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Franklin BOOKMAN MWS-840 User Manual

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  • Page 1 ™ Electronic Publishers Dictionary & Thesaurus User’ s Guide MWS-840...
  • Page 2 FRANKLIN means Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. LIMITED USE LICENSE All rights in the BOOKMAN BOOK CARD remain the property of FRANKLIN. Through your purchase, FRANKLIN grants you a personal and nonexclusive li- cense to use the BOOKMAN BOOK CARD on a single FRANKLIN BOOKMAN at a time.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN! BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable elec- tronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this Dictionary & Thesaurus you can find and hear over 83,000 dictionary entries, Installing Batteries and Book Cards ...

  • Page 4: Key Guide

    Function Keys Clears to Enter your word . CLEAR Shows the main menus. MENU Shows a thesaurus entry. THES (red) Says a word. (green) Shows the games list. GAMES (yellow) Shows the User list menu. LIST (blue) Exits the selected book. CARD Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

  • Page 5: Installing Batteries And Book Cards

    Installing Batteries BOOKMAN model 840 uses four AAA batteries. Here is how to install or replace them. Warning: When the batteries lose power or are removed from BOOK- MAN, information that you entered in its built-in book, and in an installed book card, will be erased.

  • Page 6: Selecting A Book

    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 to highlight the book you want to use. 4.

  • Page 7: Changing Settings

    Changing Settings You can adjust the font size, shutoff time, and screen contrast. Font size changes the number of lines of text that appear on screen. The shutoff time is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. 1.

  • Page 8: Finding Definitions And Words In Definitions

    Finding Definitions It’s easy to look up a word in the dictio- nary. Simply type it at the Entry screen and press . Try this example. ENTER 1. Press CLEAR 2. Type a word (e.g., knowl- edge). To erase a letter, press 3.

  • Page 9: Correcting Misspellings

    Correcting Misspellings If you misspell a word, don’t worry. It will be corrected automatically. 1. Type a misspelled word (e.g., nolij). To erase a letter, press 2. Press ENTER 3. Press to highlight a correction. 4. Press to view its dictio- ENTER nary entry.

  • Page 10: Finding Spellings

    Finding Synonyms Understanding Thesaurus Entries Thesaurus entries consist of thesaurus meanings and a synonym list. A thesaurus meaning is a definition shared by a list of synonyms. Two Ways to Back Up Pressing takes you back to BACK the previous screen you viewed. You can continue to back up until you get to Enter your word .

  • Page 11: Highlighting Words

    Highlighting Words Another way to look up words is by highlighting them in dictionary defini- tions, thesaurus entries, or word lists. Then you can find their definitions, the- saurus entries, Confusables, or add them to your User list. 1. At any text, press start the highlight.

  • Page 12: Hearing And Reviewing Words

    Hearing Words You can hear a word pronounced at the Entry screen, in text, or in a list. NOTE: You can only hear words if you have a speaking BOOKMAN unit. At the Entry screen 1. Type a word at the Entry screen. 2.

  • Page 13: Using The User List

    Using the User List You can create a User list of up to 40 words. You can even add words to your User list that are not in this dictionary. Here’s how to add and to view a word. 1. Press to view the User LIST list menu.

  • Page 14: Sending Words

    Using the User List You can delete one or all the words in your User list. Here’s how. Deleting One Word 1. Press LIST 2. Select Delete word. 3. Highlight a word on the list. 4. Press to delete it. ENTER 5.

  • Page 15: Playing The Games

    Changing Game Settings You can change the game settings at any time. Each setting applies to all the games. Word list lets you pick which words you’ll play the games with. If you se- lect Type Them in , you’ll need to type in words after you select a game.
  • Page 16 Playing the Games Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’s, one letter at a time. The number of wrong guesses you can make appears to the right of the #’s. For a hint hold press Or press round.

  • Page 17: Resetting Bookman

    Book card Care • Do not touch the metal contacts on the book cards. Caution: Touching these electrical contacts with statically charged ob- jects, including your fingers, could erase information entered in a book card or built-in book. • Do not put excessive pressure on the book cards.

  • Page 18: Optional Features

    MAN may also have a 3.5 mm stereo headphone jack for use with a stan- dard impedance 8 Ohm headset. Copyrights and Patents BOOKMAN Model MWS-840 • batteries: 4 AAA • size: 14 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm • weight: 7 oz. (without batteries) ©...
  • Page 19 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, NJ 08016, within one year of purchase.
  • Page 20 ?* key 3, 9, 15 Anagrams game 15 Asterisk key 3, 15 Asterisks 9 Auto resume feature 4 Backing up 9 Changing BOOKMAN's settings Color keys understanding 3 using 5 Confusables, finding 10 Correcting misspellings 8 Demonstration 6 Erasing a letter 7 Flashing messages ? 10 THES 8...

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