User manual FRANKLIN ENC-2046

® BOOKMAN ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD ® Concise Columbia Encyclopedia USER'S GUIDE ENC-2046 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. 20 Contents Introduction ............................................................................. 2 Key Guide ................................................................................ 2 Installing a Book Card ............................................................. 4 Selecting a Book ..................................................................... 4 Using the Color Keys ............................................................... 5 Changing the Settings ............................................................. 5 Viewing a Demonstration ........................................................ 6 Finding Encyclopedia Articles ................................................. 6 Searching for Words ................................................................ 7 Highlighting Search Words ...................................................... 9 Using Cross-References ........................................................ 10 Locating Articles ................................................................... 10 by Categories ........................................................................ 10 Using Categories ................................................................... 12 with Searches ....................................................................... 12 Using Bookmarks .................................................................. 12 Sending a Word Between Books ............................................ 13 Resetting Your BOOKMAN .................................................... 14 Book Card Care ..................................................................... 14 Specifications ........................................................................ 15 Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ................................................. 15 Index ...................................................................................... 16 1 Introduction Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®! With your new ENC-2046 you can carry and read the Concise Columbia Encyclopedia anywhere. You can also search for words, locate encyclopedia articles by category, combine searches and categories, and even add your own bookmarks to quickly find the articles you read most often. Read this User's Guide to learn how. Key Guide Color Keys (red) Expands a word search. (green) Adds or removes a bookmark, or selects a group of subfilters. (yellow) Displays the Locate menu. (blue) Displays a list of bookmarks, adds and removes bookmarks MORE MARK LOC LIST ® 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 malfunctioning. 2 ® Understanding the Color Keys The color 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 color key functions, which are labeled on their keyboards or book cards. To learn more, read "Using the Color Keys." Key Guide Other Keys Erases a letter, backs up, or turns off the highlight in an article. Shifts the keys to type capitals or punctuation. Exits the book you are reading. Clears your entries. Enters search words, selects a menu item, or starts a highlight. Displays help messages. Displays the main menus. Turns BOOKMAN on or off. At an article, displays the Outline location. At a menu, displays a full menu item. Shifted, types an T to stand for a series of letters. Types a space, or pages down. Direction Keys Moves in the indicated direction, or moves the cursor or highlight. Pages down or up. Key Combinations* 6 6 6 BACK BACK CAP DN UP CARD CLEAR ENTER + + + UP ENTER HELP MENU ON/OFF ?V DN or 6 + Q - P CAP + or SPACE CAP + Goes to the main menu from a submenu. Highlights cross-references or bookmarks in articles. Goes to the next or previous article or word search match. Types numbers. Goes to the bottom or top of menus. In entries with multiple sections, goes to the next or previous section. In an article, goes to the top of an article. * Hold the first key while pressing the other key. 3 Installing a Book Card Warning: Never install or remove a book card while your BOOKMAN is turned on. If you do, information that you've entered in the 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. 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 . These are sample books. 3. Press or to highlight the book you want to use. 4. Press ENTER to select it. 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 will be erased. 4 ® 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. ® Copyright Information To see copyright information about this encyclopedia, highlight Copyright on the Setup menu and press ENTER . Using the Color 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 color keys function as labeled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have selected a book card, the color keys function as labeled on that card. ® 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. Screen contrast refers to how light or dark the screen is. