Franklin BOOKMAN RMB-2030 User manual

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User’s Guide
RMB-2030
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Read Me Bible
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Contents
The Read With Me Bible is easy to
use. And this manual can help.
With the
Read With Me Bible , you
can read your favorite Bible stories
or look at just the pictures. There are
even moving pictures that you can
see again and again.
You can also learn the meaning of
many Bible words, play the Jacob’s
Ladder word game, and look up
words in other BOOKMAN books.
To learn how, just look up what you
want to do in this manual. Then fol-
low the numbered steps.
Are you ready to use the
Read With
Me Bible
? O.K. Let’s get started!
What the Keys Do .......................................................... 2
How to Get Started ........................................................ 3
How to Use the Menu .................................................... 4
How to Find a Bible Story .............................................. 5
How to Read a Bible Story............................................. 6
How to See Just Pictures .............................................. 7
How to Learn What Words Mean ................................... 8
How to Play Jacob’s Ladder .......................................... 9
How to Look Up Words in Other Books ......................... 10
How to Take Care of This Bible ..................................... 11
Warranty ........................................................................ 12
Specifications ................................................................ 13
Index.............................................................................. 15

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What the Keys Do
Other Keys
CARD Leave the
Read With Me Bible .
CLEAR Go to the OLD and NEW screen.
ENTER
Works like the green key, except
when learning words.
HELP
Get help.
?
✻
At a story, see the chapter title.
In Jacob’s Ladder, see the word.
MENU Go to the menu.
ON/OFF Turn the BOOKMAN on or off.
SPACE
Works like the green key, except
at meanings. In Jacob’s Ladder,
play a new game.
Move in menus and Bible stories.
DN
UP
See just the pictures.
The Star and CAP Keys
✩
+
CARD
Look up a learning word in
another BOOKMAN book.
✩
+
DN
At a story, go to the next
or
UP
or previous story or chapter.
CAP
+At the chapter titles, go to
or the last or the first chapter.
Red, Green, Yellow, and Blue
AGAIN
(red) See a moving picture again.
GO
(green) At the menu, go to a
picked item. At the chapter titles,
go to a chapter. At Bible stories,
go to the next page or picture. At
meanings, go back to the story.
GAME
(yellow) Play Jacob’s Ladder.
LEARN
(blue) Learn about words.
➤ Using the Color Keys
When you are using the
Read With
Me Bible
, the red, green, yellow, and
blue keys do not do what is printed
on the keys.
Instead, they do what is printed on the
Read With Me Bible card.
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How to Get Started
Before you can use the Read With Me Bible , you have to put it in your
BOOKMAN. Follow these steps.
1. Make sure your BOOKMAN is turned off.
This is important! You should never
place a card in your BOOKMAN when it
is turned on. If you do, you may damage your BOOKMAN.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Line up the Read With Me Bible card with a hole on the back.
4. Press the card into the hole.
5. Press
ON/OFF
.
6. Press
CARD
.
7. Press or to pick Read With Me Bible.
8. Press
ENTER
to start using the Read With Me Bible.

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How to Use the Menu
The menu of the Read With Me Bible has three choices. READ THE BOOK
lets you read the Old or New Testament. SEE IT WORK shows how to use
this Bible. HOW IT WORKS tells what the keys do.
1. Press MENU .
2. If you want to, hold
✩
and press
UP
or
DN
to make the screen
darker or lighter.
3. Press to pick See It Work.
4. Press
ENTER
or the green key (
GO
)to see a show about
the Read With Me Bible.
5. To stop the show, press
CLEAR
.

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It is easy to find your favorite Bible stories. Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
OLD means the Old Testament. NEW means the New Testament. To pick NEW,
press . To make the screen darker or lighter, hold
✩
and press
UP
or
DN
.
2. Press
ENTER
or the green key (
GO
) to see the title of the first
chapter in the Old Testament.
The line at the bottom shows where the chapter is in the Old or New Testament.
3. Press , , or
DN
to see the next chapter title.
To see the chapter title that comes before, press , , or
UP
. To go to the
first or last chapter in the Old Testament, hold
CAP
and press or .
4. Press
ENTER
or the green key (
GO
) to go to the chapter.
5. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to go to the next story or chapter.
How to Find a Bible Story

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How to Read a Bible Story
Once you have found a Bible story, use the green key to GO to the next page or
picture.
1. Go to the first chapter in the Old Testament, God Creates the World.
To learn how, read “How to Find a Bible Story.”
2.Press the green key (
GO
) or many times to go to the next pages.
You can also press
ENTER
, , , or
SPACE
to go to the next page or pic-
ture. To go back to the page you just saw, press or .
3. Press
?
✻
to see the title of the chapter that you are reading.
4. Hold
✩
and press to go to the next story or chapter.
5. Press
BACK
to go back to the chapter titles.

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How to See Just Pictures
All the Bible stories have pictures, and some have moving pictures. Use
and when you want to see only the pictures. Use the red key when you
want to see a moving picture AGAIN.
1. Go to the first chapter in the Old Testament, God Creates the World.
To learn how, read “How to Find a Bible Story.”
2. Press many times to see the pictures in the story.
3. Press the red key (
AGAIN
)to see a moving picture again.
4. Press to see a picture that came before.
5. Press more times to see more pictures.
You also see the story and chapter titles when you press .
6. Press
BACK
to go back to the chapter titles.

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How to Learn What Words Mean
Use the blue key when you want to LEARN what certain Bible words mean.
1. Go to the first chapter in the New Testament, Mary and the Angel.
To learn how, read “How to Find a Bible Story.”
2. Press the green key (
GO
) to go to the first page.
3. Press the blue key (
LEARN
) to see the learning words.
The learning words are in capital letters.
4. Press the arrow keys to pick the learning word Mary.
5. Press the blue key (
LEARN
) or
ENTER
to learn about Mary.
6. Press to read the meaning.
You can press the blue key now to see if there are any learning words in the meaning. Then
press the arrow keys to pick the one you want and the blue key or
ENTER
to learn its meaning.
7. Press the green key(
GO
) or
BACK
to go back to the story.