Franklin BOOKMAN BQF-440 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
B OO K MAN
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French Professor™/
Professeur d’Anglais
USER’S GUIDE
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Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-
tronic library with a built-in book and a slot
in the back for more books. With this
French Professor , you can now translate
anddefinemorethan200,000words,cor-
rect misspellings of both French and En-
glishwords,viewnoun,adjective,andverb
inflections, and save words to a Personal
wordlistforamoreenjoyablewaytolearn.
Tolearnhowtouseotherbooks,readtheir
User’s Guides.
Contents
Installing Batteries & Cards ........................................... 4
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 5
Using the Color Keys..................................................... 5
Changing the Language ................................................. 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 7
Translating English Words ............................................. 7
Translating French Words .............................................. 8
Learning Inflections....................................................... 9
Finding a Letter ............................................................. 10
Finding a Prefix ............................................................. 10
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 11
Using your Personal List................................................ 11
Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 13
Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14
Playing the Games......................................................... 14

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➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
card described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions, which are labelled on their
cards and listed in their User’s Guides.
For more information, read “Using the
Color Keys.”
Function Keys
EFFAC
Clears to the ready screen.
MENU
ShowsAdditionalFunctionsmenu.
CONJ
(red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) SwitchesbetweenEnglish
and French entry languages.
JEUX
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LISTE
(blue)ShowsPersonallistmenu.
CARTE
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
ARR
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
MAJ
Shifts
? ✽
to type an asterisk.
ENTRER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
AIDE
Shows help messages.
ESPACE
Types a space or pages down.
? ✽
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shifted, types an
✽ to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
Direction Keys
Moves in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARTE
Sends a word between
books.
✩
+ BAS Shows the next word or
inflection group.
✩
+ HT Shows the previous word
or inflection group.
*Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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➤ Removing Cards
Warning: When you remove a card
to install another, information that you
entered into the removed card will be
erased.
BOOKMANmodel440usestwolithium
CR-2032 batteries. Here is how to in-
stall or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
powerorareremovedfromBOOKMAN,
information that you entered in its built-
in book, and in an installed card, will be
erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries following
the diagram in the case.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Warning: Never install or remove a
card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do,
information that you entered in its built-
in book, and in an installed card, will be
erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the card
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the card down until it
snaps into place.
Installing CardsInstalling Batteries
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at any
screen. When you turn BOOKMAN
on again, the screen that you last
viewed appears.