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Use or to highlight the Setup menu. 3. Press to highlight Set Type Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast. Remember, when you've selected a book card, the color keys function as labeled on that card, not as on the keyboard. The slanted arrow indicates a submenu. 4. Press ENTER . 5. Press or to highlight a setting. If you select Set Contrast, press or repeatedly to make the screen darker or lighter. To leave the settings unchanged, press BACK . 6. Press ENTER to select it. 5 Viewing a Demonstration Finding Encyclopedia Articles Before you start using your new book card, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do. 1. Press MENU , if needed. 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 at any time, press CLEAR . The Articles menu lists all the articles in this encyclopedia alphabetically by title. Finding an article is as easy as typing the name of its title. 1. Press CLEAR . The Articles menu is highlighted. 2. Start typing an article title. For example, type zebra. ® Help is Always at Hand You can view a help message at virtually any time by pressing HELP . Press or DN to read the help. Press BACK to exit the message. To read about how to use the keys, select Tutorial from the Setup menu. 6 You don't need to type capitals. To undo a letter, press BACK . To display a full menu title, press ? V . You can also find article titles by using the Direction keys at the Article menu. 3. When the title is highlighted, press ENTER to see its article. Finding Encyclopedia Articles 4. Press , DN , or SPACE to scroll down to read the text. 5. Hold 6 and press DN to view the next encyclopedia article. Hold 6 and press UP to view the previous encyclopedia article. 6. Press BACK to go back to the Articles menu. 7. Press CLEAR when finished. Searching for Words You can search for words occurring in articles and their titles. Each occurence that you find is called a match. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Press LOC (the yellow key). 3. Press ENTER to select Go to Word Search. 4. Type up to five words. For example, type russian czars. ® What Article Are You Reading? When you're reading an encyclopedia article, you can view its title, or Outline location, by pressing ? V . You don't need to type capitals, but if you want to, hold 6 and press a letter key. To erase a letter, press BACK . To type a space, press SPACE . 5. Press ENTER to search. Press BACK to go back to the article. 7 Searching for Words 6. Highlight a title and then press ENTER to view its article. 7. To go to the beginning of the article, hold CAP and press . Searching for Words ® Understanding Searches When you search for words, the encyclopedia 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 articles, the encyclopedia then searches for synonyms and related words. Searches of more than one word find matches regardless of the order or proximity of the words. For example, if you search for space travel, you will find matches that have the words travel and space in the text of their articles. ® Expanding Your Searches To find more matches, press MORE (the red key) up to three times after entering your word search. When you press MORE (red), your word search expands to include matches in articles or synonyms and related words, if they weren't already found. 8 The matches are boxed. You may have to scroll down to see them. 8. Hold 6 and press DN repeatedly to view the next matches. 9. Press CLEAR to clear your search. ® 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 search for it. ® Finding Incomplete Words If you're not sure which form of a word to search for, type an asterisk in place of letters in the word (e.g., psychT ). (To type an asterisk, hold CAP and press ?V .) Then press ENTER . Next, highlight a complete word and press ENTER to search for it. Highlighting Search Words You can also search for words by highlighting them in articles. Then you can find their matches in other articles. Try this example. 1. Press CLEAR . 2. Highlight Irrawaddy and then press ENTER . To learn how, read "Finding Articles." Highlighting Search Words 5. Press ENTER to search for it. 3. Press ENTER again to start the highlight. 6. To search for more articles, press MORE (red). 7. Highlight an article and press ENTER to select it. 8. Hold 6 and press DN repeatedly to view the next matches. To view a previous match, hold 6 and press . 9. Press CLEAR when finished. UP ® Moving around your encyclopedia When the text of an encyclopedia article is on screen, you can easily use the Direction keys to scan and read the surrounding text. To... Press... scroll down or up or DN or page down or up UP SPACE page down 6 + DN go to the next or previous article or UP 9 You can turn off the highlight by pressing BACK . 