BOOKMAN EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK Macquarie Dictionary USER'S GUIDE DMM-440 License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING ANY BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK 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 ELECTRONIC BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK means the software product, hardware, and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK on a single FRANKLIN BOOKMAN at a time. You may not make any copies of the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK or of the preprogrammed data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further, you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK. You may not export or reexport, directly or indirectly, the BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK contains Franklin's confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated. This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license. 1 Contents Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®! With your Macquarie Dictionary, you can find over 95,000 words and 500,000 synonyms, antonyms, and ClassmatesTM. You can also find phrases, correct misspellings, save words to your personal list, and play four fun words games. Read this User's Guide to learn how. Installing Batteries and Installing a Book Card ................ 4 Selecting a Book and Using the Colour Keys .................. 5 Changing the Settings and Viewing a Demonstration ........ 6 Finding Dictionary Entries ............................................... 7 Using the Word List ......................................................... 8 Highlighting Words .......................................................... 8 Finding Thesaurus Entries ............................................... 9 Finding Phrases ............................................................... 9 Finding Inflections ......................................................... 10 Finding Confusables® ..................................................... 10 Finding Parts of Words .................................................. 11 Saving Words for Study ................................................. 11 Changing Games Settings ............................................. 12 Playing the Games ......................................................... 13 Sending a Word Between Books .................................... 14 Resetting Your BOOKMAN ............................................ 15 Specifications ................................................................ 15 2 Key Guide Colour Keys INFL (red) Displays the inflected forms, BACK THES PHRASE LIST if any, of the selected word. Displays synonyms, antonyms, and ClassmatesTM, if any, of the selected word. (yellow) Displays phrases, if any, that contain the selected word. (blue) Displays the personal list menu. (green) CAP CARD CLEAR ENTER HELP MENU DN UP or Direction Keys Moves in the indicated direction. Pages down or up. Accents a typed letter. C ON/OFF ? Key Combinations* Displays Confusables®, if any, of the selected word. +M Displays the games menu. + DN Goes to the next or or UP previous entry or match. + Types a hyphen. + Q - P Types numbers. CAP + Goes to the bottom or top of an entry or menu. or + * Hold the first key while pressing the other key. SPACE Other Keys Backs up a step, erases a letter, or turns off the highlight. Shifts the keys to type capitals or punctuation. Exits the book you are reading. Clears all of your entries. Enters a search, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight. Displays help messages. Displays the main menus. Turns BOOKMAN on or off. Types a ? to stand for an unknown letter; with CAP , types an to stand for a series of letters. At a dictionary entry, displays the headword. At a menu, displays a full menu title. Types a space or pages down. Understanding the Colour Keys The colour 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 colour key functions, which are labelled on their keyboards or book cards. To learn more, read "Using the Colour Keys." 3 Installing Batteries Note: If battery insulation tape is installed, carefully remove it by pulling the battery installation tape out of the battery compartment. BOOKMAN 440 models use two CR2032 3-volt batteries. Here is how to install or replace the batteries. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from your BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed book card, will be erased. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN over. 2. Slide off its battery cover in the direction of the triangle. 3. Install the batteries with their plus signs facing you. 4. Replace the battery cover. Installing a Book Card Warning: Never install or remove a book card while your BOOKMAN is turned on. If you do, information that you have entered in the built-in book, as well as in any other installed book cards, may 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. Removing Book Cards Warning: When you remove a book card to install another, information that you entered in the removed book card may be erased. 4 Follow the Arrows The flashing arrows on the right of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to move around the screen. Selecting a Book Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use. 1. Turn your BOOKMAN on. 2. Press CARD . Using the Colour Keys The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on the top row of your BOOKMAN change their functions according to which book you have selected. If you have selected the built-in book, the colour keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have selected a book card, the colour keys function as labelled on that 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 your BOOKMAN at any time. When you turn your BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed reappears. 