Franklin BOOKMAN DBE-2020 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
MANUAL DEL USUARIO
DBE-2020
™
Spanish Master/
Maestro Ingles
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Contents
Introduction ..................................................................... 4
Installing Book Cards ....................................................... 4
Selecting a Book .............................................................. 5
Using the Color Keys ........................................................ 5
Changing the Language .................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration ................................................. 7
Translating English Words ................................................ 7
Translating Spanish Words ............................................... 8
Highlighting a Word .......................................................... 9
Learning Inflections .......................................................... 9
Finding a Letter in a Word .............................................. 10
Finding a Series of Letters .............................................. 11
Correcting Misspellings .................................................. 11
Using Your Personal List ................................................ 12
Sending a Word Between Books ..................................... 13
Changing Game Settings ................................................ 14
Playing the Games .......................................................... 14
Book Card Care ............................................................. 18
Copyrights and Patents .................................................. 18

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Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to the Ready screen.
MENU
Shows Additional Functions menu.
INFL (red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) Switches between English
and Spanish entry languages.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST
(blue) Shows Personal list menu.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctuation.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
SPACE
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
Move in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
DN
Shows the next word or
inflection group.
✩
+
UP
Shows the previous word
or inflection group.
✩
+ NTypes an ñ .
➤ 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
✩
while pressing the other key.

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Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when BOOKMAN is on. If you
do, information that you entered in its
built-in book, and in an installed book
card, will 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 will be erased.
Introduction
➤ 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.
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
Spanish Master , you can now
translate and define more than 250,000
words, correct misspellings of both
Spanish and English words, view noun,
adjective, and verb inflections, and save
words to a Personal word list for a more
enjoyable way to learn.
To learn how to use other books, read
their User’s Guides.

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The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions
according to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card book is selected, the color keys
function as labelled on that book card.
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Using the Color Keys
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MAN books in book cards function as
labelled on their book cards, 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.

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➤ Typing Numbers
To type numbers, hold
✩
and press a
number key.
➤ Changing the Contrast
If you want to change the screen
contrast, repeatedly press or at
the blank ready screen.
Entry Language
The entry language is the language in
which you enter words at ready screens.
This determines which dictionary you will
use, Spanish or English.
1. If not at a menu screen, press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
LANG
to switch between
dictionaries.
▼
Changing the Language
Message Language
When you turn on this product for the
first time, you must choose the message
language. The message language is the
language of prompts, help, and other
messages. You can change the message
language after your initial decision.
Note: The examples in the English half of
this manual use English as the message
language.
1. Press
MENU
if you are not at the
Message Language screen.
2. Press A to select the Message
Language screen.
3. Press B to select English as the
message language; press Ato
select Spanish.
▼
Changing the Language

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Translating English Words
With this Spanish Master, you are able
to translate English words to Spanish
simply by typing English words.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
LANG
to change the entry
language to English, if needed.
3. Type a word (e.g., cat).
To erase a letter press
BACK
.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
➤ Explanation of Genders
Spanish nouns are different than English
nouns in that they must either be
masculine or feminine. The <m> means
that the word listed (e.g.,
hombre ) is
masculine. Likewise an <f> would show
the word to be feminine.
Viewing a Demonstration
Before you start using your new
BOOKMAN, you may want to see a
brief demonstration of what it can do.
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, press
MENU
. Then use the
arrow keys to highlight the Additional
Functions menu. Then select
View Demo.
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 use
the arrow keys to highlight the Additional
Functions menu. Highlight
Disable Demo
and press
ENTER
. To re-enable it, select
Enable Demo from the Additional Functions
menu.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of the
screen show which arrow keys you
can press to move around menus or
view more text.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press the direction keys to read it. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To read a tutorial of how to use the main
functions and keys of this book, select
Tutorial from the Additional Functions
menu.

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Translating Spanish Words
Your Spanish Master is fully bilingual. Try
translating a Spanish word.
1. Press
LANG
to change the Entry
language from English to
Spanish, if needed.
2. Type a word (e.g., mensaje).
If you need to type an accent: type
the letter (e.g., e ) and press
repeatedly until the accent you want
appears. If you want to type a
ñ, then
hold
✩
and press N .
3. Press
ENTER
.
In addition to "mensaje", the Spanish
Master translates words with similar
meanings such as “verse” . To view
more press .
4. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Translating English Words
➤ Understanding Definitions
When you find a definition, you may see
that there are several different meanings
for your word. Here is an example.
1. Type
man .
2. Press
ENTER
.
This screen shows that “hombre” is the
most common use of the word.
The capitalized words found in brackets
indicate there's another category that
this word could be used with. For
example, if you are talking about a chess
man, you would use the word “pieza”
instead of “hombre”.

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Learning Inflections
Inflections show changes in a word’s
meaning or function. This dictionary
includes extensive inflections of nouns,
verbs, modifiers, and other words.
1. Press
LANG
to switch to the
Spanish ready screen.
2. Type a Spanish word (e.g., beber).
3. Press
INFL
.
These are the principal forms of the
verb
beber .
4. Use the direction keys to read.
5. Press either
INFL
or hold
✩
and
press
DN
repeatedly to view
more inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective, or
another modifier, then there won’t be
any other inflections.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Highlighting a Word
You can look up most words by highlighting
them within dictionary definitions. You can
then find their definitions, translations, and
synonyms. Note: By searching for a
highlighted word, the entry language
changes to the language of the word for
which you searched.
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
a word.
3. Do one of the following:
To... Press...
define the word
ENTER
view inflections
INFL
add words to Personal list
LIST