Franklin BOOKMAN CDR-2041 User manual

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EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
CDR-2041
®
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 read a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press or
DN
to read the mes-
sage. 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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Before you start using this book, you
may want to view a demonstration of
what it can do.
If no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, the demonstration au-
tomatically appears the first time that
you turn on the unit. To stop the
demonstration, press
CLEAR
. To dis-
able it, press
MENU
, highlight Setup ,
and then select
Disable Demo .
If a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, select
View Demo
from the Setup menu to view the
demonstration.

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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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Reading a Drug Profile
Drug profiles provide detailed informa-
tion about prescriptions, dosage, side
effects, drug interactions, and more.
Follow this example to learn how to
read a drug profile.
1. Go to the start of the drug pro-
file for Tylenol.
To learn how, read “Looking up a
Drug.”
2. Use or to scroll line by line.
3. Use
DN
or
UP
to scroll screen
by screen.
4. Hold
✩
and press
DN
or
UP
to
go to the next or previous
section.
Looking up a Drug
➤ If You Misspell a Drug Name
If you misspell a drug name while
typing at the Drugs menu, the spell-
ing correction mode appears.
Type the remainder of the name to
the best of your knowledge. Then
press
ENTER
to see the corrections.
Then highlight a correction and press
ENTER
to see its drug profile.
➤ Try This Shortcut
To go directly from a drug name on
the Drugs menu to its drug profile,
hold
✩
and press
ENTER
.
5. Use or
DN
to scroll down.
To learn more ways to read a drug
profile, see “Reading a Drug Profile.”
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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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.
Reading Health Overviews
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.
Reading a Drug Profile
➤ 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.