Franklin BookMan GDS-2026 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
GDS-2026
Great Documents
of American History

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1
Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOK-
MAN®! With this compilation of great
documents, you can read over 60 of
the most important documents and
speeches to have shaped America. In
addition, most have background infor-
mation on topics such as the causes,
provisions, results, dates, and people
related to the documents. You can lo-
cate a document from the list or cus-
tomize your searches to find docu-
ments by subject, people, year, or the
type of document. You can also find
facts about U.S. presidents at the
touch of a key. There are also two quiz
games that test your knowledge of
America’s history.
Use your BOOKMAN to read this
book card. See “Installing Book
Cards” to learn how.
Installing Book Cards and Selecting Books ........................3
Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings ......................4
A Note From the Editors .....................................................5
Viewing a Demonstration ...................................................5
Finding a Document ...........................................................6
Reading the Document .......................................................6
Viewing the Notes ..............................................................7
Using the Locate Menu .......................................................8
Using the Search Screen ....................................................9
Finding Parts of Words .......................................................10
Reading About Presidents ..................................................11
Playing the Games..............................................................12
Sending a Word Between Books .........................................13
Resetting BOOKMAN .........................................................13

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Other Keys
BACK
Backs up a step or erases a letter.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctuation
at the search screen.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
?✱
Expands a menu name; shifted,
types an
✽ at the search screen.
Direction Keys
Moves down one line; in
games, gives a hint.
Moves up one line; in games,
shows the score.
Move left or right.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
Star Key Combinations
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
ENTER
Goes to background text
from the list of documents
or highlights showing icons.
✩
+
DN
Shows next entry or match.
✩
+
UP
Showspreviousentryormatch.
Function Keys
CLEAR Clears to the main menus.
MENU Shows the main menus.
PRES
(red) Goes to the Facts about
the presidents list.
TEXT
(green) Skips background informa-
tion and goes directly to the text of
the document.
GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST (blue) Key has no function.
CARD Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the book described in
this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN books have their
own color key functions, which are
labelled on their book cards or on the
keyboard. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”

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Installing Book Cards
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card when BOOKMAN is on. If
you do, information that you entered
in its built-in book and in an installed
book card will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the book card until it
snaps into place.
Selecting Books
Once you have installed a book card
in your BOOKMAN, you can select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn 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.
➤ Removing Book Cards
Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another,
information that you entered in the
removed book card will be erased.
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off BOOKMAN at
any screen. When you turn
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed appears.

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Using the Color Keys
The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card is selected, the color keys func-
tion as labelled on that book card.
Remember, the color keys for BOOK-
MAN books in book cards function as
labelled on their book cards, not as on
the keyboard.
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You can adjust the type size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast. The type
size changes the number of lines of
text that appear on screen. The shut-
off time is how long BOOKMAN stays
on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Highlight Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight a setting.
Or press or if you selected
Set Contrast .
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
To exit without changing settings,
press
BACK
.
Changing Settings

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Viewing a DemonstrationA Note From the Editors
The editors at Franklin Electronic Pub-
lishers wish to note that the documents
in this book were taken word for word
from copies of original documents wher-
ever possible.
Archaic spellings and use of uppercase
were corrected to their modern versions
(for example: “... for all manner of Mynes
of Gold, Sylver, and Copper...” was cor-
rected to “...for all mines of gold, silver,
and copper...”). However, obsolete
words were not changed (for example:
“hath” remained as is, and was not
changed to “has”). The older documents
in particular contain words that are now
considered obsolete.
Likewise, many of the older documents
have no headings, sections, or para-
graphs. In order to make them easier to
read, we added sections where appro-
priate for those documents.
Brackets were used to show where any
word or section heading was added, or
any word was edited (except for spelling
and case).
Before you start using your new
BOOKMAN, you may want to see a
brief demonstration of what it can do.
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, simply select
View Demo
from the Setup menu to view the demo.
When a book card is not installed in your
BOOKMAN, the demonstration will au-
tomatically appear after you turn the unit
on. To stop the demonstration, press
CLEAR
. To disable it, press
MENU
and then
select
Disable Demo from the Setup
menu. To re-enable it, select
Enable
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
. Press the direction keys to
read it. To exit help, press
BACK
.
If you want to read a tutorial, select
Tutorial from the Setup 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 to view more text.

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Finding a Document Reading the Document
There are two ways to find a document
from the Documents list. You can scroll
to the document, or you can type the
name at the Documents list. Docu-
ments are listed by date from oldest
to newest. Some documents have
background information while others
have only the document’s text.
Scrolling to a Document
1. Press
CLEAR
to go to the
Documents list.
2. Press repeatedly to highlight
Mayflower Compact (1620).
Using the Alpha-search
1. Press
CLEAR
to go to the
Documents list.
2. Start typing MA to highlight
Mayflower Compact (1620).
The slanted arrow at the right of
the line means that there are
submenus below.
Here is how to read a document and its
background information. Background in-
formation consists of the causes, provi-
sions, results, signatories, dates, and
source of the document.
Go to the
Mayflower Compact and fol-
low these steps.
1. Press
ENTER
to go to its
submenu.
To bypass the submenu and go
directly to the
Mayflower
Compact’s
text, press
TEXT
instead.
2. Press
ENTER
to go to the
background information.
3. Press
ENTER
again to select
Causes.
4. Press repeatedly to scroll
down line by line or press
or
SPACE
to scroll down screen
by screen.
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Reading a Document Viewing the Notes
5. Hold
CAP
and press to
zoom to the next topic
heading.
To zoom back to the previous topic
heading, hold
CAP
and press .
6. Press
BACK
repeatedly to back
up.
7. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Throughout this book, you will see bib-
liography, cross-reference, and foot-
note icons. They have added informa-
tion on the document you are reading.
Here’s how to view them.
1. Go to a document with a
, , or icon.
2. Hold
✩
and press
ENTER
to
highlight the first icon.
To highlight another icon on screen,
press
✩
plus
ENTER
again.
3. Press
ENTER
to go to the note.
4. Press
BACK
to go back to the
document.
5. Press
BACK
again to turn off
the highlight.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
➤Text Viewing Tips
To... Press...
Go directly to the text
TEXT
of a document from
the Documents list
Zoom to the next
CAP +
topic heading
Zoom to the previous
CAP +
topic heading

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With Great Documents you have the
option of searching for a document by
using these filters:
Subject , People ,
Year , and Document type . This makes
finding documents by topic quick and
easy. Try this example.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press or to highlight the
Locate menu.
3. Press and then
ENTER
to
select People as a filter.
4. Start typing Franklin,
Benjamin.
5. Press
ENTER
.
The check shows that Franklin,
Benjamin
is selected as a filter. To
deselect a filter, press
ENTER
again.
Press now to go the list of
Using the Locate Menu
Using the Locate Menu
matches for Benjamin Franklin, or
go on to add another filter.
6. Press
BACK
twice to go back
to the Locate menu.
The check shows that a person is
currently selected as a filter.
7. Press and then
ENTER
to
select Subject as a filter.
8. Select a subject (e.g., Consti-
tution and its Precursors).
9. Press to go to the new list
of matches.
10. Highlight a document and
press
TEXT
to go directly to
the text, or press
ENTER
to go
to its submenus.
➤Clearing All Filters
If you want to clear the filters you’ve
chosen and don’t want to go back
and deselect each one, select
Clear
all filters
from the Locate menu.