Franklin BOOKMAN ENC-640 User manual

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User’s Guide
ENC-640
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Electronic Publishers
CONCISE COLUMBIA
ENCYCLOPEDIA
Electronic Publishers

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOK-
MAN™! With your new ENC-640 you
can carry and read the
Concise Co-
lumbia Encyclopedia
anywhere. You
can also search for words, locate ar-
Installing Batteries ........................................................ 4
Installing Cartridges ...................................................... 4
Selecting Books............................................................. 5
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Changing Settings ......................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 6
Finding Articles ............................................................. 7
Searching for Words...................................................... 8
Highlighting Search Words ............................................ 9
Using Filters .................................................................. 10
Using Filters With Searches .......................................... 12
Using Notes ................................................................... 12
Sending Words Between Books..................................... 13
Resetting BOOKMAN .................................................... 14
Cartridge Care............................................................... 14
Index.............................................................................. 16
ticles by category, combine searches
and categories, and add your own
notes to quickly find the articles you
read most often. Read this User’s
Guide to learn how.

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Function Keys
CLEAR Clear search words and filters.
MENU Display the main menus.
MORE
(red) Expand a word search.
MARK
(green) Place a note in an article,
or select a group of subfilters.
LOC
(yellow) DisplaytheLocatemenu.
LIST
(blue) Display the note list.
CARD Exit the selected book.
ON/OFF Turn BOOKMAN on or off.
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Erase a letter, back up, or turn off
the highlight in an article.
CAP
Shift the keys to type capitals.
ENTER
Enter search words, select
menu items, or start the highlight.
HELP
Display a help message.
?
✻
Display the article location or the
full title (from the menu). Shifted,
type an ✻to stand for letters.
Direction Keys
Scroll through text or menus,
or move the cursor or highlight.
Page down or up.
SPACE
Type a space, or page down.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
BACK
Back up from article subtitles
or from entering a note.
✩
+
CARD
Sendawordbetweenbooks.
✩
+
ENTER
Highlight cross-references
or notes in articles.
✩
+Go to the next or previous
or article or word search match.
✩
+ Go to the last or first menu item,
or or the next or previous table title.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed above only for the book de-
scribed in this User’s Guide.
Other BOOKMAN books have their
own color key functions, which are
labeled on their keyboards or car-
tridges. To learn more, read “Using
the Color Keys.”
* Hold
✩
while pressing the other key.

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Your BOOKMAN model ENC-640
requires four AAA batteries. Here is
how to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
all power or are removed from your
BOOKMAN, information that you en-
tered in its built-in book, and in any
installed cartridge, will be erased.
1. Turn BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries with
their plus signs aligned as
shown on the diagram in the
battery compartment.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Warning: Never install or remove a
cartridge when your BOOKMAN is on.
If you do, information that you’ve en-
tered in the built-in book, and in any in-
stalled cartridge, will be erased
.
1. Turn BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs of the cartridge
with the notches in the slot.
4. Press the cartridge down
until it snaps into place.
Installing CartridgesInstalling Batteries
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This doesn’t
mean that your BOOKMAN is mal-
functioning.
➤ Removing Cartridges
Warning: When you remove a
cartridge to install another, informa-
tion that you entered in the
removed cartridge will be erased.

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Selecting Books Using the Color Keys
T he red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of your BOOKMAN
change functions according to which
book you’ve selected and are using.
If you’ve selected the built-in book,
the color keys function as labeled on
the keyboard. If you’ve selected a
book in a cartridge, the color keys
function as labeled on that cartridge.
Remember, when you’ve selected a
book in a cartridge, the color keys
function as labeled on that cartridge,
not as on the keyboard.
➤Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN
at any time. When you turn your
BOOKMAN on again, the screen
that you last viewed reappears.
Once you have installed a cartridge
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.
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Changing Settings
Youcanadjustthetypesize,shutofftime,
and screen contrast of this book The
shutoff time is how long your BOOK-
MAN stays on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Other menu.
3. Press to highlight Set Type
Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
The arrow indicates a submenu.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Press or to highlight a
setting.
To leave it unchanged, press
BACK
.
6. Press
ENTER
to select it.
When a cartridge isn’t installed , a brief
demonstration automatically appears
when you turn on your BOOKMAN.
To stop the demonstration at any time,
press
CLEAR
.
To disable the demonstration, press
MENU
and then select Disable Demo
from the Other menu.
To re-enable it, select Enable Demo .
To view the demonstration when a
cartridge is installed, select
View
Demo
from the Other menu.
Viewing a Demonstration
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any time by pressing
HELP
. Press or to read
the help. Press
BACK
to exit the
message.
To read about how to use the keys,
select
Tutorial from the Other menu.
➤ Adjusting the Contrast
You can also adjust the screen con-
trast of the ENC-640 by selecting
Go
To Word Search
from the Locate
menu and then pressing or .

