Franklin BOOKMAN BES-840 User manual

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMANisapowerful,portableelectronic
referencewith a built-inbook and aslot in the
backformorebooks.Withthis
SpanishMas-
ter
, you can now translate and define more
than 250,000 words, correct misspellings of
both Spanish and English words, view noun,
adjective,and verb inflections,save words to
aPersonalword list for amoreenjoyable way
to learn, and hear words in both English and
Spanish. To learn how to use other books,
read their User’s Guides.
Installing Batteries ...............................................................3
Installing Book Cards ...........................................................3
Selecting Books ...................................................................4
Using the Color Keys............................................................4
Changing the Language ........................................................5
Viewing a Demonstration .....................................................6
Translating English Words ....................................................6
Translating Spanish Words ...................................................7
Highlighting a Word ..............................................................8
Hearing a Word ....................................................................8
Learning Inflections..............................................................9
Finding a Letter in a Word ....................................................10
Finding a Series of Letters ...................................................10
Correcting Misspellings .......................................................11
Using Your Personal List ......................................................11
Sending a Word Between Books...........................................13
Changing Game Settings ......................................................13
Playing the Games ...............................................................14
Optional Features.................................................................16

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Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears to the Ready screen.
MENU
Shows Additional Functions menu.
INFL (red) Show inflections of a word.
LANG
(green) Switches between English
and Spanish entry languages.
GAMES
(yellow) Shows the games list.
SAY (blue) Says a word
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up, erases letters, or
stops a highlight.
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.
Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between books.
✩
+
DN
Shows the next word or
inflection group.
✩
+
UP
Shows the previous word
or inflection group.
✩
+ LGoes to Personal word list.
✩
+ NTypes an ñ .
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed above
only for the BOOKMAN book de-
scribed in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions,which are labelledon their book
cardsand listed in their User’sGuides.For
more information, read “Using the Color
Keys.” *Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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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 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 book card down until
it snaps into place.
➤ Removing Book Cards
Warning: When you remove a book
card to install another, information that
you entered into the removed book
card will be erased.
Your BOOKMAN model 840 uses four
AAA batteries. Here is how to install or re-
place them.
Warning: When the batteries lose power
or are removed from BOOKMAN, informa-
tion that you entered in its built-in book,
and in an installed cartridge, will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries as shown in
the battery compartment.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Installing Batteries
➤ 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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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
book is selected, the color keys function
as labelled on that book card.
Using the Color Keys
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.
Selecting Books
Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN
books in book cards function as labelled
on their book cards, not as on the key-
board.
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➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this User’s
Guide may differ from what you see on
screen. This does not mean that your
BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

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➤ Typing Numbers
To type numbers, hold
✩
and press a
number key.
➤ Changing the Contrast
Ifyouwant to changethescreen contrast,
repeatedly press or at the blank
ready screen.
Entry Language
The entry language is the language in
which you enter words at ready screens.
This determines which dictionary you will
use, Spanish or English.
1. If not at a menu screen, press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
LANG
to switch between
dictionaries.
▼
Changing the Language
Message Language
When you turn on this product for the first
time, you must choose the message lan-
guage. The message language is the lan-
guage of prompts, help, and other mes-
sages. You can change the message lan-
guage after your initial decision.
Note: The examples in the English half of
this manual use English as the message
language.
1. Press
MENU
if you are not at the
Message Language screen.
2. Press A to select the Message
Language screen.
3. Press B to select English as the
message language; press Ato
select Spanish.
Changing the Language
▼

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Translating English Words
With this Spanish Master , you are able to
translate English words to Spanish simply
by typing English words.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press
LANG
to change the entry
language to English, if needed.
3. Type a word (e.g., cat).
To erase a letter press
BACK
.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press
CLEAR
when finished.
Before you start using this book, you may
want to view a demonstration of what it
can do.
Ifnobookcard is installed, thedemonstration
automatically appears the first time that you
turn on your BOOKMAN. To stop the dem-
onstration, press
CLEAR
. To disable it, press
MENU
and then select Disable Demo .
If a book card is installed in your BOOK-
MAN, select
View Demo from the Addi-
tional Functions menu to view the demon-
stration.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Explanation of Genders
Spanish nouns are different than En-
glish nouns in that they must either be
masculine or feminine. The <m> means
that the word listed (e.g.,
hombre ) is
masculine. Likewise an <f> shows the
word to be feminine.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at virtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
.
Press the direction keys to read it. To
exit help, press
BACK
.
To read a tutorial of how to use the main
functions and keys of this book, select
Tutorial from the Additional Functions
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 view
more text.

