

to the correction list, press

BACK

➤

Understanding Dictionary Entries

The bold word at the top of the dic-

tionary entry is called the headword.

The headword is followed by its part

of speech and its definition(s). After

the definition(s), you may see other

forms of the word.

Using the Word List

You can also find dictionary entries by

searching for words on the Entries menu.

1. Press

To see a full menu title, press

✻

2. Start typing a word until it is

highlighted. For example,

type law.

You can also highlight words by us-

ing or .

To erase a letter, press

BACK

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

find a dictionary entry

ENTER

find a thesaurus entry

THES

find inflected forms

INFL

find phrases

PHRASE

add word to your list

LIST

find Confusables

✩

4. To go back, press

BACK

Highlighting Words

Another way to look up a word is to

highlight it in text. Then you can find

that word’s dictionary entry, thesaurus

entry, inflections, Confusables, or save

it in your personal list.

1. At any text, press

ENTER

to start

the highlight.

To turn off the highlight, press

BACK

Use the arrow keys to move

the highlight.

3. Do one of the following:

To... Press...

find a dictionary entry

ENTER

find a thesaurus entry

THES

find inflected forms

INFL

find phrases

PHRASE

add word to your list

LIST

find Confusables

✩

4. To go back, press

BACK

Finding Thesaurus Entries

When you see THES flash once in the up-

per right of the screen, the selected word

has a thesaurus entry. A thesaurus entry

can contain a part of speech, a brief mean-

ing, and a list of available synonyms, ant-

onyms, synonymous phrases, and

Classmates

™

(words related by subject).

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word. For example,

type dry.

If you want, press

ENTER

to see its

dictionary entry.

3. Press

THES

(the green key).

4. Use the Direction keys to read.

5. Hold

✩

and press

to see the

next thesaurus entry, if any.

To see a previous thesaurus entry,

hold

✩

and press

6. Press

BACK

to go back.

7. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Finding Phrases

You can find phrases containing spe-

cific words.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word. For example,

type house.

If you want, press

ENTER

to see its

dictionary entry.

3. Press

PHRASE

(the yellow key).

4. Use to highlight a phrase

and then press

ENTER

. For ex-

ample, select keep house.

5. Hold

✩

and press

to see

the next phrase, if any.

To see a previous phrase, hold

✩

and press

6. Press

BACK

to go back to the

list of phrases.

7. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

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