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Finding Articles
The Articles menu lists all the articles in
this encyclopedia alphabetically by title.
Here is how to find articles on this menu.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
The Articles menu is highlighted.
2. Start typing an article title
(e.g., zebra).
You don’t need to type capitals.
To undo a letter, press
BACK
.
To display a title, press
?
✻
.
3. When the title is highlighted,
press
ENTER
.
4. Press , , or
SPACE
to
scroll down.
5. Hold
✩
and press to view
the next encyclopedia article.
6. Press
BACK
to go back to the menu.
7. Press
CLEAR
to clear the title.
Finding Articles
➤ Viewing the Next Title
When you’re typing a title at the Ar-
ticles menu, you can highlight the next
title beginning with the same letter(s)
by holding
✩
and pressing .
➤ What Article Are You Reading?
When you’re reading an encyclo-
pedia article, you can view its title,
or article location, by pressing
? *
.
Press
BACK
to return to the article.
➤ Understanding Abbreviations
To learn the meaning of an abbre-
viation used in this encyclopedia,
first press
CLEAR
. Then hold
✩
and press . Then press
ENTER
.
Next, type an abbreviation (e.g.,
Deut. ) and press
ENTER
to view
its meaning. To back up, press
BACK
repeatedly.

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➤ If You Misspell a Word
If you enter a misspelled search
word, a list of corrections appears
automatically. Highlight a correction
and press
ENTER
to view it.
➤ Finding Incomplete Words
If you’re not sure which form of a
word to search for, type an aster-
isk in place of letters in the word
(e.g.,
psych✻ ). (To type an aster-
isk, hold
CAP
and press
? *
).
Then press
ENTER
.
Next, highlight a complete word
and press
ENTER
to search for it.
Searching for Words
Searching for Words
You can search for words occurring
in articles and their titles. Each word
you find is called a match.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Highlight Go To Word Search
on the Locate menu.
3. Press
ENTER
.
4. Type up to five words
(e.g., Russian czars).
You don’t need to type capitals.
To erase a letter, press
BACK
.
To move the cursor, press or .
5. Press
ENTER
to search.
6. Highlight a title and then press
ENTER
to view its article.
7. Hold
✩
and press repeat-
edly to view the next matches.
The matching words are boxed.
You may have to scroll down to
see them.
8. Press
MENU
to go to the menus.
9. Press
CLEAR
to clear your search.

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Searching for Words
➤ Understanding Searches
When you search for words, the en-
cyclopedia searches first for
matches of the words in the titles of
articles. If no matches are found in
titles, it automatically searches for
matches in the articles themselves.
If no exact matches are found in ar-
ticles, then it searches for
synonyms and related words.
Searches of more than one word
find matches regardless of the order
or proximity of the words. For ex-
ample, if you search for
space
travel
, you’ll find travels through
space , etc.
➤ Expanding Your Searches
To findmorematches, press
MORE
up
tothreetimesafter entering your word
search. When you press
MORE
, your
search expands to include
matches in
articles or synonyms and related
words, if they weren’t already found.
Highlighting Search Words
Another way you can search for
words is to highlight them in articles.
Then you can view their matches in
other articles. Try this example.
1. On the Articles menu,
highlight Irrawaddy.
To learn how, read “Finding Articles.”
2. Press
ENTER
.
3. Press
ENTER
again.
Notice the highlight. You can turn
it off by pressing
BACK
.
4. Press the arrow keys to
highlight a word (e.g., Asia).
5. Press
ENTER
to search.
6. Press
ENTER
to select the first
matching article.
7. Hold
✩
and press repeat-
edly to view the next matches.