Franklin BOOKMAN DMQ-440 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
User’s Guide
DMQ-440
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Electronic Publishers
B OO K MAN
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Dictionary
& Thesaurus
QUEEN’SENGLISH

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Contents
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 your new
Dictionary &
Thesaurus
you can find over 83,000
dictionary entries and 41,000 thesau-
rus entries with 496,000 synonyms,
correct misspellings, save words to
your User list, and play three fun and
educational word games. To learn
how, read this User’s Guide.
Installing Batteries and Cards ................................................. 4
Selecting a Book and Using the Colour Keys ......................... 5
Changing Settings and Viewing the Demonstration ............... 6
Finding Definitions .................................................................. 7
Finding Synonyms ................................................................... 7
Finding Confusables®.............................................................. 8
Finding Words in Definitions ................................................... 9
Highlighting Words .................................................................. 9
Correcting Misspellings .......................................................... 10
Finding a Letter in a Word ....................................................... 10
Finding a Series of Letters ...................................................... 11
Reviewing Your Words ............................................................ 11
Using the User List .................................................................. 12
Sending Words Between Books .............................................. 13
Changing Game Settings ......................................................... 14
Playing the Games .................................................................. 14
Index ........................................................................................ 18

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Function Keys
CLEAR Clears to
Enter your word .
MENU Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows synonym lists.
CONF
(green) Shows Confusables®.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games.
LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu.
CARD Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF Turns the BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
turns off a highlight in the text.
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.
Arrow Keys
At text, menus, and lists, move
up or down. At the Entry screen,
darken or lighten the contrast.
Move left or right.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
DN
Shows the next match.
✩
+
UP
Shows the previous match.
✩
+ Types a hyphen.
✽
?
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key .
➤ Understanding the Colour Keys
The colour 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 colour
key functions, which are labelled on
their cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Colour Keys.”

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BOOKMAN 440 models use two
CR2032 3-volt batteries. Here is how
to install or replace the batteries.
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.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when your BOOKMAN is
on. If you do, information that you en-
tered in its built-in book, and in an in-
stalled 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 card down until it
snaps into place.
Installing CardsInstalling Batteries
➤ Removing Cards
Warning: When you remove a
card to install another, information
that you entered into the removed
card will be erased.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN
at any screen. When you turn
your BOOKMAN on again, the
screen that you last viewed
appears.

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Selecting a Book Using the Colour Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on your BOOKMAN change functions
according to which book you are us-
ing.
When the built-in book is selected, the
colour keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
in a card is selected, the colour keys
function as labelled on that card.
Remember, when you have selected
and are using a book in a card, the
colour keys function as labeled on that
card, not as on the keyboard.
Once you have installed a card in your
BOOKMAN, you must 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.
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ slightly
from what you see on screen.
This does not mean that your
BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.
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Changing Settings
Before you start using your BOOKMAN,
you can see a demonstration of what it
can do.
When no card is installed in your BOOK-
MAN, the demonstration automatically
appears when you turn on your BOOK-
MAN. To stop the demonstration, press
CLEAR
. To disable it, press
MENU
, and
then select
Disable Demo from the
menus. To re-enable it, select
Enable
Demo
.
When a card is installed in your BOOK-
MAN, select
View Demo from the
menus to see the demonstration.
Viewing the Demonstration
You can adjust the font size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast.
The font size changes the number of
lines of text that appear on screen.
The shutoff time is how long BOOK-
MAN stays on if you forget to turn it
off.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Highlight Set Font, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a setting.
Or press and if you selected
Set Contrast .
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
. Then press to read it. To
exit help, press
BACK
or
HELP
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can use to move around
menus or view more text.

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Finding Definitions
You can find definitions simply by typ-
ing a word at the Entry screen and
then pressing
ENTER
. Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
to clear the Entry
screen.
2. Type a word (e.g., acumen).
3. Press
ENTER
to see its
definition(s).
The main word appears in bold type
with hyphenation points, followed by
its part of speech.
4. Press or
SPACE
to see more.
5. To see the definition(s) of the
next or previous word listed
in this dictionary, hold
✩
and press
DN
or
UP
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Synonyms
It’s easy to find synonyms for words
by using the
THES
key.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).
3. Press
THES
to see synonyms
of the word.
4. Press or
SPACE
to move
down.
Each thesaurus entry lists
synonyms with closely related
meanings. Many words have
more than one thesaurus entry.
5. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to see
the next list of synonyms, if
any.

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Confusables are homonyms and spell-
ing variants that are easy to confuse.
If a word has Confusables, will
flash once in the upper right of the
screen.
1. Type a word (e.g., rein).
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press
CONF
.
Each Confusable is paired with an
identifying word.
4. Press
ENTER
and then use the
arrow keys to highlight a
word.
5. Press
ENTER
to see its
definition(s).
6. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Confusables®
Finding Synonyms
➤ Another Way to Find
Synonyms
You can also find synonyms when
you see a flash at the upper
right of the screen.
Simply press
THES
to see
synonyms of the main or high-
lighted word. Then hold
✩
and
press
DN
to see the next list of
synonyms, if any.
6. To return to the previous
synonym list, hold
✩
and
press
UP
.
7. Press
CLEAR
when finished.

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Search for a Word lets you find all of
the definitions in which a specific word
appears.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
MENU
.
3. Select Search for a word from
the Other menu.
4. Type a word (e.g., legal).
5. Press
ENTER
.
6. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to see
the next definition that
includes your word.
To see the previous one, hold
✩
and press
UP
.
7. Press or
SPACE
to move
down.
8. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Finding Words in Definitions Highlighting Words
Another way to look up words is by
highlighting them in definitions, syn-
onym lists, or correction lists. Then
you can find their definitions, syn-
onyms, Confusables, or add them to
your User list.
1. At any definition or list, press
ENTER
to start the highlight.
To turn the highlight off, press
BACK
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light a word.
3. Do one of the following:
To... Press...
view definition(s)
ENTER
view synoyms
THES
view Confusables
CONF
add word to User list
LIST