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BOOKMAN
ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
®
MovieViews
Electronic Publishers USER’S GUIDE
FLX-2074
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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. BOOKMAN PRODUCT means the soft- ware product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc
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Contents Key Guide ....................................................................... 1 Introduction .................................................................... 3 Installing a Book Card ..................................................... 3 Selecting a Book ............................................................. 4 Using the Color Keys....................................................... 4 Viewing the Demonstration ............................................. 5 Finding Mov
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Key Guide Color Keys Direction Keys CAST (red) Shows the Cast Move in indicated direction. Member’s menu. DN Pages up or down. UP (green) Prompts you to search SEARCH In a movie review goes CAP to the beginning or end. for words in movie titles. Star Key Combinations* GAMES (yellow) Shows the Games DN I + Moves down within a movie menu. review. THEME (blue) Shows
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Introduction Installing a Book Card Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! 1. Turn your BOOKMAN off. The BOOKMAN is an electronic unit 2. Turn your BOOKMAN over. with a built-in book inside. A slot in the 3. Align the tabs on the book card back lets you snap in book cards from with the notches in the slot. Franklin’s electronic library. The prod- uct is portable; it can go with you anywhere. ™ The Movie Views book card provides a guide to 9,500 movies. It is de- signed to help you search quickly
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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys Once this book card has been installed in The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on the BOOKMAN you can select which your BOOKMAN change their functions book to use. according to which book you are using. When you are using the built-in book, 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. the color keys function as labelled on the CARD 2. Press . BOOKMAN keyboard. When you are using a book card, the color keys func- tion as labelled on that book card. These are sample books. 3.
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Viewing the Demonstration Finding Movies by Title Before you use this book, you may want The fastest way to find movies is to do a to see a brief demonstration. Title Word Search. First be certain that this book card is in- CLEAR 1. Press . stalled in your BOOKMAN and that you 2. Press SEARCH (green) to go to have selected it. To learn how, read “In- the Title Word Search screen. stalling a Book Card” and “Selecting a 3. Type one or more words from Book.” Then follow these steps. a movie title.
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Finding Movies by Title Using the Movies Menu You can also search for movie titles on CAP and to go to the Movies menu. beginning or end, or use spacebar. (see Key Guide) CLEAR 1. Press . DN 7. Hold I and press or key go to the next or previ- ous title found by your search. 2. Type a movie title (e.g., Big) until it is highlighted. 8. To return to the list of your MENU matches, press . ENTER 3. Press . BACK 9. Press repeatedly to return to the Title Word CLEAR Search screen. Or press to cle
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Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Cast The Cast Members menu lets you find movies by the stars that played in them. CAST 1. Press (red). ENTER 6. Press to select a movie. Or select Cast Members from the 7. To return to the Cast Mem- Search menu. CAST bers menu, press . 2. Begin typing a cast member’s CLEAR 8. Press when done. name (e.g., Marvin, Lee). Selecting More than One Cast Member Cast members’ names should be MovieViews can search for movies typed as they appear, with the last
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Finding Movies by Director Finding Movies by Theme You can also search for movies that You can search through 550 movie have a specific director. Also, by se- themes, and some movies have more lecting more than one director, than 10 themes. A theme is the central MovieViews searches for films di- idea of the film (e.g., Drama, Abduc- rected by all of the selected directors. tion (1975). You can search for films that share more than one theme. 1. Select Directors from the THEME Search menu. 1. Pr
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Searching by a Finding Movies by Year Range of Years You can search for movies by a year or You can also find a movie that was re- a range of years. In the following ex- leased over a range of years. In the ample, we can find movies that were following example we will search for mov- released in 1983. ies that were released between 1981 and 1987. 1. Select Year from the Search 1. From the Search menu, ENTER menu, and then press . select Year. 2. Use the arrow keys to high- light 1987. 3.
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ss Searching Searchng Other Categories Other Categories You can also search for movies by Awards Academy Awards, MPAA Rating, and The Awards category lists 29 major Critic Rating. awards to search for movies that have won one or more major Academy 1. Select the Search menu. Awards. You can also search the lists for films that received awards in more than one category (e.g., movies that won for Best Leading Actress and Best Direc- 2. Select a category (e.g., tor). All of the Award titles begin
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Searching by Searching by Multiple Categories Multiple Categories MENU MovieViews lets you search by multiple 8. Press or to view the categories in a single search. We will matches. look for PG-13 movies that feature Kevin Costner and were released in 1994. CLEAR 1. Press . CLEAR CAST 9. Press when done. 2. Press (red). 3. Select Costner, Kevin. MENU 4. Press and then choose the Search menu to select the MPAA Rating. 5. Select PG-13. BACK 6. Press twice. If No Matches Are Found 7. Sele
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Using Bookmarks Using Bookmarks s You can place bookmarks in movie re- Finding a Bookmark views for personalized quick reference MENU 1. Press . (for example, to quickly find your favor- 2. Highlight Bookmark List from ite movies or movies you have seen the Setup menu. recently or want to rent). ENTER 3. Press . s Adding a Bookmark 1. Within any movie review, hold I and press L. 4. Use or to highlight a bookmark. ENTER 5. Press to go to its movie review. ENTER 2. Press to select Add CLEAR
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Playing the Games Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess a MovieViews has two games that will mystery cast member, indicated by ?’s, test your movie knowledge, Hangman one letter at a time. As you type letters, and Movie Quiz. your correct guesses appear in place of GAMES 1. Press (yellow). the question marks, and your wrong 2. Press or to highlight guesses appear below. Hangman or Movie Quiz. GAMES 1. Press . ENTER 3. Press to start playing. 2. Select Hangman. BACK 4. Press at any time du
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Movie Quiz Movie Quiz The object of playing the game is to 6. Press to show current guess a movie from 10 hints. The score. sooner you determine the answer, the 7. To see the movie’s review, more points you gain. Note: Movies that ENTER press . begin with articles (a, an, the) will appear BACK 8. Press to start a new only once in the movie list, and they will round. begin with the article (e.g., The Abyss). CLEAR 9. Press when done. 1. Select Movie Quiz from the Games list. ENTER 2. Press . 3
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Resetting BOOKMAN Changing the Settings If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- The type size, screen contrast, and spond, or if its screen performs time of shutoff can be adjusted to suit CLEAR erratically, first press and then your needs using the Setup menu. ON/OFF press twice. If nothing happens, Set Type changes the number of lines follow the steps below to reset it. of text that appear on the screen. Set Warning: Pressing the reset button Contrast adjusts the screen to lighter with more tha
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LBS. Book Card Care Copyrights and Patents • Do not touch the metal con- Model: FLX-2074 MovieViews tacts on the book cards. • batteries: 2 CR2032, 3 volt lithium • size: 12 x 8.3 x 1.4 cm Caution: Touching these electrical • weight: 0.4 oz. contacts with statically charged ob- jects, including your fingers, could © 1997 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., erase information entered in a book Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 USA. All rights reserved. card or built-in book. © 1992 Electronic Movie Gu
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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
