Franklin BOOKMAN MWS-840 Manuale utente

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Electronic Publishers

Dictionary

& Thesaurus

™

User’s Guide

MWS-840

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Electronic Publishers

License Agreement

READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN

BOOK CARD.

YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN BOOK CARD DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT

THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE

TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO

THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN BOOK

CARD AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN

BOOK CARD means the software product and documentation found in this

package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.

LIMITED USE LICENSE

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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

you can find

andhear over 83,000 dictionary entries,

and 41,000 thesaurus entries with

496,000 synonyms. You can also cor-

rect misspellings, save words to your

Userlist, and play three fun, educational

word games. To learn how to use other

books, read their User’s Guides.

Installing Batteries and Book Cards .............................. 4

Selecting a Book ........................................................... 5

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

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

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

Finding Definitions and 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

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

Key Guide

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up, erases letters, or

stops a highlight.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

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.

✩+ DN Shows next entry or match.

✩+ UP

Showspreviousentryormatch.

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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 and

listed in their User’s Guides. For

more information, read “Using the

Color Keys.”

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.

* Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

BOOKMAN model 840 uses four

AAA batteries. Here is how to install

or replace them.

Warning: When the batteries lose

power or are removed from BOOK-

MAN, information that you entered in

its built-in book, and in an 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 follow-

ing the diagram inside the

battery case.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card when your BOOKMAN is

on. If you do, information that you en-

tered in its built-in book, and in an in-

stalled book card, 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.

Installing Book CardsInstalling Batteries

➤

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 your BOOKMAN off

at any screen. When you turn it

on again, the screen that you last

viewed appears.

Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys

Thered,green,yellow,and bluekeys 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 card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MAN books in cards function as la-

belled on their cards, not as on the

keyboard.

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.

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➤

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 BOOK-

MAN is malfunctioning.

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

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 to select it.

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.

Before you start using this book, you

can view a demonstration of what it

can do.

The demonstration automatically ap-

pears the first time that you press

ON/OFF

. If you want to stop the demon-

stration, press

CLEAR

. To disable it,

press

, highlight the Setup menu,

and then select

Disable Demo

Viewing a Demonstration

➤

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at vir-

tually any screen by pressing

HELP

Press the Direction keys to read it.

To exit help, press

BACK

HELP

If you want to read an overview

of this product and the key’s

functions, 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.

Finding Definitions

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

nary. Simply type it at the Entry screen

and press ENTER . Try this example.

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 DN to

browse the next dictionary

entry.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

FindingWordsinDefinitions

Search for a Word

lets you find all of

the definitions in which a specific word

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 DN to view

the next definition with your

word in it.

To see the previous one, hold ✩

and press UP.

8. Press

CLEAR

when done.

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

This is the first thesaurus entry.

4. Press to view synonyms.

5. Hold ✩and press DN to view

more thesaurus entries.

To return to the previous thesau-

rus entry, hold ✩and press UP.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

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.

4. Press ENTER to view its dictio-

nary entry.

To go back to the correction list,

press BACK .

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Correcting Misspellings

Finding Spellings

If you are uncertain about how to 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

beginning of a word, it may take awhile

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

➤

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 UP

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.

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