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User’s Guide
DBD-440
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN PRODUCT. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RE- CEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK means the software product and documen- tation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! words, view their inflections with ex- BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable amples, correct misspellings, save electronic reference with a built-in book words to your User list, and play fun, and a slot in the back for more books. educational word games that will help With this German/English Dictionary you learn German. To learn how to use you can translate more than 200,000 other books, read their User’s Guides. Installing Batteries ........................
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Key Guide Function Keys Other Keys CLEAR Clears to an entry screen. ZURÜCK Backs up, erases letters, or stops a highlight. MENÜ Shows the main menus. Shifts keys to type capitals. FLEKT (red) Shows inflections. EINGABE Enters a search, selects a E/D (green) Switches languages. menu item, or starts a highlight. SPIEL (yellow) Shows the games menu. HILFE Shows help messages. Types a space or pages down. LISTE (blue) Shows the User list menu. ✽ Types a ? to stand for an ? KARTE Exits the selected b
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Installing Batteries Installing Book Cards BOOKMAN model 440 uses two Warning: Never install or remove a CR2032 lithium batteries. Here is how book card when BOOKMAN is on. If to install or replace them. you do, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed Warning: When the batteries lose book card, will be erased. power or are removed from BOOK- MAN, information that you entered in 1. Turn BOOKMAN off. its built-in book, and in an installed 2. Turn BOOKMAN over. book
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Selecting Books Using the Color Keys Once you have installed a book card The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on in your BOOKMAN, you must select your BOOKMAN change functions ac- which book you want to use. cording to which book is selected. 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. When the built-in book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on the KARTE 2. Press . BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book card book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that book card. These are sample books. 3. Pre
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Changing Settings Viewing a Demonstration You can adjust the font size, shutoff Before you start using this book, you time, and screen contrast. The font can view a demonstration of what it size changes the number of lines of can do. text that appear on screen. The shut- The demonstration automatically ap- off time is how long BOOKMAN stays pears the first time that you select it. If on if you forget to turn it off. you want to stop the demonstration, MEN Ü CLEAR press . To disable it, press , 1
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Changing the Language Beginner Tips Message Language ➤ A Faster Way to Change The message language is the language Languages of prompts, help and other messages. At the main menus press E/D . NOTE: For examples in the English half Pressing E/D changes the of this manual, the message language message language at the menus is English. and help, or changes the entry MEN Ü language at the entry screen. 1. If not at menus, press . 2. Highlight Message Language ➤ Understanding Definitions from
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Finding Words Finding Phrases The simplest way to translate or de- This product also contains many fine a word is to enter it at an entry phrases. You can find phrases simply screen. You do not need to type ac- by entering a single word from a cents or capital letters. phrase. 1. At the German entry screen, 1. Select German Phrases from type a German word (e.g., the Topics menu. geld). 2. Type a word in a German phrase (e.g., noch). To erase a letter, press ZURÜCK. EINGABE 2. Press . 3. Press EI
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Finding Inflections Advanced Tips This dictionary includes extensive in- ➤ Viewing Complete Menu flections of nouns, verbs, modifiers, Items and other words. The words and phrases followed by ellipses are too long to fit onto one 1. At the German entry screen, type a German word line. At any highlighted menu item, ✻ (e.g., schwimmen). press ? to view the whole item. FLEKT 2. Press . ➤ Umlauting & Capitalizing German Letters You don’t need to type umlauts at entry screens. However, if you Thes
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Highlighting Words Finding Spellings To learn more about a word appearing If you’re not sure how to spell a word, in a definition, you can highlight the type a question mark in place of each word and find its definition(s) and in- unknown letter or an asterisk in place flections. of a series of unknown letters. 1. At the German entry screen, 1. At the German entry screen type a German word (e.g., type a word with ?’s and a ✽ frei). (e.g., sch?ss✽ ). EINGABE To type an ✽ , hold and press 2. Pres
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Using the User List Using the User List Adding Words Viewing Your List For study or fun, you can add words LISTE 1. Press . to the personal word lists. Your words 2. Press EINGABE to view the list. are saved as long as the batteries have 3. Highlight a word on the list. power or you reset your BOOKMAN. 4. Press EINGABE to view its NOTE: Only words from the dictionar- FLEKT definition(s) or to view ies in this product can be added to the its inflections. personal word lists. 1. At a
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Playing the Games Playing the Games To set the difficulty of the games, first Hangman SPIEL press , and then select Game Hangman challenges you to guess a mys- Settings from the games menu. Next tery word, indicated by ?’s, one letter at a select a word list, skill level, inflections time. As you type letters, your correct guesses appear in place of the question or no inflections, and a language. marks and your wrong guesses appear below (#). You must guess the word be- fore you run out of tri
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Playing the Games Playing the Games Flashcards NOTE: These two games test your knowledge of German words only. Flashcards flashes words for you to define or study. To view the definitions of the word, ™ Gender Tutor press EINGABE . Then press ZURÜCK to return Gender Tutor asks you to guess the to Flashcards and try another word. gender of German nouns. Type m for ™ masculine, f for feminine, or n for neu- Word Train ter. But hurry! There is a time limit set by All aboard the Word Train spellin
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Sending Words Between Books Resetting BOOKMAN This BOOKMAN dictionary can send If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- words to and receive words from cer- spond, or if its screen performs errati- CLEAR tain other BOOKMAN books. cally, first press and then press AN/AUS twice. If nothing happens, follow To send a word, you must first install a the steps below to reset it. book card in your BOOKMAN, and that book card must be able to send Warning: Pressing the reset button or receive words. To learn
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LBS. Limited Warranty (US only) Book Card Care FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free • Do not touch the metal from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN contacts on the book cards. will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Caution: Touching these electrical Publishers, Inc., 122
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Notes Copyrights & Patents Model: DBD-440 • batteries: 2 CR2032, 3-volt lithium • size: 12 x 1.4 x 8.3 cm • weight: 3.5 oz. (without batteries) © 1997 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 USA. All rights reserved. © 1988 William Collins Sons & Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. BOOKMAN is a trademark of Sherwin M. Borsuk. Used under license. FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart B of part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subj
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