Franklin BOOKMAN Lord Jim BKS-6001 User manual

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
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BOOKMAN
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USER’S GUIDE
BKS-6001
Lord Jim

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Contents
With your new Lord Jim book card you
can read this famous novel in your
BOOKMAN at home, work, or school.
You can adjust its automatic scrolling
to the reading speed that is right for
you. You can read helpful study
guides–chapter summaries, character
biographies, and definitions–to in-
crease your understanding and enjoy-
ment of the novel. And you can even
place electronic bookmarks to quickly
find your favorite passages.
Key Guide ...................................................................... 2
Installing a Book Card ................................................... 3
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 3
Using the Color Keys..................................................... 4
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 4
Changing the Settings ................................................... 5
Selecting a Chapter ....................................................... 5
Reading the Novel ......................................................... 6
Using the Study Guides ................................................. 7
Using Bookmarks .......................................................... 10
Returning to a Page ....................................................... 11
Looking up Words in Other Books ................................ 11
Resetting BOOKMAN .................................................... 12
Book Card Care ............................................................. 12
Index.............................................................................. 14

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Key Guide
Color Keys
SUM
(red) At a chapter, displays a
chapter summary.
MARK
(green) Places a bookmark
at a paragraph in the novel.
DEF
(yellow) Displays a definition
of a marked word in the novel.
CHAR
(blue) Displays a character’s
biography.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up to the previous screen.
CARD Exits the selected book.
CLEAR Highlights the Contents menu.
ENTER
Selects a menu item, or high-
lights a word or a
superscript D
(
D
) in the novel.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU Toggles between the menus
and text.
ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
P
Displays the Progress Gauge.
?*
At the text of the novel, displays
the chapter and page number.
Automatic Scrolling Keys
S
At the text of the novel, turns
the automatic scrolling on or off.
SPACE
If the automatic scrolling is turned
or
Z
on, suspend or resume the
scrolling. If the automatic scroll-
ing is turned off, page down.
Change the speed of the
automatic scrolling.
Direction Keys
Scroll line by line.
Scroll screen by screen.
At the text of the novel, go to
the next or previous paragraph.
At a study guide entry selected
from the Study Guide menu, go
to the next or previous entry.
CAP
+ At the text of the novel,
or go to the next or previous
chapter.
✩
+
CARD
Look up a highlighted
word from this novel in another
BOOKMAN book.
✩
DN
+
UP
or
UP
DN

3
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 Selecting a Book
➤ 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.
Once you’ve installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you can select
which book you want to use.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight a
book symbol.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
➤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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Using the Color Keys
Before you begin, you may want to
see a brief demonstration of how to
use this book. Simply install the book
card and then follow these steps.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
CLEAR
.
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’ve selected
to use.
If you’ve selected the built-in book,
the color keys function as labeled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you’ve
selected a book card, the color keys
function 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.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can see a help message at vir-
tually any screen by pressing
HELP
. Press or
DN
to read the
message. Press
BACK
to exit it.
To read a tutorial about how to use
this book, select
Tutorial from the
Setup menu.
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Selecting a Chapter
To read this novel, you must first se-
lect a chapter. Here is how.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
The Contents menu is highlighted.
2. Type a chapter number (e.g. 12).
To type a number, hold
✩
and
press the numbered keys. To
undo a number, press
BACK
.
You can also highlight a chapter by
pressing or
DN
.
3. When the chapter is
highlighted, press
ENTER
.
This is the start of the Chapter 12.
To learn how to read it, see
“Reading the Novel.”
4. Press
BACK
or
MENU
to go
back to the menus.
Changing the Settings
You can adjust the automatic scroll-
ing speed, type size, shutoff time,
and screen contrast of this book.
The shutoff time is how long your
BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to
turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight
Set Scroll Speed, Set Type Size,
Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast on
the Setup menu.
The slanted arrow indicates a
submenu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Press or to change the
setting.
Or, if you selected Set Scroll
Speed
, press or .
5. Press
ENTER
when done.
Or press
BACK
to leave the set-
ting unchanged.

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Once you’ve selected a chapter to
read, you can scroll through its
pages manually or automatically. You
can even adjust the speed of the au-
tomatic scrolling as you read.
1. Select a chapter (e.g. Chapter 12).
2. To scroll manually, use these keys:
To... Use...
scroll line by line or
scroll screen by screen
DN
or
UP
go to the next or
✩
+
previous paragraph
DN
or
UP
go to the next or
CAP
+
previous chapter or
3. Press
S
to scroll automati-
cally.
4. To change the speed of the au-
tomatic scrolling, press or
repeatedly.
5. To suspend and resume the auto-
Reading the Novel
matic scrolling, use
SPACE
or
Z
.
6. Press
S
to turn off the auto-
matic scrolling.
Reading the Novel
➤ About Automatic Scrolling
Whenever you’re reading the novel,
you can turn on the automatic scrolling
by pressing
S
. To turn it off, press
S
again.
Pressing
SPACE
or
Z
is not the
same as pressing
S
. After pressing
S
, pressing
SPACE
or
Z
suspends
or resumes the automatic scrolling.
However, if you haven’t pressed
S
to start the automatic scrolling, press-
ing
SPACE
or
Z
scrolls down screen
by screen.
You don’t have to suspend the auto-
matic scrolling to change its speed.
Simply press or .
Also, during automatic scrolling, the
automatic shutoff is disabled and there
is a brief pause at the end of each
paragraph.

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Using the Study Guides
As you read this novel, you can use the
study guides: definitions of marked
words, biographies of certain charac-
ters, and summaries of chapters.
You can read a chapter summary
whenever you’re reading the novel.
You can read a character biography
whenever a character’s name appears
in the novel. (Not all characters have bi-
ographies.) And you can read a defini-
tion whenever a word marked by a
superscript
D (i.e.,
D) appears.
Try this example.
1. From the Contents menu,
select Chapter 26.
2. Press
SUM
(the red key) to
see its chapter summary.
Use or
DN
to read it.
Reading the Novel
➤ Viewing the Page Number
You can see the number of the
chapter and page that you’re read-
ing by pressing
? *
.
The page number is a count of the
paragraphs from the start of the
novel.
➤ Viewing Your Progress
While reading the novel, you can
quickly gauge your progress by
pressing
P
.
After a few seconds, you’ll return
to the novel.
You can also see the Progress
Gauge by selecting
View Progress
from the Setup menu.

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Using the Study Guides
3. Press
BACK
to go back to the
novel.
Notice the character’s name,
Doramin , at the start of the chapter.
4. Press
CHAR
(the blue key) to
see his biography.
Use or
DN
to read it.
5. Press
BACK
to go back to the
novel.
6. Scroll down until you see the
word sarongs.
The superscript D after sarongs
indicates a definition.
7. Press
DEF
(the yellow key) to
see its definition.
The definition scrolls automatically and
then disappears. You don’t need to
press
BACK
to go back to the novel.
Using the Study Guides
➤ Using the Study Guide Menu
The definitions, characters’ biogra-
phies, and chapter summaries are
also listed on the Study Guide menu.
To use the Study Guide menu,
press to highlight
Definitions ,
Characters , or Chapter Summa-
ries
and then press
ENTER
. Next,
highlight a study guide entry by
typing its first few letters (e.g.,
DO
for Doramin under Characters ).
Then press
ENTER
to select it.
Once you’ve selected a study
guide entry, you can view the next
or previous entry listed on the
menu by holding
✩
and pressing
DN
or
UP
.