Franklin BOOKMAN MWS-2018 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

™

User’sGuide

MWS-2018

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Electronic Publishers

Mt. Holly, NJ 08060

Cartridge

Dictionary

& Thesaurus

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

BOOKMANisapowerful,portableelec-

tronic reference with a built-in book and

a slot in the back for more books. With

this

Dictionary&Thesaurus

youcanfind

andhear over 83,000dictionary entries,

and 41,000 thesaurus entries with

496,000 synonyms. You can also cor-

rect misspellings, save words to your

Userlist, and playthreefun, educational

word games. To learn how to use other

books, read their User’s Guides.

Installing Cartridges and Selecting Books..................... 4

Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5

Changing Settings ......................................................... 6

Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6

Finding Definitions and Finding Words in Definitions .... 7

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

Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 8

Finding Spellings ........................................................... 9

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

Finding Confusables™ ................................................... 10

Hearing and Reviewing Words ....................................... 11

Using the User List ........................................................ 12

Sending Words .............................................................. 13

Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14

Playing the Games ......................................................... 14

➤ 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 cartridges and listed

in their User’s Guides. For more

information, read “Using the Color

Keys.”

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctua-

tion.

ENTER

Enters a search, selects a

menu item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Shows help messages.

?✱

Types a

to stand for an

unknown letter in a word;

shows Confusables™in text;

shifted, types an

✻

to stand

for a series of unknown letters.

Direction Keys

Move in indicated direction.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Star Key Combinations*

✩+

CARD

Sendsawordbetweenbooks.

✩+ Shows next entry or match.

✩+

Showspreviousentryormatch.

* Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

Key Guide

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears to

Enter your word

Shows the main menus.

THES

(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.

SAY

(green) Says a word.

GAMES

(yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST

(blue) Shows the User list menu.

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Warning: Never install or remove a

cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If

you do, information that you entered

in its built-in book, and in an installed

cartridge, will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the car-

tridge with the notches in

the slot.

4. Press the cartridge down

until it snaps into place.

Installing Cartridges

➤ Removing Cartridges

Warning: When you remove a

cartridge to install another, informa-

tion that you entered in the

removed cartridge will be erased.

Selecting Books

Once you have installed a cartridge in

your BOOKMAN, you must 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.

➤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

Thered,green,yellow,andbluekeyson

your BOOKMAN change functions ac-

cording to which book is selected.

Whenthebuilt-inbookisselected,the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car-

tridgebookisselected,thecolorkeys

function as labelled on that cartridge.

Remember,thecolorkeysforBOOK-

MAN books in cartridges function as

labelled on their cartridges, not as on

the keyboard.

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AC adaptor jack:YourBOOKMAN

may be equipped with a standard 3.5

mm jack for use with a 9-volt, 200-300

milliamp AC/DC adaptor.

This symbol indicates that the inner

core of the plug of an AC adaptor is

negative and that the outer part of the

plug is positive. If your AC/DC adap-

tor does not have this symbol, con-

firmitscompatibilityatitsplaceorpur-

chase.

Headphone jack:YourBOOKMAN

may also have a 3.5 mm stereo head-

phone jack for use with a standard im-

pedance 8 Ohm headset.

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Headphone

jack

AC adaptor

jack

Optional Features

➤ Help is Always at Hand

Youcanviewahelpmessageatvirtu-

ally any screen by pressing

HELP

Pressthedirectionkeystoreadit. To

exit help, press

BACK

HELP

If you want to read an overview of

this product and the key func-

tions, highlight

Tutorial

on the

Other menu and then press

ENTER

➤ 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.

Changing Settings

You can adjust the font size, shutoff

time, and screen contrast. Font size

changes the number of lines of text

that appear on screen. The shutoff

timeishowlongBOOKMANstayson

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.

Beforeyoustartusingthisbook,youcan

view a demonstration of what it can do.

Once you have installed and selected

thecartridge,press MENU andthenthe

arrowkeystohighlight

ViewDemo

the Setup menu. Then press ENTER to

view the demonstration.

Ifyouwanttostopthedemonstration,

press

CLEAR

Viewing a Demonstration

Finding Definitions

It’s easy to look up a word in the dic-

tionary. Simply type it at the Entry

screen and press ENTER . Try this ex-

ample.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word (e.g., knowl-

edge).

To erase a letter, press

BACK

3. Press ENTER .

This is a dictionary entry.

4. Press or SPACE to read.

5. Hold

✩

and press

browse the next dictionary

entry.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Search for a Word

lets you find all of

thedefinitionsinwhichaspecificword

appears.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press MENU .

3. Select Search for a word from

the Other menu.

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

5. Press ENTER .

6. Press or SPACE to read.

7. Hold ✩and press

to view

the next definition with your

word in it.

To see the previous one, hold ✩

and press

8. Press

CLEAR

when done.

FindingWordsinDefinitions

Finding Synonyms

WhenyouseeTHESflashonce inthe

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).

This is the first thesaurus entry.

4. Press to view synonyms.

5. Hold ✩and press

to view

more thesaurus entries.

To return to the previous thesau-

rus entry, hold ✩and press

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Correcting Misspellings

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

will be corrected automatically.

1. Type a misspelled word (e.g.,

nolij).

To erase a letter, press BACK .

2. Press ENTER .

3. Press to highlight a

correction, if needed.

4. Press ENTER to view its dictio-

nary entry.

To go back to the correction list,

press BACK .

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤ Understanding Thesaurus

Entries

Thesaurus entries consist of

thesaurus meanings 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 to

Enter your word

Holding ✩and pressing

takes

you to the previous screen of

similar information. For example, if

you were viewing a dictionary

definition, you would go to the

previous definition.

Ifyou areuncertain about howto spell

a word, type a question mark (

) in

place of each unknown letter.

To find prefixes, suffixes, and other

parts of words, type an asterisk (

✽

) in

a word. Each asterisk stands for a se-

ries of letters or spaces.

NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the

beginningofaword,itmaytakeawhile

to find the matching words.

1. Type a word with ?’s or an ✽.

To type an asterisk, hold

CAP

and

press

? ✻

2. Press ENTER .

3. Highlight a match.

4. Press ENTER to define it.

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Synonyms Finding Spellings

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