Franklin BOOKMAN MWD-2001 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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Dictionary

and Thesaurus

USER’S GUIDE

MWD-2001

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Contents

ings; save words to your User list; and

play three fun, educational word games.

Use your BOOKMAN to read this book

card. See “Installing Book Cards” to

learn how.

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

With this

Dictionary & Thesaurus

you

can find over 83,000 dictionary entries;

41,000 thesaurus entries with 496,000

synonyms; as well as correct misspell-

Installing a Book Card & Selecting a Book ..................... 3

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

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

Finding Definitions ........................................................ 5

Finding Words in Definitions.......................................... 6

Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 6

Finding Spellings........................................................... 7

Finding Parts of Words .................................................. 8

Correcting Misspellings................................................. 8

Highlighting Words ........................................................ 9

Finding Confusables™ ................................................... 9

Reviewing Words........................................................... 10

Saving Words ................................................................ 10

Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 12

Changing Game Settings ............................................... 12

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

Copyrights & Patents..................................................... 16

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sendsawordbetweenbooks.

✩

Shows next entry or match.

✩

Shows previous entry or

match.

✩

Shows Confusables™.

✩

Shows the Path list.

✩

Shows thesaurus entries.

Color Keys

THES

(red) Shows thesaurus entries.

CONF

(green) Shows Confusables™.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST

(blue) ShowstheUserlistmenu.

Function Keys

BACK

Backs up and erases letters.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctua-

tion.

CLEAR

Clears to

Enter your word

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

Shows the main menus.

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

?✱

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shifted, types an

✽

to stand for

a series of unknown letters.

Key Guide

*Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the BOOKMAN book

card 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.”

Installing a Book Card

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while your BOOKMAN is

turned on. If you do, information that you

entered in its built-in book and in an in-

stalled book 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.

Selecting a Book

Once you have installed a book card in

your BOOKMAN, you must 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.

➤ Removing a Book Card

Warning: When you remove a book

card to install another, information

that you have entered in the removed

book card will be erased.

➤About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this

User’s Guide may differ from what

you see on the actual screen. This

does not mean that your BOOK-

MAN is malfunctioning

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 function

as labelled on that book card.

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Using the Setup menu, you can adjust the

fontsize,shutofftime,and screen contrast.

The font size changes the number of lines

of text that appear on screen. The shutoff

time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if

you forget to turn it off.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press MENU .

3. Press the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

4. Highlight Set Font, Set

Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

5. Press ENTER .

6. Highlight a setting.

Or press or if you selected

Set Contrast

. To exit without

changing settings, press

BACK

7. Press ENTER to select it.

Changing Settings

➤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.

Before you begin playing the games, you

may want to view a brief demonstration de-

scribinghow to use this book. Simply install

the book card and then follow these steps.

1. Press MENU and highlight the

Setup menu, if necessary.

2. Press to highlight View Demo.

3. Press ENTER to start the

demonstration.

4. To stop the demonstration at

any time, press

CLEAR

Finding Definitions

It’s easy to look up a word in this dictio-

nary. Simply type it and press ENTER . Try

this example.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word

(e.g., knowledge).

You cannot type capitals. To erase a

letter, press BACK .

3. Press ENTER .

This is a dictionary entry.

4. Press or SPACE to read.

5. Hold ✩and press

view the next dictionary

entry alphabetically listed.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Viewing a Demonstration

➤ 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 need a reminder of what each

key does, select

Tutorial

from the

CMDS 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 Synonyms

When you see THES flash once in the

upper right of the screen, that word has

a thesaurus entry.

1. Press

CLEAR

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

3. Press

THES

(red).

Or hold

✩

and press T.

This is its first thesaurus entry.

4. Press to view synonyms.

5. Hold ✩and press

view the next thesaurus entry.

To return to the previous thesaurus

entry, hold

✩

and press

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Search for a Word

lets you find all of the

definitions in which a specific word ap-

pears.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press MENU .

3. Select Search for a word from

the CMDS menu.

4. Type a word (e.g., legal).

5. Press ENTER .

6. Press or SPACE to read.

7. Hold ✩and press

repeatedly to view the next

dictionary entry with your

word.

To see a previous one, hold

✩

and press

8. Press

CLEAR

when done.

FindingWordsinDefinitions

Finding Synonyms

If you are uncertain how to spell a word,

type a question mark in place of each un-

known letter.

1. Type a word with ?’s.

2. Press ENTER .

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press ENTER to define it.

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Spellings

➤ Spelling Finding Tips

You can also use ?’s to help solve

crossword puzzles. For example, if the

second letter of a five-letter word is

and its last letter is

. Enter

?h??w

view possible answers.

➤ Understanding Thesaurus

Entries

A thesaurus entry consists of a

thesaurus meaning and a synonym

list. A thesaurus meaning is a

definition shared by a list of

synonyms.

➤ Two Ways to Back Up

Pressing

BACK

takes you back to the

previous screen you viewed. You

can continue to back up until you get

Enter your word

Holding

✩

and pressing

takes

you to the previous screen of similar

information. For example, if you

were viewing a dictionary entry, you

would go to the previous dictionary

entry.

Finding Parts of Words

To find prefixes, suffixes, and other parts

of words, type an asterisk in a word.

Asterisks stand for a series of letters.

NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the be-

ginning of a word, it may take a while to

find the matching words.

1. Type a word with an ✽.

To type an asterisk, hold

CAP

and

press

? ✻

2. Press ENTER .

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press ENTER to define it.

To go back to the list of matches,

press

BACK

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Correcting Misspellings

If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It will

be corrected automatically.

1. Type a misspelled word.

To erase a letter, press

BACK

2. Press ENTER .

3. Press to highlight a

correction.

4. Press ENTER to view its dictio-

nary entry.

To go back to the correction list,

press

BACK

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

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