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Franklin IC-109 User Manual

The official scrabble players dictionary
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The Official
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  • Page 1 For Use with the Franklin Digital Book System Electronic Publishers IC-109 DIGITAL BOOK The Official Players Dictionary User’ s Manual...

  • Page 2: License Agreement

    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.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Getting Started ... 4 Install the Digital Book ... 5 Adjust the Contrast ... 6 See a Demonstration ... 7 Learn the Keys ... 8 Verifying Words ... 10 Defining Words ... 11 Checking Spellings ... 13 Finding Spellings ... 14 Building Words ...
  • Page 4 Introduction ® The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary contains more than 100,000 words specially chosen for ® playing Scrabble . You’ll find short words, unusual words, and words spelled with less- ® frequent letters that help you get higher Scrabble scores. All words have brief definitions.

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    Getting Started If you’re using ® The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary for the first time, read this section.

  • Page 6: Install The Digital Book

    Install the Digital Book You must install The Official Scrabble Dictionary digital book before you can use it. 1. Turn the Digital Book System off. 2. Insert The Official Scrabble Dictionary in a slot on the back. Line up the digital book’s tabs with the notches in the slot.

  • Page 7: Adjust The Contrast

    Adjust the Contrast After you’ve installed The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary digital book, you can adjust the Digital Book System’s screen contrast at any time. 1. Turn the contrast wheel. contrast wheel 2. If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.

  • Page 8: See A Demonstration

    See a Demonstration . Here’s how to see a brief demonstration of The Official Scrabble 1. Press CARD 2. Press 3. Press ENTER 4. Press MORE 5. Press CLEAR Help is Always at Hand If you’re ever unsure what to do next, press HELP To exit help messages, press...

  • Page 9: Learn The Keys

    Learn the Keys Function Keys CLEAR MORE LIST CARD ENTER BACK HELP Direction Keys ™ MatchMaker SPACE SHIFT Clear to the first screen. See a brief demonstration. Build a list of Scrabble Switch to another digital book. Verify or define a word. Back up or erase letters.
  • Page 10 Letter Score Keys Clearing and Backing Up To clear to the first screen at any time, press CLEAR If you entered tiles, they’re cleared, too. To back up at any time, press If you were typing tiles or a board pattern, the previous character is erased.

  • Page 11: Verifying Words

    Verifying Words This section shows how to verify definitions and spellings.

  • Page 12: Defining Words

    Defining Words You can easily verify the definitions of words in your tray or on the Scrabble define words in definitions. 1. Press CLEAR 2. Type a word. To erase letters, press word, press 3. Press ENTER 4. Press ENTER Notice the highlight.
  • Page 13 Defining Words 5. Press to move the highlight. To turn off the highlight, press 6. Press ENTER 7. When you’re done, press More About Definitions When you verify an inflected word, you • see a definition of its root word. •...

  • Page 14: Checking Spellings

    Checking Spellings Here’s how to verify or correct spellings. 1. At the first screen, type a word that you think may be misspelled. 2. Press ENTER 3. If you want, press light another word in the list. 4. Press ENTER 5.

  • Page 15: Finding Spellings

    Finding Spellings You can find spellings even when you don’t know all the letters in a word by using the MatchMaker keys—the question mark and asterisk. Each ? stands for a single unknown letter. Each for any number of unknown letters. 1.
  • Page 16 Using ?’s and ’s as Tiles You can type more than one ? or your tiles. Remember, ’s stand for any number of letters, including none. Unusual Uses for ?’s and ’s Typing ?’s and ’s as tiles can help you find lists of unusual words.

  • Page 17: Building Words

    Building Words This section shows how to build words from your tiles and fit them into patterns ® already on the Scrabble board.

  • Page 18: Building With Tiles

    Building With Tiles The simplest way to build words from your tiles is without a board pattern. If you’re not at the first screen, press 1. At the first screen, type the tiles in your tray. 2. Press LIST 3. Press ENTER The words that you can make are ranked by their Scrabble...
  • Page 19 Building With Tiles Building Words With Blank Tiles ® If you have a blank tile in your Scrabble tray, press to simulate it. SPACE ® There are only two blank tiles in Scrabble Eight Tiles in a Tray If you type more than eight tiles, you see a “No more”...