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TranslatingSpanishWords
Translating English Words
➤ Understanding Definitions
When you find a definition, you may see
that there are several different mean-
ings for your word. Here is an example.
1. Type man.
2. Press
ENTER
.
This screen shows that “hombre” is
the most common use of the word.
The capitalized words found in brackets
indicate there's another category that
this word could be used with. For ex-
ample, if you are talking about a chess
man, you would use the word “pieza”
instead of “hombre.”
Your
Spanish Master is fully bilingual. Try
translating a Spanish word.
1. Press
LANG
to change the Entry
language from English to
Spanish, if needed.
2. Type a word (e.g., mensaje).
If you need to type an accent, type the
letter (e.g., e ) and press repeatedly
until the accent you want appears. If
you want to type a
ñ, then hold
✩
and
press
N .
3. Press
ENTER
.
In addition to "mensaje," the
Spanish
Master
translates words with similar
meanings such as “verse.” To view
more, press .
4. Press
CLEAR
when done.

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Highlighting a Word
You can look up most words by highlighting
them within dictionary definitions. You can
then find their definitions, translations, and
synonyms. Note: By searching for a high-
lighted word, the entry language changes to
the language of the word for which you
searched.
1. At any text, press
ENTER
to start
the highlight.
You can turn the highlight off by press-
ing
BACK
.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight
a word.
3. Do one of the following:
To... Press...
define the word
ENTER
view inflections
INFL
hear a word pronounced
SAY
You can hear a word pronounced at the
Ready screen, in text, or in a list. Note:
You can only hear words if you have a
speaking BOOKMAN unit.
Hearing Words at the Ready screen
1. Type a word at the Ready screen.
2. Press
SAY
.
Hearing Words in Text
1. Go to a definition.
2. Press
SAY
.
The headword is pronounced.
3. Press
ENTER
to start the highlight.
4. Use the arrow keys to highlight a
word.
5. Press
SAY
.
The highlighted word is pronounced.
Hearing Words in a List
1. Go to your User’s or Path list.
2. Press or to highlight a
word on the list.
3. Press
SAY
to hear the word.
Hearing a Word
▼
▼
▼

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Learning Inflections
Inflections show changes in a word’s
meaning or function. This dictionary in-
cludes extensive inflections of nouns,
verbs, modifiers, and other words.
1. Press
LANG
to switch to the
Spanish ready screen.
2. Type a Spanish word (e.g., beber).
3. Press
INFL
.
These are the principal forms of the
verb
beber .
4. Use the direction keys to read.
5. Press
INFL
or hold
✩
and press
DN
repeatedly to view more
inflections.
If the word is a noun, an adjective, or
another modifier, then there won’t be
any other inflections.
6. Press
CLEAR
when done.
Learning Inflections
➤ Getting Grammar Guidance
When viewing inflections, you can press
HELP
toviewdetaileddescriptionsofhow
to use inflections, with usage examples.
➤ Viewing English Inflections
Ifyou areunfamiliar with inflections, it may
be helpful to look at some inflected forms
of English verbs. Switch the entry lan-
guageback to English, type
be ,and press
INFL
to see the different forms of the
English verb “to be.” This will give you a
good idea of each inflection form.
➤ Verb Inflection Forms
Your Spanish Master has the following
verb forms: present indicative, imper-
fect indicative, preterite, future, condi-
tional, present subjunctive, imperfect
subjunctive 1, imperfect subjunctive 2,
perfect indicative, pluperfect indicative,
preterite anterior, future perfect, condi-
tional perfect, perfect subjunctive, plu-
perfect subjunctive, and imperative.

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If you are uncertain how to spell a word,
type a question mark in place of each un-
known letter. You can use more than one
question mark per word, however, you will
get a longer list of matches.
1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,
persona?e).
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press
ENTER
to see the word’s
translation.
Finding a Letter in a Word
➤ Deeper Correction
Ifyouselect
Deepercorrection fromacor-
rectionlist,youwillgetalongerlistofmore
detailed corrections than the previous list.
Finding a Series of Letters
To find words that begin with the same let-
ters, type an asterisk after the letters. An
asterisk stands for a series of letters.
1. Type a word ending with an ✻
(e.g., manz
✻ ).
To type an asterisk, hold
CAP
and
press
? ✽
.
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Highlight a match.
4. Press
ENTER
to see the Spanish
translation.
5. Press
CLEAR
when done.