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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B
OO
K
MAN
USER’S GUIDE
EMQ-640
Hutchinson
Popular
Encyclopedia
1
License Agreement
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Contents
Installing Batteries ........................................................ 5
Installing a Book Card ................................................... 5
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 6
Using the Colour Keys ................................................... 6
Changing the Settings ................................................... 7
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 7
Finding Encyclopedia Articles ....................................... 8
Searching for Words ...................................................... 9
Expanding Your Searches ............................................ 10
Highlighting Search Words .......................................... 11
Using Cross-References .............................................. 12
Using Bookmarks ........................................................ 13
Sending a Word Between Books .................................. 14
Resetting Your BOOKMAN .......................................... 14
Specifications .............................................................. 15
Limited Warranty ......................................................... 15
Index ............................................................................ 16
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Introduction Key Guide
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®!
With your new EMQ-640 you can carry
and read the
Hutchinson Popular Ency-
clopedia
anywhere. Your new elec-
tronic encyclopedia has over 17,000
articles, many of which include chro-
nologies that highlight historical events
related to the subject of the article.
You can also search for words, expand
your searches to find more articles,
read cross-references, and even add
your own bookmarks to quickly find
the articles you read most often.
Read this User’s Guide to learn how.
Colour Keys
MORE
(red) Expands a word search.
X-REF
(green) Highlights, or selects, a
cross-reference.
SEARCH
(yellow) Goes to the word
search screen.
LIST
(blue) Displays your bookmark
list, and lets you add or
remove bookmarks.
➤
Understanding the Colour Keys
The colour keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed above only for the book de-
scribed in this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN books have their
own colour key functions, which are
labeled on their keyboards or book
cards. To learn more, read “Using
the Colour Keys.”
➤
About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This does not
mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
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Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Erases a letter, backs up, or
turns off the highlight in an
article.
CAP
Shifts the keys to type capitals or
punctuation.
CARD
Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR
Clears all of your entries.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, enters
search words, or starts a
highlight.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
?✽
At an article, displays the
article location. At a menu,
displays a full menu title. With
CAP
, types an ✻to stand for
a series of letters.
SPACE
Types a space, or pages down.
Direction Keys
Moves in the indicated
direction, or moves the cursor
or highlight.
DN
UP
Pages down or up.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
BACK
Goes to the main menu
from a submenu.
✩
+
ENTER
At a menu, goes directly to
the text of an article. At an
article, highlights cross-
references or bookmarks.
✩
+
DN
Goes to the next or
previous article or word
search match.
✩
+ Types a hyphen.
✩
+ Q-
P
Types numbers.
CAP
+ Goes to the bottom or
top of menus. In entries
with multiple sections,
goes to the next or
previous section.
CAP
+ In an article, goes to the
top of an article.
* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.
or
UP
or
5
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you have entered in the built-in book,
as well as in any other installed book
cards, may be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs of the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Installing a Book CardInstalling Batteries
Your BOOKMAN 640 model is pow-
ered by four LR03 batteries (AAA bat-
teries). Here is how to install or
replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from your
BOOKMAN, information that you en-
tered in its built-in book as well as in
any installed book card will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries as shown
in the diagram in the battery
compartment.
4. Replace the battery cover.
➤
Removing Book Cards
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another, informa-
tion that you entered in the removed
book card may be erased.
➤
Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around the
screen.
6
Selecting a Book
Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you can 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.
➤
Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN at
any time. When you turn your
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed reappears.
Using the Colour Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of your BOOKMAN
change their functions according to
which book you have selected.
If you have selected the built-in book,
the colour keys function as labeled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have
selected a book card, the colour keys
function as labeled on that card.
Remember, when you have selected a
book card, the colour keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.
7
Changing the Settings
You can adjust the type size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast of this book.
The shutoff time is how long your BOOK-
MAN stays on if you forget to turn it off.
The screen contrast is how light or
dark the screen display appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3.
Press to highlight Set Type
Size, Set Shutoff, or Set
Contrast.
A slanted arrow indicates a submenu.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press or to change the
setting.
To leave the settings unchanged,
press
BACK
.
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Viewing a Demonstration
Before you start using your new
BOOKMAN, you may want to see a
brief demonstration of what it can do.
When no book card is 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
MENU
,
and use the arrow keys to highlight the
Setup menu. Highlight
Disable Demo
and press
ENTER
. To re-enable it, select
Enable Demo
from the Setup menu.
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, press
MENU
. Then use the
arrow keys to highlight the Setup
menu. Then select
View Demo
.
➤
Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press or
DN
to read the help.
Press
BACK
to exit the message.
To read about how to use this ency-
clopedia and what the keys do,
select
Tutorial
from the Setup menu.
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Finding Encyclopedia Articles
Finding Encyclopedia Articles
Or select a submenu item, if needed.
4. Press ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to scroll
down to read the text.
5. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to view
the next article in this
encyclopedia.
To view the previous article in this en-
cyclopedia, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
6. To go back to the Articles
menu, press
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
to clear your request.
The Articles menu lists all the articles
in this encyclopedia alphabetically by
title. Finding an article is as easy as
typing the name of its title.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
The Articles menu is highlighted.
2. Start typing an article title.
For example, type zebra.
You do not need to type capitals.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
To display a full menu title, press
?✽
.
You can also find article titles by us-
ing the Direction keys at the
Articles menu.
3. When the title is highlighted,
press
ENTER
to see its article.
➤
What Article Are You Reading?
When you are reading an encyclope-
dia article, you can view its title or
Article location by pressing
?✽
.
Press
BACK
to go back to the article.
9
Searching for Words
You can search for words occurring in
articles and their titles. Each occur-
rence that you find is called a match.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
SEARCH
(the yellow key).
3. Type up to four words. For
example, type roman empire.
You don’t need to type capitals, but
if you want to, hold
✩
and press a
letter key.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
To type a space, press
SPACE
.
4. Press
ENTER
to search.
5. Use the Direction keys to
highlight a title and then
press
ENTER
to view its article.
Searching for Words
The matching words are boxed.
6. Hold
✩
and press
DN
repeat-
edly to view the next matches.
To view a previous match, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
7. Press
BACK
to go back to the
list of matches.
8. Press
SEARCH
(yellow) to clear your
search and begin a new one.
➤
If You Misspell a Word
If you enter a misspelled search
word, a list of corrections appears.
Highlight a correction and press
ENTER
to search for it.
➤
Finding Incomplete Words
If you are not sure which form of a word
to search for, type an asterisk in place of
letters in the word (e.g.,
psych✻
) and
then press
ENTER
. To type an asterisk,
hold
CAP
and press
?✽
.
Next, highlight a complete word and
press
ENTER
to search for it.
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