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BOOKMAN
EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
™
MovieViews
Electronic Publishers
USER’S GUIDE
FLX-440
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! that you cannot with a printed book. With BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec- this electronic movie guide you can find over tronic reference with a built-in book and a 5,000 movie reviews and search for mov- slot in the back for more books. ies that won Academy Awards, were re- ™ leased in a specific year, or feature a spe- With MovieViews , you now own a power- cific cast member, and much more. ful movie guide that you can take anywhere. To learn how
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Key Guide Color Keys Direction Keys CAST (red) Shows the Cast list. Move in indicated direction. DIR (green) Shows the Director list. DN Pages up or down. UP ] GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list. Star Key Combinations DN I + From within a movie review, THEME (blue) Shows the Theme list. goes to the next review Other Keys alphabetically. BACK Backs up, erases letters, or I + From within a movie review, UP stops a highlight. goes to the previous review alphabetically. CARD Exits the book you are
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Installing Batteries Installing a Book Card The BOOKMAN 440 model uses two Warning: Never install or remove a CR-2032 lithium batteries. Here is how book card while your BOOKMAN is to install or replace them. turned on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book, as well Warning: When the batteries lose as in any other installed book cards, power or are removed from your will be erased. BOOKMAN, information that you have entered in its built-in book as well as in 1. Turn your B
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Selecting a Book Using the Color Keys Once you have installed a book card in your The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on BOOKMAN, you can select which book the top row of your BOOKMAN change you want to use. Follow these steps. their functions according to which book you have selected. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. If you have selected the built-in book, the CARD 2. Press . color keys function as labeled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have se- lected a book card, the color keys func- tion as label
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Viewing the Demonstration Changing Settings From the Other menu, you can adjust the Before you start using your BOOKMAN, type size, the shutoff time and the screen you can view a brief demonstration of contrast. Set Type Size changes the what it can do. number of lines of text that appear on the When no book card is installed in your screen. Set Shutoff changes how long BOOKMAN, a demonstration automati- your BOOKMAN stays turned on if you cally appears once you turn it on. To stop forget to tur
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Finding a Movie Review Finding a Movie Review ENTER MovieViews contains movie reviews 3. Press when it is high- for over 5,000 movies between 1914 lighted. and 1994. Here is how to find a movie by name. NOTE: All of the lists in MovieViews are alphabetized letter-by- letter, regardless of punctuation or 4. Press to read the movie spacing. For example, the movie Ace review. Ventura: Pet Detective is listed before 5. To go to the next review A Change of Seasons. I alphabetically hold and CLEAR
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Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Cast With MovieViews you can search for MENU 4. Press or to view the movies that feature one or more specific films featuring that cast cast members. In this example, we will member. search for movies that feature Lee Marvin. If you check more than one cast mem- ber, MovieViews will search for movies 5. Select a movie. featuring all of the cast members. You can search this list the same CAST way that you search the main movie 1. Press . list. Or select
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Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Director Another Way to Find Cast You can also search for movies that were Members directed by a specific director. NOTE: By selecting more than one director, When reading a movie review, you can MovieViews searches for films directed find other movies that include the by all of the selected directors. ENTER same cast member. Press and then press to highlight the cast DIR 1. Press . member you want. Or select Director(s) from the Locate menu. 2. Begi
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Finding Movies by Theme Using the Locate Menu You can look for specific movies by nar- There are over 550 searchable themes rowing your searches by categories. In in MovieViews, and most of the movies the following example we will search for have 10 themes or more. Themes are movies that won an Academy Award for the subject matter of the films (e.g., Best Adapted Screenplay. Drama, 19th Century, Jack the Ripper, etc.). You can also look for films that 1. Highlight the Locate menu . share one o
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Using the Locate Menu Locating Movies by Year s Awards You can search for movies by entering a year or a year range. In the following You can find movies that have won one example, we will find movies that were or more major Academy Awards. The released in 1973. Awards category lists those 29 major awards for which you can search. You 1. Select Year from the Locate can also look for films that received menu. awards in more than one category (e.g., movies that won awards for Best Lead- ing Actre
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Putting It All Together Selecting a Range of Years You can also find movies that were re- With MovieViews you may fine-tune your leased over a range of years. In the follow- searches even further by selecting mul- ing example we will search for movies that tiple search items in a single search. The were released between 1981 and 1987. combinations of search items are virtu- ally endless. In this example, we will look 1. Select Year from the Locate for PG-13 movies that feature Kevin menu. Costne
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Putting It All Together Placing Notes You can place a personalized note in a 8. Select 1994 . movie review for quick reference. Notes can be used to mark your favorite movies, movies that you want to rent, or recently seen movies. Your notes are highlighted MENU 9. Press or to view the in the movie review with a . matches. 1. Press N within any movie review. ENTER 2. Press to select Add Note. CLEAR 10. Press when done. ENTER 3. Press . The note title will be the movie title and the year.
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Viewing and Removing Notes Playing the Games s Viewing a Note MovieViews has two games that will test your movie knowledge, Hangman and MENU 1. Press . Movie Quiz. 2. Highlight Note List from the Other menu. GAMES 1. Press . ENTER 3. Press . 2. Press or to highlight Hangman or Movie Quiz. ENTER 3. Press to start playing. BACK 4. Press at any time during Your note list appears. the games to return to the Games list. 4. Press to highlight a note, if CLEAR needed. 5. Press when done, at any t
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Playing Movie Quiz Playing Hangman In Movie Quiz, your goal is to guess a MovieViews Hangman challenges you to movie from a series of 10 clues. The guess a mystery cast member, indicated sooner you figure out the movie, the by ?’s, one letter at a time. As you type more points you gain. Note: While play- letters, your correct guesses appear in ing Movie Quiz, movies that begin with place of the question marks, and your articles (a, an, the) will appear only once wrong guesses appear below. in th
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Playing Movie Quiz Your Notes 7. Highlight your guess. You should treat this list like the main movie list. ENTER 8. Press to select the movie. When you select a movie, or run out of guesses, Movie Quiz displays your current score and reveal the movie’s title and year. 9. To view the movie’s review, ENTER press . SPACE 10. Press to start a new round. CLEAR 11. Press when done. Saving and Clearing Scores Your scores for both Hangman and Movie Quiz will be saved, even if CLEAR you press or
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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 & Patents If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- Model: FLX-440 MovieViews spond, or if its screen performs errati- • batteries: 2 CR2032, 3 volt lithium CLEAR • size: 12 x 8.3 x 1.4 cm cally, first press and then press ON/OFF • weight: 4.0 oz. twice. If nothing happens, follow the steps below to reset it. © 1987-1996 Franklin Electronic Publish- ers, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 USA. Warning: Pressing the reset button with All rights reserved. more than very lig
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Index Index About screen illustrations 4 Multiple search items 11 Academy Awards 10 Notes Another way to search 6 placing 12 Arrow keys 5 removing 13 Awards, locating movies by 10 viewing 13 Book cards, installing and Playing Games 13 removing 3 Playing Hangman 14 Cast members, finding movies by 7 Playing movie quiz 14 Categories, locating movies by 9 Removing a note 13 Changing settings 5 Removing book cards 3 Clearing scores 15 Scores, saving & clearing 15 Contrast, setting
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FPB-28040-00 P/N 7201284 Rev A 19 19