4. Use the arrow keys to highlight a word. For example, highlight Asia. Using Cross-References Cross-references appear in articles as words in all capital letters. Each crossreference is the title of another encyclopedia article. Try this example. 1. On the Articles menu, highlight thunder. To learn how, read "Finding Articles." 2. Press ENTER . 3. Hold 6 and press ENTER to highlight a cross-reference. Locating Articles by Categories You can search for encyclopedia articles by category. The categories are Article Type (persons, places, and things), Location, Subject , and Time Period. You can use filters and subfilters, which limit the scope of a search, to locate articles, as shown in the example below. 1. Press LOC (yellow). The Locate menu is highlighted. 2. Press to highlight Article Type and then press ENTER to select it. 3. Press ENTER to select Persons. Or press ENTER and use the direction keys to highlight a cross-reference. To turn off the highlight, press BACK . 4. Press ENTER to go to the crossreferenced article. 5. Press BACK to go back to the original article. 6. Press CLEAR when finished. ® Cross-references in Small Type Cross-references are noted by an ) when you are XREF marker ( using the small type size. 10 A check marks the selected filter. You can remove the check mark by pressing ENTER again. 4. Press LOC (yellow) or BACK to go to the Locate menu. 5. Highlight Location and then press ENTER to select it. The slanted arrow indicates subfilters. Locating Articles by Categories 6. Select Sub-Saharan Africa. Locating Articles by Categories ® MARKing Filters Many filters have subfilters, indicated by a slanted arrow. For example, the Location filter under the Article Type category has 10 subfilters. To select all its subfilters at once, highlight a filter and then press MARK (the green key). To deselect all its subfilters, press MARK (green) again. Note: You cannot MARK an entire category. ® Understanding Filters 7. Press LOC (yellow) or 8. Select Subject. 9. Select Social Sciences. 10. Select Politics. BACK . 11. Press to view the matches. 12. Highlight a title (e.g., Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla). Type the title or use the Direction keys to scroll down to it. 13. Press ENTER to view its article. 14. Press CLEAR to clear the filters or select Clear All Filters from the Locate menu. When you select more than one filter from a category, your selections are related by or. For example, if you select Persons and Places from the Article Type category, all the articles about persons or places will be found. However, when you select filters from more than one category, your selections are related by and. For example, if you select Persons from the Article Type category and 1980's from the Time Period category, only articles about persons and the 1980's will be found. 11 Using Categories with Searches To fine-tune your searches, you can select filters after entering search words. Or you can select filters and then search for words. Try this example. 1. Select Go To Word Search from the Locate menu. To learn how, read "Searching for Words." 2. Type war and then press ENTER . Using Bookmarks Adding a Bookmark You can personalize your encyclopedia by adding bookmarks to articles. Then you can use your bookmarks for quick shows the placereference. The ment of the bookmark. Note: You can add multiple bookmarks in a single article. 1. Select an encyclopedia article. 2. Press MARK (green) to place a bookmark. 3. Use the arrow keys to highlight the Locate menu and select Location. 4. Press ENTER to select Americas. 5. Select Latin America. 6. Press to view the matches. You can also press key) and then press bookmark. LIST ENTER (the blue to add a These articles are about wars and Latin America. 7. Select an article to view. 8. Press CLEAR when finished. 12 Using Bookmarks Sending a Word Between Books You can look up words from this book in certain other BOOKMAN books, and vice versa. To send or receive a word to or from another book, you must have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN that is able to send or receive words, too. To learn if a book card can send or receive words, read its User's Guide. 1. Highlight a word in the text of an article. Finding and Viewing a Bookmark Once you've added bookmarks, it's easy to find or remove them. 1. Press 2. Press CLEAR LIST . (blue). This is a sample bookmark list. Bookmarks appear in alphabetical order. 3. Use to highlight a bookmark. 4. Press ENTER to view the article in which the bookmark is placed. Removing a Bookmark 1. Find a bookmark in an article. To learn how, read "Finding and Viewing a Bookmark." To highlight a word in text, press ENTER and then press the arrow keys. 2. Hold 6 and press CARD . 3. Highlight the other book. 2. Press MARK (green) to remove a bookmark. Or press LIST (blue) and then press ENTER to remove the last bookmark you placed. 