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Electronic Publishers
Cartridge
Dictionary
& Thesaurus
Electronic Publishers
User’s Guide
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060
MWS-2018
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License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH YOU PURCHASED THE BOOKMAN CAR- TRIDGE AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN CARTRIDGE means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. L
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Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! and 41,000 thesaurus entries with BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec- 496,000 synonyms. You can also cor- tronic reference with a built-in book and rect misspellings, save words to your a slot in the back for more books. With User list, and play three fun, educational this Dictionary & Thesaurus you can find word games. To learn how to use other and hear over 83,000 dictionary entries, books, read their User’s Guides. Installing Cartridges and Selectin
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Key Guide Other Keys Function Keys BACK Backs up, erases letters, or CLEAR Clears to Enter your word. stops a highlight. MENU Shows the main menus. CAP Shifts keys to type punctua- THES (red) Shows a thesaurus entry. tion. ENTER Enters a search, selects a SAY (green) Says a word. menu item, or starts a highlight. GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list. HELP Shows help messages. LIST (blue) Shows the User list menu. Q Types a ? to stand for an ? unknown letter in a word; CARD Exits the selected book
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Installing Cartridges Selecting Books Warning: Never install or remove a Once you have installed a cartridge in cartridge when BOOKMAN is on. If your BOOKMAN, you must select you do, information that you entered which book you want to use. in its built-in book, and in an installed 1. Turn BOOKMAN on. cartridge, will be erased. CARD 2. Press . 1. Turn BOOKMAN off. 2. Turn BOOKMAN over. 3. Align the tabs on the car- tridge with the notches in These are sample books. the slot. 3. Press or to high
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Using the Color Keys Optional Features AC adaptor The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on jack 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 Headphone jack BOOKMAN keyboard. When a car- tridge book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that cartridge. AC adaptor jack: Your BOOKMAN may be equipped with a standard 3.5 mm jack for use with a 9-volt, 200-300 milliamp AC/DC adapto
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Changing Settings Viewing a Demonstration You can adjust the font size, shutoff Before you start using this book, you can time, and screen contrast. Font size view a demonstration of what it can do. changes the number of lines of text Once you have installed and selected that appear on screen. The shutoff the cartridge, press MENU and then the time is how long BOOKMAN stays on arrow keys to highlight View Demo on if you forget to turn it off. the Setup menu. Then press ENTER to view the demonstr
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Finding Definitions Finding Words in Definitions It’s easy to look up a word in the dic- Search for a Word lets you find all of tionary. Simply type it at the Entry the definitions in which a specific word ENTER appears. screen and press . Try this ex- ample. CLEAR 1. Press . CLEAR 1. Press . MENU 2. Press . 2. Type a word (e.g., knowl- 3. Select Search for a word from edge). the Other menu. BACK To erase a letter, press . 4. Type a word (e.g., legal). 5. Press ENTER . ENTER 3. Press . SPACE 6.
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Correcting Misspellings Finding Synonyms If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It When you see THES flash once in the will be corrected automatically. upper right of the screen, that word has a thesaurus entry. 1. Type a misspelled word (e.g., CLEAR nolij). 1. Press . 2. Type a word (e.g., splendid). THES 3. Press (red). BACK To erase a letter, press . ENTER 2. Press . This is the first thesaurus entry. 4. Press to view synonyms. 3. Press to highlight a correction, if needed. ENTER 4. Press
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Finding Synonyms Finding Spellings Understanding Thesaurus If you are uncertain about how to spell Entries a word, type a question mark (?) in place of each unknown letter. Thesaurus entries consist of thesaurus meanings and a To find prefixes, suffixes, and other synonym list. A thesaurus meaning parts of words, type an asterisk (] ) in is a definition shared by a list of a word. Each asterisk stands for a se- synonyms. ries of letters or spaces. NOTE: If you type an asterisk at the Two
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™ Highlighting Words Finding Confusables Another way to look up words is by Confusables are words that sound highlighting them in dictionary defini- alike, but are spelled differently. If a tions, thesaurus entries, or word lists. word has Confusables, a question Then you can find their definitions, the- mark will flash once in the upper right saurus entries, Confusables, or add of the screen. them to your User list. 1. Type a word (e.g., rein). ENTER 1. At any text, press to 2. Press ENTER . s
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Hearing Words Reviewing Words You can hear a word pronounced at The Path list lets you review the last the Entry screen, in text, or in a list. 15 words you looked up. Your Path NOTE: You can only hear words if you list is automatically saved between have a speaking BOOKMAN unit. sessions until the batteries lose power. t At the Entry screen 1. Select View path list from the 1. Type a word at the Entry screen. Other menu. SAY 2. Press (green). In Text t 1. Go to a definition. This is a
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Using the User List Using the User List You can create a User list of up to 40 Adding Highlighted Words t words. You can even add words to your At any text, you can highlight a word User list that are not in this dictionary. and add it to your User list. Here’s how to add and to view a word. 1. At text, press ENTER to start LIST 1. Press (blue) to view the the highlight. User list menu. 2. Highlight a word. 3. Press LIST (blue). 4. Select Add “your word”. If you haven’t added any words to y
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Using the User List Sending Words This BOOKMAN dictionary can send You can delete one or all the words in your User list. Here’s how. words to and receive words from cer- tain other BOOKMAN books. Deleting One Word t To send a word, you must first install 1. Press LIST (blue). this cartridge in a BOOKMAN, and that 2. Select Delete word. BOOKMAN must also be able to send 3. Highlight a word on the list. or receive words. 4. Press ENTER to delete it. To learn if a BOOKMAN can send or CLEAR 5.
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Changing Game Settings Playing the Games You can change the game settings at Now that you have the games set, let’s any time. Each setting applies to all the play. games. GAMES 1. Press (yellow). Word list lets you pick which words 2. Press or to highlight a you’ll play the games with. If you se- game. lect Type Them in, you’ll need to type 3. Press ENTER to start it. in words after you select a game. Se- lect SAT test words to practice for the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Word length lets you p
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Playing the Games Playing the Games will flash on the screen before each Hangman game. The number of possible ana- grams is shown on the right side of the screen. Type an anagram and then press ENTER . Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’s, one Use the arrows to view anagrams CAP you’ve already entered. Hold and letter at a time. The number of wrong [ guesses you can make appears to the press ? to shuffle the letters in the [ CAP selected word. Press to end a right
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LBS. Resetting BOOKMAN Cartridge Care • Do not touch the metal If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to re- contacts on the cartridges. spond, or if its screen performs errati- Caution: Touching these electrical CLEAR cally, first press and then press contacts with statically charged ob- ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow jects, including your fingers, could the steps below to reset it. erase information entered in a car- Warning: Pressing the reset button tridge or built-in book. with more then
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Limited Warranty (US only) Copyrights & Patents FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free Model: MWS-2018 from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, • size: 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 cm FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase • weight: .4 oz. (without batteries) or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., 122 Burrs Ro
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Index ?* key 3, 9, 15 Highlighting words 10 Anagrams game 15 Misspellings, correcting 8 Asterisk key 3, 15 Path list 11 Asterisks 9 Question mark key 9 Auto-resume feature 4 Resetting BOOKMAN 16 Backing up 9 Reviewing words 11 Changing Bookman's settings 6 Searching for words 7 Color keys Shutoff understanding 3 changing 6 using 5 setting 6 Confusables, finding 10 STAR key Correcting misspellings 8 combinations 3 Demonstration 6 with CARD 13 Erasing a letter 7 with DN 7
