Franklin Bookman MOVIEVIEWS FLX-440 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B OO K MAN
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MovieViews
USER’S GUIDE
FLX-440
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1
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec-
tronic reference with a built-in book and a
slot in the back for more books.
With MovieViews
™
, you now own a power-
ful movie guide that you can take anywhere.
MovieViews is designed to help you quickly
find the movies that you want to see, in ways
that you cannot with a printed book. With
this electronic movie guide you can find over
5,000 movie reviews and search for mov-
ies that won Academy Awards, were re-
leased in a specific year, or feature a spe-
cific cast member, and much more.
To learn how to use other book cards, read
their User’s Guides.
Installing Batteriesand Installing a Book Card.................. 3
Selecting a Book and Using the Color Keys ..................... 4
Changing Settings and Viewing the Demonstration .......... 5
Finding a Movie Review ................................................... 6
Finding Movies by Cast ................................................... 7
Finding Movies by Director.............................................. 8
Finding Movies by Theme ................................................ 9
Using the Locate Menu .................................................... 9
Locating Movies by Year................................................ 10
Selecting a Range of Years ............................................ 11
Putting It All Together ................................................... 11
Placing Notes ................................................................ 12
Viewing and Removing Notes ........................................ 13
Playing the Games......................................................... 13
Playing Hangman .......................................................... 14
Playing Movie Quiz ........................................................ 14
Contents

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Color Keys
CAST (red) Shows the Cast list.
DIR (green) Shows the Director list.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
THEME
(blue) Shows the Theme list.
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CARD
Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR
Clears an entry.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, or starts
a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
MENU
Goes to the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on
or off.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
? ✽
Shows full menu name or
outline location.
Key Guide
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
DN
UP
Pages up or down.
Star Key Combinations✽
✩
+
DN
From within a movie review,
goes to the next review
alphabetically.
✩
+
UP
From within a movie review,
goes to the previous review
alphabetically.
✩
+
Q
-
P
Types numbers (1 to 0).
➤ 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.

3
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you 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 on 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,
information that you entered in the
removed book card will be erased.
Installing Batteries
The BOOKMAN 440 model uses two
CR-2032 lithium batteries. Here is how
to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from your
BOOKMAN, information that you have
entered in its built-in book as well as in
any installed 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
➤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.

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Once you have 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
.
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 the screen. This does
not mean that your BOOKMAN is
malfunctioning.
Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
the top row of your BOOKMAN change
their functions according to which book
you have selected.
If you have selected the built-in book, the
color keys function as labeled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have se-
lected a book card, the color keys func-
tion as labeled on that card.
Remember, when you’ve selected a
book card, the color keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.
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Changing Settings
Viewing the Demonstration
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, a demonstration automati-
cally appears once you turn it on. To stop
the demonstration, press
CLEAR
. To dis-
able it, press
MENU
and then select Dis-
able Demo
from the Other menu. To re-
enable it, select Enable Demo .
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, select
View Demo from
the Other menu to view the demo.
➤ 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 see a tutorial and key guide
describing the functions of this book,
select
Tutorial from the Other 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.
From the Other menu, you can adjust the
type size, the shutoff time and the screen
contrast.
Set Type Size changes the
number of lines of text that appear on the
screen.
Set Shutoff changes how long
your BOOKMAN stays turned on if you
forget to turn it off.
Set Contrast allows
you to make the screen lighter or darker.
1. Press
CLEAR
or
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light the Other menu.
3. Highlight Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
5. Highlight a setting.
Or press or if you selected
Set Contrast .
To exit without changing settings,
press BACK .
6. Press
ENTER
to select a setting.

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MovieViews contains movie reviews
for over 5,000 movies between 1914
and 1994. Here is how to find a movie
by name. NOTE: All of the lists in
MovieViews are alphabetized letter-by-
letter, regardless of punctuation or
spacing. For example, the movie
Ace
Ventura: Pet Detective is listed before
A Change of Seasons .
1. Press
CLEAR
.
You can always return to this list by
pressing
CLEAR
.
2. Begin typing a movie title
until it is highlighted (e.g.,
Big).
Movie titles that begin with an
article, such as
a , an , or the , are
listed both with the article (e.g.,
The
Sting ) and separate from the article
(e.g.
Sting, The ).
Finding a Movie Review Finding a Movie Review
3. Press
ENTER
when it is high-
lighted.
4. Press to read the movie
review.
5. To go to the next review
alphabetically hold
✩
and
press
DN
.
Or hold
✩
and press
UP
to go to
the previous review.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
➤ Another Way to Search for
Movie Titles
You can also search for movies by
typing the first few letters of the
movie, and then pressing until the
movie title you want is highlighted.
Then press
ENTER
to view the movie
review.

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With MovieViews you can search for
movies that feature one or more specific
cast members. In this example, we will
search for movies that feature Lee
Marvin.
If you check more than one cast mem-
ber,
MovieViews will search for movies
featuring all of the cast members.
1. Press
CAST
.
Or select
Cast Members from the
Locate menu.
2. Begin typing the cast
member’s name (e.g.,
Marvin, Lee).
Note : Cast members’ names
should be typed as they appear,
with their last name before their
first.
3. When the name is high-
lighted press
ENTER
.
To deselect a cast member, press
ENTER
again.
Finding Movies by Cast Finding Movies by Cast
4. Press or
MENU
to view the
films featuring that cast
member.
5. Select a movie.
You can search this list the same
way that you search the main movie
list.
6. To return to the Cast menu,
press
CAST
or
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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Finding Movies by Director
You can also search for movies that were
directed by a specific director. NOTE: By
selecting more than one director,
MovieViews searches for films directed
by all of the selected directors.
1. Press
DIR
.
Or select
Director(s) from the
Locate menu.
2. Begin typing the director’s
name (e.g., Stone, Oliver).
3. Press
ENTER
, when the director
is highlighted.
4. Press or
MENU
.
5. Select a movie.
6. To return to the Director list,
press
DIR
or
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Movies by Cast
➤Another Way to Find Cast
Members
When reading a movie review, you can
find other movies that include the
same cast member. Press
ENTER
and
then press to highlight the cast
member you want.
Then press
ENTER
again to search for
the movies that include the high-
lighted cast member.
To turn off the highlight, press
BACK
.

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Finding Movies by Theme
There are over 550 searchable themes
in
MovieViews , and most of the movies
have 10 themes or more. Themes are
the subject matter of the films (e.g.,
Drama , 19th Century , Jack the Ripper ,
etc.). You can also look for films that
share one or more themes.
1. Press
THEME
.
Or select
Theme from the Locate
menu.
2. Begin typing the desired
theme (e.g., James Bond).
3. When the theme is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Press or
MENU
.
5. Select a movie.
6. To return to the Theme menu,
press
THEME
or
BACK
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Using the Locate Menu
You can look for specific movies by nar-
rowing your searches by categories. In
the following example we will search for
movies that won an Academy Award for
Best Adapted Screenplay.
1. Highlight the Locate menu .
2. Select a category (e.g.,
Awards).
3. Highlight the subcategory
you wish to view (e.g.,
Adapted Screenplay).
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press or
MENU
to view the
matches.
6. Select a movie.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.