Franklin BOOKMAN CDR-440 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
CDR-440
®
The PDR
Family Guide to
Prescription Drugs
®

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOK-
MAN®! Using your new
PDR® Family
Guide to Prescription Drugs®
book
card, you can find important informa-
tion about more than 850 brand
name and generic drugs.
You can also read 23 informative
health overviews, plus useful medical
safety tips. To learn how to use this
electronic book, simply follow the
steps in this User’s Guide.
Key Guide ...................................................................... 2
Installing the Batteries .................................................. 3
Installing a Book Card ................................................... 4
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 4
Using the Color Keys..................................................... 5
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 5
Changing the Settings ................................................... 6
Looking up a Drug ......................................................... 6
Reading a Drug Profile .................................................. 7
Reading Health Overviews ............................................ 8
Reading Medical Safety Tips ......................................... 9
Using the Index ............................................................. 10
Searching for Words ..................................................... 11
Highlighting Search Words............................................ 12
Sending Words Between Books .................................... 13
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ......................................... 15
Index.............................................................................. 15

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Key Guide
Color Keys
DRUG
(red) Displays the Drugs
menu.
HEALTH
(green) Displays the Health
Overviews menu.
TIPS
(yellow) Displays the Medi-
cal Safety Tips menu.
SEARCH
(blue) Displays and clears
the word search screen.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up to the previous screen.
CAP
Shifts keys to type capitals and
punctuation.
CARD Exits the selected book.
CLEAR Clears a word search and
highlights the Contents menu.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, starts a
word search, or highlights a
word in the text.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU Toggles between the main
menus and text.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
?*
At a menu, displays the full title
of an item. At text, displays the
Outline Location. Shifted, types
an asterisk to stand for a series
of letters in a word.
Direction Keys
Scroll line by line.
DN
UP
Scroll screen by screen.
SPACE
Page down.
Key Combinations1
✩
+
DN
or
UP
At text, go the next or
previous section.
CAP
+ or At a menu, go to the
top or bottom item. At text, go the next
or previous section.
✩
+
BACK
From a submenu, go back to
the main menus.
✩
+ CARD Send a highlighted word be-
tween books.
✩
+
ENTER
From a highlighted drug
name on the Drugs menu, go di-
rectly to its drug profile.
1Hold
✩
while pressing the other key

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Key Guide (cont’d.)
Quick Keys2
D
Go to the Dosage section.
E
Go to the Side Effects section.
F
Go to the Most Important Fact section.
G
Go to the General section.
I
Go to the Food and Drug Interac-
tions
section.
N
Go to the Do Not Take If section.
O
Go to the Overdosage section.
P
Go to the Prescribed For section.
S
Go to the Use in Pregnancy or
Breastfeeding
section.
T
Go to the How to Take section.
W
Go to the Special Warnings section.
Installing the Batteries
Your BOOKMAN 440 model re-
quires two CR2032, 3-volt batteries.
Here is how to install or replace
them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from your
BOOKMAN, information that you en-
tered in its built-in book and in an in-
stalled book card will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries with
their plus signs facing you.
4. Replace the battery cover.
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This doesn’t
mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
2The Quick keys perform these functions only
when you’re reading a drug profile.

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Selecting a Book
If you’ve installed a book card in your
BOOKMAN, you can select which
book you want to use. Follow these
steps.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
3. Press or to highlight a
book symbol.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you’ve entered in its built-in book, as
well as in any other installed book
cards, will be erased
.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs of the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Installing a Book Card
➤ Removing a Book Card
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another, infor-
mation that you entered in the
removed book card will be erased.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN
at any time. When you turn on
your BOOKMAN again, the
screen that you last viewed ap-
pears.

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Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can see an appropriate help
message at virtually any screen by
pressing
HELP
. Press or
DN
to
read the message. Press
BACK
to
exit it.
To read a tutorial about how to
use this book, select Tutorial from
the Setup menu.
Using the Color Keys
T he red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of the BOOKMAN
keyboard change their functions ac-
cording to which book you’re currently
using.
If you’re using the built-in book, the
color keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’re using
an installed book card, the color keys
function as labeled on that card.
Remember, when you’re using a
book card, the color keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.
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You may want to see a brief demon-
stration of how to use this book. Sim-
ply install the book card and then
follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
CLEAR
.

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Looking up a Drug
If you know the brand or generic
name of a drug, here’s how to find its
drug profile.
1. Press
DRUG
(the red key).
Or highlight Drugs on the Con-
tents menu and then press
ENTER
.
2. Type a brand or generic drug
name. For example, type Tylenol.
To undo a letter, press
BACK
.
3. When the drug is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a section and then
press
ENTER
.
This is the drug profile for Tylenol .
Changing the Settings
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust
the type size, shutoff time, and screen
contrast.
The type size sets how large the char-
acters appear on screen. The shutoff
time sets how long your BOOKMAN
stays on if you forget to turn it off. The
screen contrast sets how light or dark
the screen appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast on
the Setup menu.
A slanted arrow indicates a submenu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press or to highlight a
new setting.
To leave the setting unchanged,
press
BACK
.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.

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➤ Viewing Complete Menu Items
Some topic and section titles on the
Health Overviews and Med. Safety
Tips
menus, as well as some Index
entries, are too long to fit on the
menus. To see a complete menu
item title, highlight the item and then
press
?*
.
6. Use or
DN
to scroll down.
7. Hold
✩
and press
DN
or
UP
to
go to the next or previous
section.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Looking up a Drug Reading a Drug Profile
You can also read medical safety tips
about Poison Control Centers, safe
medication use, alcohol- or sugar-
free drugs, drugs that cause a reac-
tion to sunlight, and recommended
vaccinations.
1. Press
TIPS
(the yellow key).
Or highlight Med. Safety Tips on the
Contents menu and then press
ENTER
.
2. Highlight a topic (for ex-
ample, Poison Control
Centers) and then press
ENTER
.
To highlight a menu item, press
or
DN
, or type its first few letters.
3. Highlight a subtopic (for ex-
ample, Middle Atlantic) and
then press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight an item (for ex-
ample, National Capital Poison
Center) and then press
ENTER
.

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Reading a Drug Profile
5. Use these Quick keys to go a
section of the profile:
To go to... Press...
General
G
Prescribed For
P
Most Important Fact
F
How to Take
T
Side Effects
E
Do Not Take If
N
Special Warnings
W
Food and Drug Interactions
I
Use in Pregnancy
or Breastfeeding
S
Dosage
D
Overdosage
O
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows at the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to scroll through the
menus or text.
Reading Health Overviews
You can read health overviews cov-
ering topics such as “Coping with
Arthritis” and “Handling Familiar
Childhood Infections.”
1. Press
HEALTH
(the green key).
Or highlight Health Overviews on
the Contents menu and then
press
ENTER
.
2. Highlight a topic (for ex-
ample, Coping with
Arthritis).
To highlight a topic, press or
DN
, or type its first few letters.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Highlight a section (for ex-
ample, What is Arthritis?).
5. Press
ENTER
to go to the
heath overview.