Franklin BookMan GDS-2026 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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USER’S GUIDE

GDS-2026

Great Documents

of American History

License Agreement

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TRONIC BOOK.

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOK-

MAN®! With this compilation of great

documents, you can read over 60 of

the most important documents and

speeches to have shaped America. In

addition, most have background infor-

mation on topics such as the causes,

provisions, results, dates, and people

related to the documents. You can lo-

cate a document from the list or cus-

tomize your searches to find docu-

ments by subject, people, year, or the

type of document. You can also find

facts about U.S. presidents at the

touch of a key. There are also two quiz

games that test your knowledge of

America’s history.

Use your BOOKMAN to read this

book card. See “Installing Book

Cards” to learn how.

Installing Book Cards and Selecting Books ........................3

Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings ......................4

A Note From the Editors .....................................................5

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

Finding a Document ...........................................................6

Reading the Document .......................................................6

Viewing the Notes ..............................................................7

Using the Locate Menu .......................................................8

Using the Search Screen ....................................................9

Finding Parts of Words .......................................................10

Reading About Presidents ..................................................11

Playing the Games..............................................................12

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

Resetting BOOKMAN .........................................................13

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up a step or erases a letter.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation

at the search screen.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

?✱

Expands a menu name; shifted,

types an

✽

at the search screen.

Direction Keys

Moves down one line; in

games, gives a hint.

Moves up one line; in games,

shows the score.

Move left or right.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Star Key Combinations

✩

CARD

Sends a word between books.

✩

ENTER

Goes to background text

from the list of documents

or highlights showing icons.

✩

Shows next entry or match.

✩

Showspreviousentryormatch.

Function Keys

CLEAR Clears to the main menus.

MENU Shows the main menus.

PRES

(red) Goes to the Facts about

the presidents list.

TEXT

(green) Skips background informa-

tion and goes directly to the text of

the document.

GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST (blue) Key has no function.

CARD Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Key Guide

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color 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 color key functions, which are

labelled on their book cards or on the

keyboard. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.”

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 BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the book

card with the notches in the

slot.

4. Press the book card until it

snaps into place.

Selecting Books

Once you have installed a book card

in your BOOKMAN, you can select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn 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.

➤ Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove a

book card to install another,

information that you entered in the

removed book card will be erased.

➤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.

Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change functions ac-

cording 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 is selected, the color keys func-

tion as labelled on that book card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MAN books in book cards function as

labelled on their book cards, not as on

the keyboard.

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You can adjust the type size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast. The type

size changes the number of lines of

text that appear on screen. The shut-

off time is how long BOOKMAN stays

on if you forget to turn it off.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

3. Highlight Set Type Size, Set

Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

4. Press

ENTER

5. Highlight a setting.

Or press or if you selected

Set Contrast

6. Press

ENTER

to select it.

To exit without changing settings,

press

BACK

Changing Settings

Viewing a DemonstrationA Note From the Editors

The editors at Franklin Electronic Pub-

lishers wish to note that the documents

in this book were taken word for word

from copies of original documents wher-

ever possible.

Archaic spellings and use of uppercase

were corrected to their modern versions

(for example: “... for all manner of Mynes

of Gold, Sylver, and Copper...” was cor-

rected to “...for all mines of gold, silver,

and copper...”). However, obsolete

words were not changed (for example:

“hath” remained as is, and was not

changed to “has”). The older documents

in particular contain words that are now

considered obsolete.

Likewise, many of the older documents

have no headings, sections, or para-

graphs. In order to make them easier to

read, we added sections where appro-

priate for those documents.

Brackets were used to show where any

word or section heading was added, or

any word was edited (except for spelling

and case).

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, simply select

View Demo

from the Setup menu to view the demo.

When a book card is not 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 then

select

Disable Demo

from the Setup

menu. To re-enable it, select

Enable

➤ 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

If you want to read a tutorial, select

Tutorial

from the Setup menu.

➤ Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move around

menus or to view more text.

Finding a Document Reading the Document

There are two ways to find a document

from the Documents list. You can scroll

to the document, or you can type the

name at the Documents list. Docu-

ments are listed by date from oldest

to newest. Some documents have

background information while others

have only the document’s text.

Scrolling to a Document

1. Press

CLEAR

to go to the

Documents list.

2. Press repeatedly to highlight

Mayflower Compact (1620).

Using the Alpha-search

1. Press

CLEAR

to go to the

Documents list.

2. Start typing MA to highlight

Mayflower Compact (1620).

The slanted arrow at the right of

the line means that there are

submenus below.

Here is how to read a document and its

background information. Background in-

formation consists of the causes, provi-

sions, results, signatories, dates, and

source of the document.

Go to the

Mayflower Compact

and fol-

low these steps.

1. Press

ENTER

to go to its

submenu.

To bypass the submenu and go

directly to the

Mayflower

Compact’s

text, press

TEXT

instead.

2. Press

ENTER

to go to the

background information.

3. Press

ENTER

again to select

Causes.

4. Press repeatedly to scroll

down line by line or press

SPACE

to scroll down screen

by screen.

▲▲

Reading a Document Viewing the Notes

5. Hold

CAP

and press to

zoom to the next topic

heading.

To zoom back to the previous topic

heading, hold

CAP

and press .

6. Press

BACK

repeatedly to back

up.

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Throughout this book, you will see bib-

liography, cross-reference, and foot-

note icons. They have added informa-

tion on the document you are reading.

Here’s how to view them.

1. Go to a document with a

, , or icon.

2. Hold

✩

and press

ENTER

highlight the first icon.

To highlight another icon on screen,

press

✩

plus

ENTER

again.

3. Press

ENTER

to go to the note.

4. Press

BACK

to go back to the

document.

5. Press

BACK

again to turn off

the highlight.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤Text Viewing Tips

To... Press...

Go directly to the text

TEXT

of a document from

the Documents list

Zoom to the next

CAP

topic heading

Zoom to the previous

CAP

topic heading

With Great Documents you have the

option of searching for a document by

using these filters:

Subject

People

Year

, and

Document type

. This makes

finding documents by topic quick and

easy. Try this example.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press or to highlight the

Locate menu.

3. Press and then

ENTER

select People as a filter.

4. Start typing Franklin,

Benjamin.

5. Press

ENTER

The check shows that

Franklin,

Benjamin

is selected as a filter. To

deselect a filter, press

ENTER

again.

Press now to go the list of

Using the Locate Menu

matches for Benjamin Franklin, or

go on to add another filter.

6. Press

BACK

twice to go back

to the Locate menu.

The check shows that a person is

currently selected as a filter.

7. Press and then

ENTER

select Subject as a filter.

8. Select a subject (e.g., Consti-

tution and its Precursors).

9. Press to go to the new list

of matches.

10. Highlight a document and

press

TEXT

to go directly to

the text, or press

ENTER

to go

to its submenus.

➤Clearing All Filters

If you want to clear the filters you’ve

chosen and don’t want to go back

and deselect each one, select

Clear

all filters

from the Locate menu.

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