Franklin BOOKMAN MWS-2018 User manual


Electronic Publishers
™
User’sGuide
MWS-2018

Electronic Publishers
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060
Cartridge
Dictionary
& Thesaurus

1
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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMANisapowerful,portableelec-
tronic reference with a built-in book and
a slot in the back for more books. With
this
Dictionary&Thesaurus youcanfind
andhear over 83,000dictionary entries,
and 41,000 thesaurus entries with
496,000 synonyms. You can also cor-
rect misspellings, save words to your
Userlist, and playthreefun, educational
word games. To learn how to use other
books, read their User’s Guides.
Installing Cartridges and Selecting Books..................... 4
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Changing Settings ......................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Finding Definitions and Finding Words in Definitions .... 7
Correcting Misspellings................................................. 8
Finding Synonyms ......................................................... 8
Finding Spellings ........................................................... 9
Highlighting Words ........................................................ 10
Finding Confusables™ ................................................... 10
Hearing and Reviewing Words ....................................... 11
Using the User List ........................................................ 12
Sending Words .............................................................. 13
Changing Game Settings ............................................... 14
Playing the Games ......................................................... 14

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➤ 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 cartridges and listed
in their User’s Guides. For more
information, read “Using the Color
Keys.”
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
CAP
Shifts keys to type punctua-
tion.
ENTER
Enters a search, selects a
menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP
Shows help messages.
?✱
Types a ? to stand for an
unknown letter in a word;
shows Confusables™in text;
shifted, types an
✻ to stand
for a series of unknown letters.
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
SPACE
Types a space or pages down.
Star Key Combinations*
✩+
CARD
Sendsawordbetweenbooks.
✩+ Shows next entry or match.
✩+ Showspreviousentryormatch.
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.
Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to Enter your word .
MENU
Shows the main menus.
THES
(red) Shows a thesaurus entry.
SAY
(green) Says a word.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
LIST
(blue) Shows the User list menu.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
UP
DN

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Warning: Never install or remove a
cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If
you do, information that you entered
in its built-in book, and in an installed
cartridge, will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the car-
tridge with the notches in
the slot.
4. Press the cartridge down
until it snaps into place.
Installing Cartridges
➤ Removing Cartridges
Warning: When you remove a
cartridge to install another, informa-
tion that you entered in the
removed cartridge will be erased.
Selecting Books
Once you have installed a cartridge in
your BOOKMAN, you must 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.
➤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
Thered,green,yellow,andbluekeyson
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
Whenthebuilt-inbookisselected,the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car-
tridgebookisselected,thecolorkeys
function as labelled on that cartridge.
Remember,thecolorkeysforBOOK-
MAN books in cartridges function as
labelled on their cartridges, not as on
the keyboard.
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AC adaptor jack:YourBOOKMAN
may be equipped with a standard 3.5
mm jack for use with a 9-volt, 200-300
milliamp AC/DC adaptor.
This symbol indicates that the inner
core of the plug of an AC adaptor is
negative and that the outer part of the
plug is positive. If your AC/DC adap-
tor does not have this symbol, con-
firmitscompatibilityatitsplaceorpur-
chase.
Headphone jack:YourBOOKMAN
may also have a 3.5 mm stereo head-
phone jack for use with a standard im-
pedance 8 Ohm headset.
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Headphone
jack
AC adaptor
jack
Optional Features

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➤ Help is Always at Hand
Youcanviewahelpmessageatvirtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Pressthedirectionkeystoreadit. To
exit help, press
BACK
or
HELP
.
If you want to read an overview of
this product and the key func-
tions, highlight
Tutorial on the
Other menu and then press
ENTER
.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow
keys you can press to move
around menus or view more text.
Changing Settings
You can adjust the font size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast. Font size
changes the number of lines of text
that appear on screen. The shutoff
timeishowlongBOOKMANstayson
if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press MENU .
3. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
4. Highlight Set Font, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
5. Press ENTER .
6. Highlight a setting.
Or press or if you selected
Set Contrast .
To exit without changing settings,
press
BACK
.
7. Press ENTER to select it.
Beforeyoustartusingthisbook,youcan
view a demonstration of what it can do.
Once you have installed and selected
thecartridge,press MENU andthenthe
arrowkeystohighlight
ViewDemo on
the Setup menu. Then press ENTER to
view the demonstration.
Ifyouwanttostopthedemonstration,
press
CLEAR
.
Viewing a Demonstration

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Finding Definitions
It’s easy to look up a word in the dic-
tionary. Simply type it at the Entry
screen and press ENTER . Try this ex-
ample.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., knowl-
edge).
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
3. Press ENTER .
This is a dictionary entry.
4. Press or SPACE to read.
5. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to
browse the next dictionary
entry.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Search for a Word lets you find all of
thedefinitionsinwhichaspecificword
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. Press or SPACE to read.
7. Hold ✩and press
DN
to view
the next definition with your
word in it.
To see the previous one, hold ✩
and press
UP
.
8. Press
CLEAR
when done.
FindingWordsinDefinitions

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Finding Synonyms
WhenyouseeTHESflashonce inthe
upper right of the screen, that word
has a thesaurus entry.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type a word (e.g., splendid).
3. Press
THES
(red).
This is the first thesaurus entry.
4. Press to view synonyms.
5. Hold ✩and press
DN
to view
more thesaurus entries.
To return to the previous thesau-
rus entry, hold ✩and press
UP
.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Correcting Misspellings
If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It
will be corrected automatically.
1. Type a misspelled word (e.g.,
nolij).
To erase a letter, press BACK .
2. Press ENTER .
3. Press to highlight a
correction, if needed.
4. Press ENTER to view its dictio-
nary entry.
To go back to the correction list,
press BACK .
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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➤ Understanding Thesaurus
Entries
Thesaurus entries consist of
thesaurus meanings and a
synonym list. A thesaurus meaning
is a definition shared by a list of
synonyms.
➤ Two Ways to Back Up
Pressing BACK takes you back to
the previous screen you viewed.
You can continue to back up until
you get to
Enter your word .
Holding ✩and pressing
UP
takes
you to the previous screen of
similar information. For example, if
you were viewing a dictionary
definition, you would go to the
previous definition.
Ifyou areuncertain about howto spell
a word, type a question mark (
? ) in
place of each unknown letter.
To find prefixes, suffixes, and other
parts of words, type an asterisk (
✽ ) in
a word. Each asterisk stands for a se-
ries of letters or spaces.
NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the
beginningofaword,itmaytakeawhile
to find the matching words.
1. Type a word with ?’s or an ✽.
To type an asterisk, hold
CAP
and
press
? ✻
.
2. Press ENTER .
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press ENTER to define it.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Finding Synonyms Finding Spellings