Franklin BOOKMAN GWH-2055 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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The PDR Family Guide to

WOMEN’S HEALTH

and Prescription Drugs

™

USER’S GUIDE

GWH-2055

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Contents

Using your new

PDR® Family Guide

to Women’s Health and Prescription

Drugs™

book card, you can read

more than 40 chapters dealing with

women and their specific health is-

sues. You can also learn about more

than 350 brand and generic drugs

that are often prescribed to women.

In addition, this electronic book has

powerful features that let you search

for any word and instantly go to

cross-references.

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

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

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

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

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

Changing the Settings ..................................................... 5

Reading Health Topics ..................................................... 6

Reading Drug Profiles ..................................................... 7

Searching for Words ....................................................... 9

Highlighting Search Words............................................ 10

Reading Cross-references ............................................. 11

Using the Index ............................................................. 12

Sending Words Between Books .................................... 12

Book Card Care ............................................................. 13

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

Key Guide

Color Keys

HEALTH

(red) Displays the Health menu.

DRUG

(green) Displays the Drugs

menu.

INDEX

(yellow) Displays the Index.

(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 search 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 the Health or Drugs

menu, go directly to the related

text. At text, highlight the first vis-

ible cross-reference ( ).

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.

➤ 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.

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 off your BOOKMAN.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs of the book

card with the notches in a

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.

2The Quick keys perform these functions only

when you’re reading a drug profile.

Selecting a Book

Once you have installed the book

card in your BOOKMAN, you can

select which book you want to use.

1. Turn on your BOOKMAN.

2. Press

CARD

3. Press or to highlight a

book symbol.

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 on

your BOOKMAN again, the

screen that you last viewed ap-

pears.

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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Viewing a Demonstration

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Help is Always at Hand

You can read a help message at vir-

tually any screen by pressing

HELP

Press or

to read the mes-

sage. Press

BACK

to exit it.

To read a tutorial about how to

use this book, select

Tutorial

from

the Setup menu.

Before you begin, you may want to

see a brief demonstration of how to

use this book. Simply 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

to start the dem-

onstration.

5. To stop the demonstration,

press

CLEAR

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.

Reading Health Topics

It’s easy to read about women’s

health topics. Here’s how.

1. Press

HEALTH

(the red key). Or

press

CLEAR

, highlight Health,

and then press

ENTER

2. Highlight a chapter title. For ex-

ample, highlight 3 PMS: Sorting

Fact from Fiction.

To highlight a chapter title, scroll

down to it or type its number.

To type a chapter number, hold

✩

and press the numbered keys. To

undo a number, press

BACK

To go to the bottom or top of a

menu, hold

CAP

and press or

To see the full title of any menu item,

highlight the item and then press

3. Press

ENTER

4. Highlight a section title and

then press

ENTER

to select it.

For example, select Deciding

Whether You Have It.

To highlight a section title, scroll to

it or type its first few letters.

Note: Some sections have sub-

sections. If needed, select a sub-

section title in the same way that

you selected a section title.

5. Use ,

, or

SPACE

to scroll.

6. To go to the next or previous

section, hold

✩

and press

7. To go back to the menu, press

BACK

8. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Reading Health Topics

Reading Health Topics Reading Drug Profiles

If you know the brand or generic

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

drug profile.

1. Press

DRUG

(the green key).

Or press

CLEAR

, highlight

Drugs,

and then press

ENTER

2. Press

ENTER

to select Drug

Profiles.

3. Type a brand or generic drug

name. For example, type Tylenol

To undo a letter, press

BACK

4. When the drug is high-

lighted, press

ENTER

5. Highlight a section (for ex-

ample, Most Important Fact)

and then press

ENTER

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Where in the Book Are You?

When you’re reading the text of a

health topic or drug profile, you

can see the Outline location of the

current text by pressing

To scroll to the higher levels of the

Outline, use .

To display the full title of an item,

which is especially useful when the

title ends in ellipses, press

Press

BACK

to go back to the

text you were just reading. Or

press

ENTER

to go to the text of

the highlighted item.

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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 Drug Profiles

To highlight a section, scroll down

or type its first few letters.

6. Use ,

, or

SPACE

to scroll.

7. To go to the next or previous

section, hold

✩

and press

Or use the Quick keys. To learn how,

read “Using the Quick Keys” in the

next column.

8. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

➤

If You Misspell a Drug Name

If you misspell a drug name while

typing at the Drugs menu, the spell-

ing correction mode appears.

Type the remainder of the name to

the best of your knowledge. Then

press

ENTER

to see the corrections.

Then highlight a correction and press

ENTER

to see its drug profile.

Reading Drug Profiles

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Using the Quick Keys

When you’re reading a drug profile,

you can quickly go to any section of

the profile by using these keys.

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

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A Shortcut to Drug Profiles

To go directly from a drug name

on the Drugs menu to its drug

profile, hold

✩

and press

ENTER

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