Franklin BOOKMAN BQL-2066 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B OO K MAN
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GUIDA ALL’USO/USER’S GUIDE
BQL-2066
Dizionario Inglese-
Italiano Compatto

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Contents
Introduction .................................................................. 23
Installing Book Cards .................................................... 23
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 24
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 24
Setting the Message Language ...................................... 25
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 25
Changing the Settings ................................................... 26
Changing the Entry Language ........................................ 26
Finding Dictionary Entries ............................................. 27
Highlighting a Word ....................................................... 28
Finding English Inflections ............................................. 29
Finding a Letter in a Word ............................................. 30
Finding a Series of Letters ............................................. 30
Correcting Misspellings ................................................. 31
Using Your Personal List ............................................... 31
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 33
Playing the Games ......................................................... 33
Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 35
Book Card Care ............................................................ 36
Resetting Your BOOKMAN ............................................ 38
Copyrights and Patents ................................................. 38
Key Appendix ................................................................ 39

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Color Keys
CO NIU
(red) Displays inflections of a word.
LING
(green) Switches between English
and Italian entry languages.
GIOCHI
(yellow) Displays the games list.
LISTA
(blue) Displays the personal
word list menu.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals and
punctuation marks.
CARD
Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR
Erases all entries and returns to
the entry screen.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU
Displays the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
? ✽
Types a ? to stand for an unknown
letter in a word, displays a full
menu item, or displays the
headword in a dictionary entry.
Key Guide
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
or Accents a typed letter.
or Pages up or down.
Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+ Shows the next or previous
or word or inflection group.
✩
+
Q
-
P
Types letters.
✩
+ Types a hyphen.
CAP
+ Goes to the top or bottom of
or the text or menus.
CAP
+
? ✽
Types an ✽to stand for a
series of unknown letters.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions, which are labelled on their
book cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”
* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

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Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while BOOKMAN is on. If you
do, information that you entered in its
built-in book, as well as in an installed
book card, may be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book card
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the book card down until
it snaps into place.
➤ Removing Book Cards
Warning: When you remove a book
card to install another, information that
you entered into the removed book
card may be erased.
Introduction
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN at
any screen. When you turn your
BOOKMAN on again, the screen that
you last viewed appears.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you
can press to move around the screen.
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable
electronic reference with a built-in book
and a slot in the back for more books.
With this
Dizionario Inglese-Italiano
Compatto
, you can now translate and
define more than 34,000 words, correct
misspellings of both Italian and English
words, view English inflections, and save
words to a personal word list for a more
enjoyable way to learn. To learn how to
use this dictionary, read this User’s Guide.
Use your BOOKMAN to read this book
card. Read “Installing Book Cards” to
learn hot to get started.

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The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
the top row of your BOOKMAN change
functions according to which book is
selected.
If you have selected the built-in book, the
colour keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have
selected a book card, the color keys
function as labeled on that card.
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Using the Color Keys
Remember, when you have selected a
book card, the color keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.
Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you can then select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Selecting a Book
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This does not
mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
Note: The examples in the English half
of this manual use English as the
message language.

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When you turn on this product for the first
time, you must choose the message
language.
The message language is the
language of the prompts, screen instruc-
tions, menu items, and help messages.
• To select English as the
message language, press
B
.
• To select Italian as the message
language, press
A
.
➤ Changing the Message Language
Once you have set the message
language, you may wish to change it.
Here is how to change the message
language from Italian to English. First
press
MENU
to go to the main menus,
and use the arrow keys to highlight the
Setup menu. Then highlight
Lingua del
Messagio
and press
ENTER
to select it.
To change the message language from
Italian to English, select
Message
Language
from the Setup menu.
Setting the Message
Language
Before you start using your BOOKMAN,
you can view a brief demonstration of
what it can do.
When no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, the demonstration will
automatically appear after you turn the
unit on. To stop the demonstration, press
CLEAR
. To disable it, press
MENU
and
then use the arrow keys to highlight the
Setup menu. Highlight
Disable Demo
from the Setup menu and press
ENTER
to
select it. To re-enable it, select
Enable
Demo
from the Setup menu.
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, press
MENU
. Then use the
arrow keys to highlight
View Demo from
the Setup menu and then press
ENTER
to
view the demo.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP .
Use the Direction keys to read it. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To read about what the keys do, select
Tutorial from the Setup menu.

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The entry language is the language in which
you type search words. In dictionary
entries, the entry language always appears
at the beginning of the entry. You can
change the entry language at the entry
screen or the main menus.
1. Press
CLEAR
to go to the entry
screen, if needed.
2. Press
LING
(green) to change the
entry language from Italian to
English.
3. Press
MENU
to go to the main
menus.
4. Press
LING
(green) to change
the entry language from
English to Italian.
Changing the Settings Changing the Entry
Language
You can adjust the type size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast of this book.
The shutoff time is how long your
BOOKMAN remains on if you forget to
turn it off. The screen contrast is how
light or dark the screen display appears.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3.
Press to highlight Set Type
Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press or to change the
setting.
To leave the settings unchanged,
press
BACK
.
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.

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➤ Understanding Dictionary Entries
The bold words at the top of the
dictionary entry is the headword with
its tense and gender in parentheses,
which is followed by any available
translation(s) of the headword. Other
definitions, variants of the word, and
similar words are shown along with
their translations, if any are available.
FindingDictionaryEntries
With this dictionary, you can translate
English words to Italian and Italian words to
English simply by typing the word.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
LING
(green) to change
the entry language to English,
if needed.
3. Type a word. For example, type
woman.
To erase a letter press
BACK
.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Use the Direction keys to read
the dictionary entry, if needed.
6. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Dictionary Entries
➤ Typing Accents and Diacritical
Marks
You do not need to type accent and
diacritical marks when you are entering
words at the entry screen. They will be
added automatically. If you type a word
which has two forms (for example,
resume , résumé ) that are accented
differently, you must highlight the form
that you want and press
ENTER
.
If you want to type accent and diacritical
marks, you must use the correct marks
or the word will be treated as a
misspelling. To type an accent or
diacritical mark, type the desired letter
(for example,
e ) and press or until
the desired mark appears.
➤ Browsing Dictionary Entries
Here is how to move around in the
dictionary entries.
To... Press...
Go to the next or previous
✩
+
dictionary entry or
Go to the top or bottom
⇑
+
of the dictionary entry or
Page up or down or

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➤ Another Way to Find Words
Instead of entering words at the entry
screen, you can also search the
dictionary list. First press
MENU
. Then
start typing a word at the dictionary
list. To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
When the word you want translated is
highlighted, press
ENTER
to view its
dictionary entry. You can also use the
Direction keys to help you highlight
words on the dictionary list.
➤ Changing the Entry Language
from the Main Menus
You can also change the entry
language from the main menus.
Simply highlight the Ling menu and
select either
Ital➝Engl to change the
entry language to Italian or select
Engl ➝Ital to change the entry
language to English. Or press
LING
(green) to change the current entry
language.
Finding Dictionary Entries Highlighting a Word
Another way to search for words is by
highlighting them in dictionary entries or in
any word lists. Then you can find their
definitions, inflections, or add them to your
personal words list. Note: If you look up a
word in a language other than your current
entry language, the entry language is
temporarily changed to the other language.
When you press
CLEAR
or
MENU
, your
selected entry language is restored.
1. At any text, press
ENTER
to start
the highlight.
You can turn the highlight off by
pressing
BACK
.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight
at word.
3. Do one of the following.
To... Press...
define the word
ENTER
view English inflections
CO NIU
add words to the personal list
LISTA