For Use with the Franklin Electronic Publishers Digital Book System IC-121 F DIGITAL BOOK HOLY BIBLE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION User's Manual License Agreement READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE DIGITAL BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE DIGITAL 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 DIGITAL BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. DIGITAL BOOK means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the DIGITAL BOOK remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive license to use the DIGITAL BOOK on a single FRANKLIN Digital Book System at a time. You may not make any copies of the DIGITAL BOOK or of the data stored therein, whether in electronic or print format. 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This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license. 1 Contents Getting Started ............................................... 4 Viewing a Demo.............................................. 6 Using the Menus ............................................ 7 Finding Book, Chapter, Verse ....................... 9 Reading the Bible .......................................... 11 Searching For Words .................................... 13 Searching for Phrases .................................. 16 Expanding Searches ..................................... 18 Expanding Search Words ............................ 20 Picking Search Words .................................. 23 Viewing Footnotes ........................................ 25 Using Bookmarks .......................................... 27 Changing Settings ........................................ 29 Sending Words .............................................. 31 Digital Book System® ................................... 33 Specifications ................................................ 36 Warranty ........................................................ 37 Key Guide ...................................................... 38 Index ............................................................... 39 2 Introduction Congratulations! Your new Bible combines the modern language of the New International Version (NIV) with the latest technology from Franklin Electronic Publishers. Using this Bible, you can. . . · read any verse of the Old or New Testament, · scan and read surrounding verses, · search for words or phrases as you would in a concordance, · pick and search for words from any verse, · expand your searches, · view footnotes and word counts, · place up to 30 bookmarks, · change type size and other settings, and · look up Bible words in other digital books. This User's Manual shows you how. You can use it as a tutorial or as a reference. Your First Tip Throughout this User's Manual, you'll see tips about how to get the most from your new Bible. Look for them. 3 Getting Started You must install the Bible digital book before you can use it. WARNING: Never install a digital book when the Digital Book System is on. 1. Turn the Digital Book System off. 2. Install the Bible in a slot on the back. 3. Press ON/OFF . 4. To adjust the contrast, turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book System. If the screen is still blank, check the batteries. Protect Your Digital Books If you install or remove digital books while the Digital Book System is on, information that you entered in any installed digital book may be erased. 4 Getting Started Once the Bible is installed, here is how to select and start using it. 1. Press CARD . to highlight the NIV or 2. Press Bible symbol. 3. Press ENTER . This is the Request Line of the Bible. You can always go to the Request Line by pressing CLEAR . Resuming Where You Left Off When using the Bible, you can turn off the Digital Book System at any time. When you turn the Digital Book System on again, you'll return to the screen that you last saw. 5 Viewing a Demo Before using the Bible, you may want to view a demonstration of what it can do. 1. Press MENU . 2. Press to highlight V i e w D e m o under O t h e r r. 3. Press ENTER . CLEAR 4. To stop the demo, press . Help is at Hand Except while viewing the demo, you can view help messages at any screen by pressing HELP . To scroll up or down, press or . To page down, press DN or SPACE . To go to the start or end of a message, hold and press or . To exit a help message, press BACK . 6 Using the Menus Using the Old and New menus, you can select and view any book or section of the Bible. Try this example. 1. If you're not at the menus, press 2. Press w. to highlight N e w MENU . The flashing arrows show which arrow keys you can press at any screen. 3. Press to highlight R o m a n s s. 4. Press ENTER or SPEC . 5. Press to highlight a section. 7 Using the Menus 6. Press ENTER . 7. Press MENU to return to the menus. A check marks the book that you last read. Tips for Using Menus · To go to the top or bottom of a menu, hold the gold key, , while pressing or . For example, hold and press under the Old menu to highlight Malachi . · To go directly to the first verse of a book, highlight the book under the Old or New menu and then press plus ENTER . · To view the sections of the current book when you're viewing verses, press SPEC . Then you can select and view another section. 8 Finding Book, Chapter, Verse You can find any verse of the Bible by entering a book title, chapter number, and verse number at the Request Line. You should type a space or colon between the chapter and verse numbers. You don't need to type capital letters. 1. At the Request Line, type a book title, chapter number, and verse number. To type numbers, press plus the numbered keys.* To type a space, press SPACE .To type a colon, press SHIFT plus ; : . To erase characters, press BACK . 2. Press ENTER . 3. Press or DN to move down. CLEAR 4. When you're done, press . 