® 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. 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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 le ...