5 Remember, when you have selected a book card, the colour keys function as labelled on that card, not as on the keyboard. Changing the Settings You can adjust the type size, shutoff time, and screen contrast of this book. The shutoff time is how long your BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. The screen contrast is how light or dark the screen display appears. 1. Press MENU . to highlight the 2. Use or Setup menu. 3. Press to highlight Set Type Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast. Viewing a Demonstration Before you start using your new BOOKMAN, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do. When no book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, the demonstration will automatically appear after you turn the unit on. To stop the demonstration, press CLEAR . To disable it, press MENU , and use the arrow keys to highlight the Setup menu. Highlight Disable Demo and press ENTER . To re-enable it, select Enable Demo from the Setup menu. When a book card is installed in your BOOKMAN, press MENU . Use the arrow keys to highlight the Setup menu and then select View Demo. 4. Press ENTER . 5. Use or to change the setting. To leave the settings unchanged, press BACK . 6. Press ENTER to select it. 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. 6 Help is Always at Hand You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP . Press , SPACE , or DN to read the help. Press BACK to exit the message. To read about how to use this dictionary and what the keys do, select Tutorial from the Topics menu. Finding Dictionary Entries You can find a dictionary entry simply by typing one or more words at the Enter a word screen and then pressing ENTER . 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Type a word (e.g., astute). Finding Dictionary Entries Correcting Misspellings If you misspell a word, do not worry. The dictionary automatically gives you a list of corrections. Simply use the arrow keys to highlight the correction you want and press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. For example, enter nolij at the Enter a word screen. Highlight the correction you want and press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. To go back to the correction list, press BACK . Understanding Dictionary Entries The bold word at the top of the dictionary entry is called the headword. The headword is followed by its part of speech and its definition(s). After the definition(s), you may see other forms of the word. Choosing Multiple Forms Some words in this dictionary have more than one form. When the word you are looking up has multiple forms, the different forms automatically appear in a list. Highlight the form you want and press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. 7 To erase a letter, press BACK . To accent a typed letter, first type the letter to be accented and then use or to find the desired accent mark. 3. Press ENTER . This is a sample dictionary entry. 4. Press , SPACE , or DN to see more. 5. To see the dictionary entries of the next or previous word listed in this dictionary, hold and press DN or UP . 6. Press CLEAR when finished. Using the Word List You can also find dictionary entries by searching for words on the Entries menu. 1. Press MENU Highlighting Words Another way to look up a word is to highlight it in text. Then you can find that word's dictionary entry, thesaurus entry, inflections, Confusables, or save it in your personal list. 1. At any text, press ENTER to start the highlight. To turn off the highlight, press BACK . 2. Use the arrow keys to move the highlight. . To see a full menu title, press ? 2. Start typing a word until it is highlighted. For example, type law. You can also highlight words by usor . ing To erase a letter, press BACK . 3. Do one of the following: To... Press... ENTER find a dictionary entry THES find a thesaurus entry INFL find inflected forms find phrases PHRASE LIST add word to your list +C find Confusables 4. To go back, press BACK . 8 3. Do one of the following: To... Press... ENTER find a dictionary entry THES find a thesaurus entry find inflected forms INFL PHRASE find phrases LIST add word to your list +C find Confusables 4. To go back, press BACK . Finding Thesaurus Entries When you see THES flash once in the upper right of the screen, the selected word has a thesaurus entry. A thesaurus entry can contain a part of speech, a brief meaning, and a list of available synonyms, antonyms, synonymous phrases, and ClassmatesTM (words related by subject). 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Type a word. For example, type dry. If you want, press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. 3. Press THES (the green key). Finding Phrases You can find phrases containing specific words. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Type a word. For example, type house. If you want, press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. 3. Press PHRASE (the yellow key). 4. Use to highlight a phrase and then press ENTER . For example, select keep house. 4. Use the Direction keys to read. 5. Hold and press DN to see the next thesaurus entry, if any. To see a previous thesaurus entry, hold and press UP . 6. Press BACK to go back. 7. Press CLEAR when finished. 9 5. Hold and press DN to see the next phrase, if any. To see a previous phrase, hold and press UP . 6. Press BACK to go back to the list of phrases. 7. Press CLEAR when finished. Finding Inflections Inflections are the changes in a word's form such as case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice. Verbs have more inflections than other parts of speech. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Type a word. For example, type mean. If you want, press ENTER to see its dictionary entry. 3. Press INFL (the red key). Finding Confusables® Confusables are words that are often confused or that sound alike but are spelled differently. Rain, reign, and rein are examples of Confusables. Not every word will have Confusables. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Type a word. For example, type air. If y ...