9 *If you're using a DBS-2D, simply press the number keys. Finding Book, Chapter, Verse Tips for Finding Verses · Type only a book title to find the first verse in a book. Type a book and chapter number to find the first verse in a chapter. · Type abbreviations rather than full book titles (e.g., ps for Psalms or eph for Ephesians). · Type an Arabic or Roman numeral before books of more than one volume (e.g., 1 samuel or II kings ). · Type words from section titles to find sections (e.g., magi for the Visit of the Magi, Mt. 2:1). Ambiguous Requests Some book titles, such as John and Numbers , are also words in the Bible. When you request one of them without a chapter or verse number, you see a menu like this: To read the book, press ENTER . To search for the word, press and then ENTER . 10 Reading the Bible Once you've found a Bible verse, you can scan and view surrounding verses. The following example starts at Genesis 1:1. 1. Press 2. Press CLEAR ENTER . . 3. Press 4. Press DN or or UP to scroll. to page down or up. to page down. Or press SPACE 5. Press plus or to go to the end or start of the chapter. 6. Press plus DN or UP to go to the next or previous chapter. 11 Reading the Bible Where in the Bible Are You? Once at a verse, you can view its book, chapter, and verse number by pressing ?*. Viewing Word Counts Once at a verse, you can view the number of times a word occurs in the Bible. First, press ENTER to start the highlight. Then press the arrow keys to highlight a word. Then press plus SPEC . You cannot view the counts of the short, common words listed on p. 24. 12 Searching For Words You can search for any word in the Bible, except the short, common words listed on p. 24. Simply enter up to four words at the Request Line. You'll find every occurrence, or match, of the word(s). 1. At the Request Line, type up to four words. You don't need to type capital letters. To erase letters, press BACK . 2. Press ENTER . The diamonds mark the first match. 3. Press plus DN to view the next match. To view the previous match, press plus UP . 13 Searching For Words 4. Press MENU . 5. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 6. Press ENTER and then select a section with matches. 7. To clear the search, press CLEAR . Understanding Menus After a word search, the Old and New menus and section menus list only those books and sections containing matches of your search words. The last book or section that you read is checkmarked. To view full book and section menus, clear your search by pressing CLEAR . Then press MENU . 14 Searching For Words If You Misspell a Word When you request a misspelled word, or a correctly spelled word that is not in the Bible, you see a correction list like this: Press or to highlight a correction and then press ENTER . Or press BACK to edit your request. If No Matches Are Found When you request two or more words that have no exact matches, you see this menu: To search for similar words (i.e., inflections and synonyms), press ENTER . To edit your request, press and then ENTER . 15 Searching for Phrases Using the Search menu, you can select an ordered search and then narrow the search width so that you can find phrases. An ordered search finds words in the order that you request them. You can make these selections before or after a word search. 1. Press MENU . 2. Press the arrow keys to highlight h. O r d e r e d S e a r c h under S e a r c h Italicized items can't be used now. 3. Press ENTER . A check marks your selection. You can deselect it by pressing ENTER again. 4. Press 5. Press to highlight C h a n g e S e a r c h W i d t h h. ENTER . 16 Searching for Phrases 6. Press to highlight C l o s e T o g e t h e r r. Then press ENTER . 7. Type a phrase. 8. Press ENTER . Understanding Ordered Searches Remember, ordered searches find words only in the order in which you request them. For example, an ordered search for holy spirit will not find spirit holy . Understanding Search Widths The search width is how far apart your words can be in matches. Here are what the widths mean: Close Together : search words adjacent : a few words apart : a few verses apart. or nearly adjacent Not as Close Far Apart : many words apart Very Far Apart 17 Expanding Searches To find more matches, you can expand a word search up to three times. Each expansion adds related words to your word search. Try this example. 1. At the Request Line, type b e l i e f f. 2. Press 3. Press ENTER MENU to view the first match. . 4. Press the arrow keys to highlight h. E x p a n d S e a r c h under S e a r c h 5. Press ENTER . The number of books with matches increases. 6. Press ENTER two more times to fully expand the search. 18 Expanding Searches 7. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 8. Press ENTER and then select a section with matches. Unexpanding Searches To unexpand an expanded word search, first press MENU . Then press the arrow keys to highlight the Unexpand Search item under the Search menu. Then press ENTER . A Quick Way to Expand Searches Rather than using the Expand Search item under the Search menu, simply press MORE up to three times to expand a word search. After a word search, you can press MORE when Bible verses or the Old and New menus are in view. To quickly unexpand an unexpanded word search, press plus MORE . 19 Expanding Search Words When you search for more than one word, you can expand and then unexpand each word separately to fine-tune a word search. d. 1. At the Request Line, type c r e a t i o n g o d 2. Press 3. Press ENTER MENU . . 4. Press the arrow keys to highlight h. E x p a n d a W o r d under S e a r c h 5 Press ENTER . 6. Press 20 ENTER to expand c r e a t i o n n. Expanding Search Words The number of matches increases. 7. Press ENTER again to fully expand the word. If you press ENTER again, you see a message that no more expansion is possible. 8. Press BACK . 9. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book under the Old or New menu. 10. Press ENTER and then select a section with matches. Unexpanding Search Words You can unexpand expanded words in a multiple ...