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Electronic Publishers
ADVANCED THESAURUS
Electronic Publishers
User’s Guide
ATH-440
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE 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 CAR- TRIDGE AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE means the software product and documentation found in this pack- age and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOK- 440), you can find a total of more MAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, than 500,000 synonyms, antonyms, ™ ™ portable electronic reference with a Classmates , and Confusables . built-in book and the ability to use You can also play three exciting word books in cartridges. With your new games at different skill levels. Read Franklin Advanced Thesaurus (ATH- this User’s Guide to learn how! Installing Batteries ........................................................ 4
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Key Guide Function Keys Other Keys BACK CLEAR Erases a letter, shows a previous Clears the word you entered. screen, or unhighlights a word. MENU Shows the menu. CAP Shifts keys to type capitals. SKILL (red) Shows the game skill levels. ENTER Looks up a word, selects a menu item, or highlights a word. CONF (green) Shows Confusables (words that you may confuse with others). HELP Shows a help message. ✱ Types a ? to stand for a letter in GAMES ? (yellow) Shows games you can play. a word (shifted,
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Installing Batteries Installing Cartridges The BOOKMAN 440 model uses Warning: Never install or remove a two CR2032, 3-volt batteries. Here BOOKMAN cartridge when your is how to install or replace them. BOOKMAN is on. If you do, informa- tion you have entered in the built-in Warning: When the batteries lose book as well as in the cartridge will be power or are removed from BOOK- erased. MAN, information that you have en- tered in its built-in book as well as in 1. Turn BOOKMAN off. any installe
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Selecting Books Using the Color Keys Once you have installed a cartridge The red, green, yellow, and blue keys in your BOOKMAN, you can select change functions according to which which book you want to use. book you are using. When you have selected and are us- 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. ing the built-in book, the color keys 2. Press . CARD function as labelled on the keyboard. When you are using a BOOKMAN cartridge, the color keys function as labelled on that cartridge. These are sample books. 3. Pr
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Changing Settings Viewing a Demonstration You can adjust the font size and When no book cartridge is installed in shutoff time of this book. The font your BOOKMAN, a demonstration size sets how large the letters ap- automatically appears after you select pear on screen. The shutoff time this book. To stop the demo, press sets how long your BOOKMAN . To disable it, press CLEAR MENU stays on if you forget to turn it off. and then select Disable Demo. To re- enable it, select Enable Demo. 1. Press
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Finding Synonyms Finding Synonyms To look up synonyms, simply type a word ➤ Understanding Thesaurus Entries and then press . Try this example. ENTER When you see THES flash in the up- 1. Press . CLEAR per right of the screen, the entered or 2. Type a word (e.g., happy). highlighted word has a thesaurus en- try. Each thesaurus entry begins with the word’s part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) and a brief definition. CAP To type capitals, hold . Then synonyms, Classmates, and To erase a le
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™ Correcting Misspellings Finding Confusables Don’t worry if you misspell a word. Confusables are words that sound Corrections automatically appear. alike or are spelled similarly. When you see CONF flash in the upper 1. Press . CLEAR right of the screen, the entered or 2. Type a misspelled word highlighted word has Confusables. (e.g., ecskwizzit). Try this example. 3. Press ENTER . 1. Type rein. 2. Press . ENTER Notice that CONF flashes. 3. Press CONF . 4. Highlight a correction. 5. Press ENTER
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Highlighting Words Sending Words Another way to find synonyms and You can look up words from this Confusables is by highlighting words book in certain other BOOKMAN in thesaurus entries. Try this ex- books, and vice versa. ample. To send or receive a word to or from another book, you must first install a 1. Type demeanor. book cartridge in your BOOKMAN, 2. Press . ENTER and that cartridge must be able to 3. Press ENTER again. send or receive words, too. To learn Notice the highlight. You can tur
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Playing the Games Playing the Games Picking Levels and Games Playing Anagrams You can pick a skill level before you Anagrams challenges you to find play or during a game. If you pick a anagrams of a word. (An anagram is level during a game, the new level a word formed from all or some of does not take effect until the next the letters of another word.) round begins. To play, type an anagram and then • To pick a skill level, first press press . Use the arrows to ENTER SKILL . Then highlight a lev
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LBS. Playing the Games Cartridge Care ™ • Do not touch the metal con- Playing Word Train tacts on the book cartridges. All aboard! You and the Word Train take Caution: Touching these electrical turns typing letters to form a word. contacts with statically charged ob- Whoever types the last letter wins. jects, including your fingers, could ✱ Press ? to end a round and reveal erase information entered in a car- the word. Press ENTER to view the tridge or built-in book. thesaurus entry of the word
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Limited Warranty (U.S. only) Resetting BOOKMAN FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN spond, or if its screen performs errati- will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic cally, first press and then pres
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Specifications Your Notes Model: ATH-440 • batteries: 2 CR2032, 3-volt lithium • size: 12 x 1.4 x 8.3 cm • weight: 4 oz © 1987-1995 Franklin Electronic Pub- lisher, Inc., Mount Holly, NJ 08060 USA. Classmates, Confusables, and Word Train are trademarks of Franklin. All rights reserved. BOOKMAN is a trademark of Sherwin M. Borsuk. Used under license. FCC Notice: Complies with the lim- its for a Class B computing device pur- suant to Subpart B of part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the f
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Index ?* key CONF key 8 Screen contrast 6 using during games 10 Confusables Shutoff time 6 using to find spellings 8 defined 8 SKILL key 10 Anagrams game 10 finding 8, 9 Special usages 7 Arrows Cursor, moving 7 Specifications 13 keys 6 Direction keys 3 Spellings on screen 6 DN key 3 correcting 8 Asterisks 8 Erasing typed letters 7 finding 8 Auto-resume feature 4 FCC Notice 13 STAR key 7, 9 Batteries 4 Font size 6 combinations 3 BOOKMAN Function keys 3 with CARD 9 reset
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™ Electronic Publishers ADVANCED THESAURUS Electronic Publishers User’s Guide ATH-440
