Franklin BOOKMAN FLX-2074 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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MovieViews®

USER’S GUIDE

FLX-2074

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Contents

Key Guide ....................................................................... 1

Introduction .................................................................... 3

Installing a Book Card ..................................................... 3

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

Using the Color Keys ....................................................... 4

Viewing the Demonstration ............................................. 5

Finding Movies by Title .................................................... 5

Using the Movies Menu ................................................... 6

Finding Movies by Cast ................................................... 7

Finding Movies by Director.............................................. 8

Finding Movies by Theme ................................................ 8

Finding Movies by Year ................................................... 9

Searching by a Range of Years ........................................ 9

Searching by Other Categories ...................................... 10

Searching by Multiple Categories .................................. 11

Using Bookmarks .......................................................... 12

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

Hangman ....................................................................... 13

Movie Quiz .................................................................... 14

Changing the Settings ................................................... 15

Book Card Care ............................................................ 16

Copyrights and Patents ................................................. 16

Key Guide

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

Pages up or down.

In a movie review goes

to the beginning or end.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

Moves down within a movie

review.

✩

Moves up in a movie review.

✩

Types numbers (1 to 0).

Color Keys

CAST

(red) Shows the Cast

Member’s

menu.

(green) Prompts you to search

for words in movie titles.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the Games

menu.

THEME

(blue) ShowstheThememenu

Function Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

ends a highlight.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

CLEAR

Clears an entry.

ENTER

Selects a highlighted word in

text.

HELP

Shows help messages.

Goes to the main menus.

ON/OFF

Turns the BOOKMAN on

or off.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

*Note: Hold down

✩

while pressing the other key.

CAP

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow,

and blue) perform the functions

listed above only for the book card

described in this User’s Guide.

Other book cards have their own

color key functions, which are la-

belled on the book cards. For more

information, read “Using the Color

Keys.”

Installing a Book CardIntroduction

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.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while the BOOKMAN is

turned on. All the data you entered

into the built-in book, and in your

Movie Views

book card, will be lost.

➤ Removing a Book Card

➤ About Screen Illustrations

The screen illustrations in this User’s

Guide may differ from what is actu-

ally seen on the screen. This does

not mean that your BOOKMAN is

malfunctioning.

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

The BOOKMAN is an electronic unit

with a built-in book inside. A slot in the

back lets you snap in book cards from

Franklin’s electronic library. The prod-

uct is portable; it can go with you

anywhere.

The

Movie Views™

book card provides

a guide to 9,500 movies. It

is de-

signed to help you search quickly for

movie titles, director’s, cast, themes,

critics, or ratings. Using different cat-

egories, the searches show who won

Academy Awards, what year, or details

on cast members.

Movie Views

title

word searches help you choose mov-

ies to see.

Once this book card has been installed in

the BOOKMAN you can select which

book 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 Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change their functions

according to which book you are using.

When you are using the built-in book,

the color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When you are

using a book card, the color keys func-

tion as labelled on that book card.

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➤Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off your BOOKMAN at

any time. When you turn on your

BOOKMAN, 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

menus or view more text.

Viewing the Demonstration

Before you use this book, you may want

to see a brief demonstration.

First be certain that this book card is in-

stalled in your BOOKMAN and that you

have selected it. To learn how, read “In-

stalling a Book Card” and “Selecting a

Book.” Then follow these steps.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Use the arrow keys to

highlight View Demo on the

Setup menu.

3. Press

ENTER

to start the

demo.

4. To stop the demo, press

CLEAR

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at vir-

tually any screen by pressing

HELP

Use the direction keys to read it. To

exit help, press

BACK

To see a tutorial and key guide de-

scribing the functions of this book

card, select

Tutorial

from the Setup

menu.

The fastest way to find movies is to do a

Title Word Search.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

(green) to go to

the Title Word Search screen.

3. Type one or more words from

a movie title.

You do not have to type capital letters.

4. Press

ENTER

5. Use and to highlight a

title, and then press

ENTER

6. Use the and to scroll

through the movie review, or

Finding Movies by Title

Using the Movies Menu

Finding Movies by Title

You can also search for movie titles on

the Movies menu.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a movie title (e.g., Big)

until it is highlighted.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Use to read the movie

review.

5. To go to the next movie

review alphabetically listed

on the Movies menu, hold

✩

and press .

Or hold

✩

and press to go to

the previous review.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

CAP and to go to

beginning or end, or use

spacebar. (see Key Guide)

7. Hold

✩

and press or

key go to the next or previ-

ous title found by your

search.

8. To return to the list of your

matches, press

9. Press

BACK

repeatedly to

return to the Title Word

Search screen. Or press

CLEAR

to clear your search.

Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Cast

The Cast Members menu lets you find

movies by the stars that played in them.

1. Press

CAST

(red).

Or select

Cast Members

from the

Search menu.

2. Begin typing a cast member’s

name (e.g., Marvin, Lee).

Cast members’ names should be

typed as they appear, with the last

name first.

3. Press

ENTER

when the name is

highlighted.

If you check more than one cast

member, the

search includes mov-

ies featuring all of the cast mem-

bers. To deselect a cast member,

press

ENTER

again.

4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to

select more cast members.

5. Press to view the films

featuring that cast member

you selected.

6. Press

ENTER

to select a movie.

7. To return to the Cast Mem-

bers menu, press

CAST

8. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤Selecting More than One

Cast Member

MovieViews can search for movies

that feature several cast members.

From the Search menu, select a

cast member and then press

ENTER

Scroll down or type in name and

then press to view matches.

Press

ENTER

again to view other

cast members. Scroll down and

press

ENTER

again to view other

movies of that cast member.

Press

ENTER

again and then scroll to

the cast member you want.

Finding Movies by Director

You can also search for movies that

have a specific director. Also, by se-

lecting more than one director,

MovieViews

searches for films di-

rected by all of the selected directors.

1. Select Directors from the

Search menu.

2. Begin typing a director’s

name (e.g., Stone, Oliver).

3. Press

ENTER

when the director

is highlighted.

4. Press or

to view

movies.

5. Press

ENTER

to select a movie.

6. To return to the Directors

menu, press

BACK

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Movies by Theme

You can search through 550 movie

themes, and some movies have more

than 10 themes. A theme is the central

idea of the film (e.g.,

Drama

Abduc-

tion (1975)

. You can search for films

that share more than one theme.

1. Press

THEME

(blue), or select

from the Search menu, and

then press

ENTER

2. Begin typing the desired

theme (e.g., desert).

3. When the theme is high-

lighted, press

ENTER

4. Press or

to view

movies.

5. Press

ENTER

to select a movie.

6. To return to the Theme menu,

press

BACK

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

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