13 4. Press ENTER . The word that you highlighted appears in the other book. 5. If needed, press ENTER to look up the word. Resetting Your BOOKMAN If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to respond, or if its screen performs erratically, first press CLEAR and then press ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow the steps below. Warning: Pressing the reset button with more than very light pressure may permanently disable your BOOKMAN. In addition, resetting BOOKMAN erases settings and information entered into its built-in book and in any installed book card. 1. Hold CLEAR and press ON/OFF . If nothing happens, try Step 2. 2. Use a paper clip to gently press reset button on BOOKMAN. The reset button is recessed in a pinsized hole on the back of the BOOKMAN. Look for it on the battery cover or near the book card slot. This unit may change operating modes due to Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key, ON/OFF , or by removing/replacing batteries. 14 Book Card Care · Do not touch the metal contacts on the book cards. Caution: Touching these electrical contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase information entered in a book card or built-in book. · Do not put excessive pressure on the book cards. LBS. · Do not expose the book cards to heat, cold, or liquids. Specifications Model: ENC-2046 The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia · size: 5.9 x 4.2 x 0.6 cm · weight: 0.4 oz © 2000 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Burlington, NJ 08016-4907 U.S. All rights reserved. © 1994 Columbia University Press. This work is based on The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia 3rd Edition © 1994. By permission of Columbia University PressTM. FCC Notice: Complies with the limits for a Class B computing device pursuant to Subpart B of part 15 of FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. U.S. Patents 4,490,811; 5,153,831; 5,113,340; 5,321,609; 4,830,618; 5,218,536; 5,396,606. Deutsch Patents M 9409743.7 and M 9409744.5 European Patent 0 136 379. Patents Pending ISBN 1-56712-297-3 Limited Warranty (U.S. only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your BOOKMAN PRODUCT, FRANKLIN will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which you made your purchase or Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., One Franklin Plaza, Burlington, New Jersey 08016-4907, within one year of purchase. Alternatively, FRANKLIN may, at its option, refund your purchase price. Data contained in the BOOKMAN PRODUCT may be provided under license to FRANKLIN. FRANKLIN makes no warranty with respect to the accuracy of data in the BOOKMAN PRODUCT. No warranty is made that the BOOKMAN PRODUCT will run uninterrupted or error free. You assume all risk of any damage or loss from your use of the BOOKMAN PRODUCT. This warranty does not apply if, in the sole discretion of FRANKLIN, the BOOKMAN PRODUCT has been tampered with, damaged by accident, abused, misused, or misapplication, or as a result of service or modification by any party, including any dealer, other than FRANKLIN. This warranty applies only to products manufactured by or for FRANKLIN. Batteries, corrosion, or battery contacts and any damage caused by batteries are not covered by this warranty. NO FRANKLIN DEALER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL WARRANTY IN THIS REGARD OR TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATION OR EXTENSION OF THIS EXPRESS WARRANTY. THE FOREGOING WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, WRITTEN OR ORAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY SHALL BE FRANKLIN'S OBLIGATION TO REPLACE OR REFUND AS SET FORTH ABOVE IN THIS WARRANTY. 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This license and warranty is governed by the laws of the United States and the State of New Jersey. 15 Index ?* key 6, 7 Articles finding 6, 7 viewing location 7 Articles menu 6 Asterisk (for finding words) 8 Auto-resume feature 4 Blue (LIST) key 2, 12 BOOKMAN resetting 14 specifications 15 Bookmarks adding 12 using 12 CAP key 8 CARD key 4, 13 Changing font size 5 shutoff time 5 Changing the screen contrast 5 Clear All Filters 11 Color keys understanding 2 using 5 Copyright 4 Correcting spellings 8 Cross-references Finding 10 using 10 Direction keys 3 FCC Notice 15 Filters deselecting 10 MARKing 11 selecting 10 understanding 11 Finding encyclopedia articles by title 6, 7 incomplete words 8 words 7 Finding Outline location 7 Font size 5 Green (MARK) key 2, 12 HELP key 6 Help messages 6 Limited Warranty 15 LIST (blue) key 2 LOC (yellow) key 2, 10, 11 Locate menu 10, 12 MARK (green) key 2, 11, 12 Marking filters 11 Misspellings, correcting 8 MORE (red) key 2, 8 Numbers, typing 3 Outline location 7 Red (MORE) key 2, 8 Screen contrast 5 Selecting books 4 Set Contrast 5 Set Shutoff 5 16 Index Set Type Size 5 Setup menu 5 Shutoff time 5 Specifications 15 STAR key, with CARD 13 Viewing article locations 7 help messages 6 Word searches correcting misspellings 8 entering 7 expanding 8 highlight words in articles 9 understanding 8 viewing 7 XREFs, using 10 Yellow (LOC) key 2 FRB-28046-00 P/N 7201201 17 Rev A. 18 19 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. 20