Franklin BOOKMAN FLX-2074 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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MovieViews®
USER’S GUIDE
FLX-2074

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Contents
Key Guide ....................................................................... 1
Introduction .................................................................... 3
Installing a Book Card ..................................................... 3
Selecting a Book ............................................................. 4
Using the Color Keys ....................................................... 4
Viewing the Demonstration ............................................. 5
Finding Movies by Title .................................................... 5
Using the Movies Menu ................................................... 6
Finding Movies by Cast ................................................... 7
Finding Movies by Director.............................................. 8
Finding Movies by Theme ................................................ 8
Finding Movies by Year ................................................... 9
Searching by a Range of Years ........................................ 9
Searching by Other Categories ...................................... 10
Searching by Multiple Categories .................................. 11
Using Bookmarks .......................................................... 12
Playing the Games ......................................................... 13
Hangman ....................................................................... 13
Movie Quiz .................................................................... 14
Changing the Settings ................................................... 15
Book Card Care ............................................................ 16
Copyrights and Patents ................................................. 16

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Key Guide
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
DN
UP
Pages up or down.
In a movie review goes
to the beginning or end.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
DN
Moves down within a movie
review.
✩
+
UP
Moves up in a movie review.
✩
+
Q
-
P
Types numbers (1 to 0).
Color Keys
CAST (red) Shows the Cast
Member’s menu.
SEARCH
(green) Prompts you to search
for words in movie titles.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the Games
menu.
THEME (blue) ShowstheThememenu .
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
ends a highlight.
CARD
Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR
Clears an entry.
ENTER
Selects a highlighted word in
text.
HELP
Shows help messages.
MENU
Goes to the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns the BOOKMAN on
or off.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
*Note: Hold down
✩
while pressing the other key.
CAP
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed above only for the book card
described in this User’s Guide.
Other book cards have their own
color key functions, which are la-
belled on the book cards. For more
information, read “Using the Color
Keys.”

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Installing a Book CardIntroduction
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.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while the BOOKMAN is
turned on. All the data you entered
into the built-in book, and in your
Movie Views book card, will be lost.
➤ Removing a Book Card
➤ About Screen Illustrations
The screen illustrations in this User’s
Guide may differ from what is actu-
ally seen on the screen. This does
not mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
The BOOKMAN is an electronic unit
with a built-in book inside. A slot in the
back lets you snap in book cards from
Franklin’s electronic library. The prod-
uct is portable; it can go with you
anywhere.
The
Movie Views™ book card provides
a guide to 9,500 movies. It
is de-
signed to help you search quickly for
movie titles, director’s, cast, themes,
critics, or ratings. Using different cat-
egories, the searches show who won
Academy Awards, what year, or details
on cast members.
Movie Views title
word searches help you choose mov-
ies to see.

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Once this book card has been installed in
the BOOKMAN you can select which
book 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 Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change their functions
according to which book you are using.
When you are using the built-in book,
the color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When you are
using a book card, the color keys func-
tion as labelled on that book card.
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➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN at
any time. When you turn on your
BOOKMAN, 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
menus or view more text.

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Viewing the Demonstration
Before you use this book, you may want
to see a brief demonstration.
First be certain that this book card is in-
stalled in your BOOKMAN and that you
have selected it. To learn how, read “In-
stalling a Book Card” and “Selecting a
Book.” Then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight View Demo on the
Setup menu.
3. Press
ENTER
to start the
demo.
4. To stop the demo, press
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Use the direction keys to read it. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To see a tutorial and key guide de-
scribing the functions of this book
card, select
Tutorial from the Setup
menu.
The fastest way to find movies is to do a
Title Word Search.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
SEARCH
(green) to go to
the Title Word Search screen.
3. Type one or more words from
a movie title.
You do not have to type capital letters.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Use and to highlight a
title, and then press
ENTER
.
6. Use the and to scroll
through the movie review, or
Finding Movies by Title

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Using the Movies Menu
Finding Movies by Title
You can also search for movie titles on
the Movies menu.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a movie title (e.g., Big)
until it is highlighted.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Use to read the movie
review.
5. To go to the next movie
review alphabetically listed
on the Movies menu, hold
✩
and press .
Or hold
✩
and press to go to
the previous review.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
CAP and to go to
beginning or end, or use
spacebar. (see Key Guide)
7. Hold
✩
and press or
key go to the next or previ-
ous title found by your
search.
8. To return to the list of your
matches, press
MENU
.
9. Press
BACK
repeatedly to
return to the Title Word
Search screen. Or press
CLEAR
to clear your search.
DN

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Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Cast
The Cast Members menu lets you find
movies by the stars that played in them.
1. Press
CAST
(red).
Or select Cast Members from the
Search menu.
2. Begin typing a cast member’s
name (e.g., Marvin, Lee).
Cast members’ names should be
typed as they appear, with the last
name first.
3. Press
ENTER
when the name is
highlighted.
If you check more than one cast
member, the
search includes mov-
ies featuring all of the cast mem-
bers. To deselect a cast member,
press
ENTER
again.
4. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 to
select more cast members.
5. Press to view the films
featuring that cast member
you selected.
6. Press
ENTER
to select a movie.
7. To return to the Cast Mem-
bers menu, press
CAST
.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.
➤Selecting More than One
Cast Member
MovieViews can search for movies
that feature several cast members.
From the Search menu, select a
cast member and then press
ENTER
.
Scroll down or type in name and
then press to view matches.
Press
ENTER
again to view other
cast members. Scroll down and
press
ENTER
again to view other
movies of that cast member.
Press
ENTER
again and then scroll to
the cast member you want.

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Finding Movies by Director
You can also search for movies that
have a specific director. Also, by se-
lecting more than one director,
MovieViews searches for films di-
rected by all of the selected directors.
1. Select Directors from the
Search menu.
2. Begin typing a director’s
name (e.g., Stone, Oliver).
3. Press
ENTER
when the director
is highlighted.
4. Press or
MENU
to view
movies.
5. Press
ENTER
to select a movie.
6. To return to the Directors
menu, press
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Movies by Theme
You can search through 550 movie
themes, and some movies have more
than 10 themes. A theme is the central
idea of the film (e.g.,
Drama , Abduc-
tion (1975) . You can search for films
that share more than one theme.
1. Press
THEME
(blue), or select
from the Search menu, and
then press
ENTER
.
2. Begin typing the desired
theme (e.g., desert).
3. When the theme is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Press or
MENU
to view
movies.
5. Press
ENTER
to select a movie.
6. To return to the Theme menu,
press
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.