Franklin BOOKMAN QTS-2040 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
QTS-2040
Bartlett’s
Familiar Quotations

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Contents
With your new Bartlett’s Familiar Quo-
tations
book card, you can look up
more than 20,000 quotations by 2,550
authors. Quick reference is easy be-
cause you can look up quotations by
author, by time period, or by searching
for words in the quotations. And two
challenging games—Cryptomania and
Guess the Author—make learning
quotations fun. Let’s get started!
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
Finding Quotations by Searching for Words ........................5
Finding Quotations by Author ..............................................7
Finding Quotations by Time Period ......................................8
Highlighting Search Words.................................................10
Reading Footnotes and Cross-references ..........................10
Playing Cryptomania ..........................................................11
Playing Guess the Author...................................................12
Changing the Skill Level ....................................................13
Sending Words Between Books .........................................13
Resetting Your BOOKMAN.................................................14
Book Card Care..................................................................14
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ..............................................15
Index...................................................................................16

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Key Guide
Color Keys
AUTH
(red) At a quotation, displays
its author(s). At other screens,
displays the Authors menu.
M ORE
(green) Expands a word search.
GAMES
(yellow) Displays the games.
(blue) No effect in this book.
Function Keys
BACK
Backs up (e.g., erases a typed let-
ter or displays the previous screen).
CARD Exits the selected book.
CLEAR Clears the word search screen.
Function Keys
ENTER
Selects a menu item, starts a
word search, or starts the high-
light in a quotation.
HELP
Displays help messages.
MENU Toggles between the main
menus and a quotation.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
?*
At a quotation, displays its
author(s). In a game, reveals the
answer and ends the round.
✩
+
ENTER
*Highlights a footnote or
cross-reference.
CAP
+
?*
*
In the Cryptomania
game, reveals a letter.
Direction Keys
Scroll line by line.
DN
UP
Scroll screen by screen.
SPACE
Pages down, or types a space.
✩
+
DN
or
UP
*Display the next or pre-
vious quotation.
CAP
+ or *Go to the top or bot-
tom of a menu or quotation.
* To use a key combination, hold the first key
while pressing the other key.
➤ 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 book
cards. To learn more, read “Using
the Color Keys.”

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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 from your BOOKMAN,
information 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, unless you have
removed a book card, the screen
that you last viewed appears.

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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
and then
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to
highlight the Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the
demonstration.
5. To stop the demonstration,
press
CLEAR
.
T he red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of your BOOKMAN
keyboard change their functions ac-
cording to which book you’re using.
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
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➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can see a help message at virtu-
ally any screen by pressing
HELP
.
To scroll down the help, press or
DN
. Press
BACK
to exit it.
Note: You can also read a tutorial
about how to use this book by se-
lecting
Tutorial from the Setup menu.

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Changing the Settings
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust
the type size, automatic shutoff time, and
screen contrast. The automatic shutoff
time is how long your BOOKMAN stays
on if you forget to turn it off.
1. Press
CLEAR
and then
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to highlight
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.
5. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Or press
BACK
to leave the set-
ting unchanged.
➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows that you see on
the right of the screen show which
arrow keys you can press to scroll
through menus or text.
You can find quotations by searching
for virtually any words that occur in
quotations. You can also search for
authors’ names. Searching for words
is sometimes the quickest way to
find the quotation you want.
1. Press
CLEAR
.
2. Type one or more words
(e.g., road traveled).
3. Press
ENTER
to search.
The matching words are boxed.
The pointing hand (☞) indicates
the start of a quotation.
4. Press ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to see
more quotations.
5. Hold
✩
and press
DN
to view
the next matching quotation.
You may need to scroll down to see
Finding Quotations by
Searching for Words

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the matching (i.e., boxed) words. To
view a previous matching quotation,
hold
✩
and press .
6. Press
MENU
to see all of the
matches listed on the menus.
After a search, only items with matches
are displayed on the menus.
7. Use the arrow keys to high-
light an item.
8. Press
ENTER
to select it.
9. When you’re done, press
CLEAR
to clear your search.
➤ Expanding Your Searches
After searching for words, you
can find more matches by press-
ing
M ORE
(the green key) as many
as five times for certain words.
Each time that you press
M ORE
,
the previous matches are dis-
carded and new matches of
synonyms and similar words are
found.
➤ Searching for Common Words
When you search for short, com-
mon words such as
the and to ,
you’ll find only the most famous,
memorable, or important quota-
tions containing those words.
Note: If you expand a multiple-
word search that contains
common words, the common
words may not be included in the
expanded search.
➤ If You Misspell a Search Word
If you enter a misspelled search
word, a list of corrections appears.
Use to highlight a correction
and then press
ENTER
to search.
Finding Quotations by
Searching for Words Finding Quotations by Searching for Words

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5. Press ,
DN
, or
SPACE
to see
more quotations.
6. To go directly to the next or
previous quotation, hold
✩
and press
UP
or
DN
.
7. Press
BACK
to go back to the
Authors menu.
➤ Finding Anonymous Quotations
Quotations whose authors are un-
known are listed on both the
Chronology and Authors menus.
To find them, highlight either menu
and type
ano (for “anonymous”).
Then press
ENTER
.
A list of categories appears. Press
to highlight a category and then
press
ENTER
to see its quotations.
Finding Quotations by Author
If you know the name of the author,
it’s easy to find his or her quotations
using the Authors menu. The Au-
thors menu lists the quoted authors
alphabetically by their last names.
Follow these steps.
1. Press
AUTH
(the red key).
The Authors menu is highlighted.
2. Start typing an author’s last name
(e.g., Tu for Harriet Tubman).
To undo a letter, press
BACK
.
Note: If other authors have the
same last name, type a first name,
too. You don’t have to type a
comma or a space.
3. When the name is high-
lighted, press
ENTER
.
4. Press to see his or her first
quotation.
Finding Quotations
by Author

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The Chronology menu lists quoted au-
thors by the time periods in which they
were born. Here’s how to find quota-
tions using the Chronology menu.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use the arrow keys to high-
light the Chronology menu.
3. Highlight a time period
(e.g., 1700-1799 A.D.)
To highlight a time period, scroll to
it or by typing its first numbers
(e.g.,
17 for 1700-1799 A.D .). To
type a number, hold
✩
and press
a numbered key.
4. When a time period is
highlighted, press
ENTER
.
5. Highlight an author (e.g.,
Samuel Johnson).
Finding Quotations
by Time Period
Finding Quotations by Author
➤ About Quotations in Footnotes
Sometimes when you select a
name from the Authors menu,
you’ll see a screen like this:
Select (Quotations) to go the
main quotations by that author.
Select
Note to see notes on or
quotations by that author found in
the footnotes of quotations by
other authors.
➤ Shakespeare Quotations
William Shakespeare has more
quotations than any other author
in this book. When you select
Shakespeare from the Authors
menu, a list of his plays appears.
Select the play from which you
want a quotation.