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BOOKMAN
EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
Dictionary
& Thesaurus
USER’S GUIDE
MWD-640
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN PRODUCT. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN PRODUCT 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 PRODUCT AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOK- MAN PRODUCT means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED U
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! tionary entries, 41,000 thesaurus en- BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable tries with 496,000 synonyms, correct electronic reference with a built-in book misspellings, save words to your User and a slot in the back for more books. list, and play three fun, educational With this BOOKMAN Dictionary & The- word games. To learn how to use other saurus you can find over 83,000 dic- book cards, read their User’s Guides. Installing Batteries and Installing a Book Ca
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Key Guide Function Keys Other Keys BACK CLEAR Backs up, erases letters, or Clears to Enter your word. stops a highlight. MENU Shows the main menus. CAP Shifts keys to type punctuation. THES (red) Shows a thesaurus entry. ENTER Enters a search, selects a ™ CONF menu item, or starts a highlight. (green) Shows Confusables . HELP Shows help messages. GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list. Q Types a question mark to stand ? LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu. for an unknown letter in a word. CARD Shi
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Installing Batteries Installing a Book Card BOOKMAN model 640 uses four AAA Warning: Never install or remove a batteries. Here is how to install or re- book card while your BOOKMAN is place them. turned on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book as Warning: When the batteries lose well as in any other installed book power or are removed from your cards, will be erased. BOOKMAN, information that you have entered in its built-in book as 1. Turn your BOOKMAN off. well as in an
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Selecting Books Using the Color Keys The red, green, yellow, and blue keys Once you have installed a book card on the top row of your BOOKMAN in your BOOKMAN, you can select change their functions according to which book you want to use. Follow which book you have selected. these steps. If you have selected the built-in book, the 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. color keys function as labeled on the 2. Press CARD. BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have selected a book card, the color keys function as labeled on that
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Changing Settings Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using your BOOK- You can adjust the font size, shutoff MAN, you can view a brief demonstra- time, and screen contrast. Font size tion of what it can do. changes the number of lines of text that appear on screen. The shutoff time When no book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, a demonstration automati- is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you cally appears once you turn it on. To stop forget to turn it off. the demonstration, press CLEAR. To d
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Finding Definitions Finding Words in Definitions It’s easy to look up a word in the dic- Search for a Word lets you find all of tionary. Simply type it at the Entry the definitions in which a specific word screen and press ENTER. Try this ex- appears. ample. 1. Press CLEAR. 1. Press CLEAR. 2. Press MENU. 2. Type a word (e.g., knowl- 3. Select Search for a word from edge). the CMDS menu. 4. Type a word (e.g., legal). 5. Press ENTER. 3. Press ENTER. 6. Hold I and press DN to view the next definiti
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Finding Synonyms Finding Synonyms When you see THES flash once in the Understanding Thesaurus upper right of the screen, that word Entries has a thesaurus entry. Thesaurus entries consist of 1. Press CLEAR. thesaurus meanings and a synonym list. A thesaurus meaning 2. Type a word (e.g., splendid). is a definition shared by a list of 3. Press THES. synonyms. Or hold I and press T. Two Ways to Back Up Pressing BACK takes you back to the previous screen you viewed. This is the first thesaur
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Finding a Letter Finding a Series of Letters If you are uncertain about a letter in a To find prefixes, suffixes, and other word, type a question mark in place of parts of words, type an asterisk in a each unknown letter. word. Asterisks stand for a series of letters. Note: If you type an asterisk 1. Type a word with ?’s. at the beginning of a word, it may take a while to find the matching words. 1. Type a word with an Q . 2. Press ENTER. To type an asterisk, hold CAP Q and press . ? 3. Highligh
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® Correcting Misspellings Finding Confusables If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It Confusables are homonyms and spell- will be corrected automatically. ing variants that are easy to confuse. If a word has Confusables, CONF will 1. Type a misspelled word. flash once in the upper right of the screen. 1. Type a word (e.g., rein). 2. Press CONF. To erase a letter, press BACK. 2. Press ENTER. Confusables come with identify- ing words. 3. Press to highlight a 3. Press ENTER and then high- correcti
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Highlighting Words Reviewing Words Another way to look up words is by The Path list lets you review the last highlighting them in dictionary defini- 15 words you looked up. Your Path tions, thesaurus entries, or word lists. list is automatically saved between Then you can find their definitions, the- sessions until the batteries lose saurus entries, Confusables, or add power. them to your User list. 1. Select Path list from the CMDS menu. 1. At any text, press ENTER to start the highlight. Or ho
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Using the User List Using the User List You can create a User list of up to 40 Adding Highlighted Words t words. You can even add words to your At any text, you can highlight a word User list that are not in this dictionary. and add it to your User list. Here’s how to add and to view a word. 1. At text, press ENTER to start 1. Press LIST to view the User the highlight. list menu. 2. Highlight a word. 3. Press LIST. 4. Select Add “your word”. If you haven’t added words to your User list, View
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Using the User List Sending Words You can delete one or all the words in This BOOKMAN dictionary can send words to and receive words from cer- your User list. Here’s how. tain other BOOKMAN books. Deleting One Word t To send a word, you must first install a 1. Press LIST. book card in your BOOKMAN, and 2. Select Delete word. that book card must be able to send 3. Highlight a word on the list. or receive words. To learn if a book 4. Press ENTER to delete it. card can send or receive words, re
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Changing Game Settings Playing the Games You can change the game settings at Now that you have the games set, let’s any time. Each setting applies to all the play. games. 1. Press GAMES. Word List lets you pick which words 2. Press or to highlight a you’ll play the games with. If you se- game. lect Type Them in, you’ll need to type 3. Press ENTER to start it. in words after you select a game. Word Length lets you pick how many letters will be in the words (3-13). Skill Level lets you select th
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Playing the Games Playing the Games Hangman Type an anagram and then press EN- TER. Use the arrows to view anagrams Hangman challenges you to guess a you’ve already entered. Hold CAP and mystery word, indicated by ?’s, one Q letter at a time. The number of guesses press ? to shuffle the letters in the you can make appears to right of the Q selected word. Press ? to end a Q #’s. For a hint hold CAP and press ? round and reveal the remaining ana- Q grams. Highlight a word, and then Or press ? to
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Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, NJ 08016-4907, within one year of purchase. Alternatively, FRANKLIN may, at its
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Resetting BOOKMAN Copyrights and Patents If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to Model MWD-640 respond, or if its screen performs • batteries: 4-AAA, 1.5 volt erratically, first press CLEAR and then • size: 14 x 2.5 x 10.3 cm press ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, • weight: 6 oz. (without batteries) follow the steps below to reset it. © 1987-1996 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Burlington, NJ Warning: Pressing the reset button with 08016-4907 USA. All rights reserved. more than very light press
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Index ? key 8, 14 path is empty 10 ] key 8, 14 type them in 13 Anagrams game 14 view list: empty 11 Arrow keys 5 Misspellings, correcting 9 Asterisk key 8, 14 Path list 10 BACK key 7 Reviewing words 10 Backing up 7 Searching for words 6 Changing Bookman's settings 5 Shutoff CONF message 9 changing 5 Confusables, finding 9 setting 5 Correcting misspellings 9 Spelling finding tips 8 Disable demo 5 STAR key DN key 2, 6, 7 combinations 2 Games with CARD 12 changing settings