  • Page 20: Building On Words

    Building on Words The real power of The Official Scrabble Dictionary is its ability to fit tiles into patterns of letters and words already on the Scrabble This example shows how to build on words. 1. At the first screen, type your tiles. 2.
  • Page 21 Building on Words your tiles board pattern 5. Press 6. Press ENTER 7. When you’re done, press Using Words as Board Patterns When you enter a word as a board pattern, as in the above example, appear before and after the word. These ’s allow words to be built by adding tiles at either end of your board pattern.

  • Page 22: Building Between Letters

    Building Between Letters To build words that fit between letters on the ® Scrabble board, use the MatchMaker ? and the —to stand for the empty squares. 1. At the first screen, type your tiles. 2. Press LIST 3. In the board pattern, type a ? for an empty square or an To type an , hold 4.
  • Page 23 Building Between Letters 5. Press 6. Press ENTER 7. When you’re done, press Using ?’s and ’s in Patterns • You can enter more than one ? or board pattern. An of empty squares, including none. • Remember, when you enter one or more ? in a board pattern, no ?’s or ’s are automatically added by The Official ®...

  • Page 24: Building On Letter Scores

    Building on Letter Scores For higher scores, you can enter the letter score squares that appear on the Scrabble type a 2 for each double letter score or a 3 for each triple letter score. 1. At the first screen, type your tiles. 2.
  • Page 25 Building on Letter Scores 5. Press 6. Press ENTER 7. When you’re done, press Using 2’s and 3’s in Patterns • You can enter more than one 2 or 3 in a board pattern, but there are no patterns on the Scrabble letter scores squares.

  • Page 26: Reference

    Reference Reference This section reviews how to use the Digital Book System.

  • Page 27: Digital Book System

    Digital Book System Installing & Removing Digital Books To install a digital book, first turn off your Digital Book System. Then align the digital book’s tabs with the notches in either book slot on the back and snap the book into the slot. If you install only one book, it doesn’t matter which slot you use.

  • Page 28: Switching Between Digital Books

    Switching Between Digital Books 1. With two digital books installed, press CARD 2. Highlight a symbol by pressing Then press To return to the first book, repeat these steps. Sending Words Between Books Some digital books can send and receive words from other digital books.
  • Page 29 Digital Book System Typing Notes The Digital Book System’s built-in notepad stores up to 60 lines of text. To open the notepad, press the notepad symbol and press Here’s how to type notes: To . . . Type letters Type numbers Erase characters Insert a line Move the cursor...
  • Page 30 Editing Notes Once you’ve typed notes in your notepad, you can edit them. Here’s how. To. . . Highlight a word Unhighlight a word Highlight a line Highlight all notes Unhighlight notes Cut highlighted notes Copy highlighted notes Paste highlighted notes Delete highlighted notes One Edit at a Time If you cut or copy notes, and then cut or copy...
  • Page 31 Digital Book System Copying Words to/from the Notepad To copy words from the notepad to certain installed digital books: 1. Press the arrow keys to move the cursor to a word in your notepad. 2. Then press 3. Then hold 4.
  • Page 32 Replacing the Batteries Your unit uses CR2032 lithium batteries. Before replacing them, have four new batteries ready. 1. Turn your Digital Book System off. 2. Remove the battery cover on the back. Then remove all batteries. 3. Promptly slide two new batteries into the battery cavity with the metal clip over it.
  • Page 33 Digital Book System Protecting the Digital Book System • Don't touch the metal contacts on the back of your digital books or the rubber contacts in the book slots of the Digital Book System. CAUTION: Touching the contacts with statically charged objects, including your fingers, could erase informa- tion that you entered in your installed digital books.

  • Page 34: Limited Warranty

    Limited Warranty (USA only) FRANKLIN warrants to you that the DIGITAL BOOK will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your DIGITAL BOOK, 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., 122 Burrs Road, Mt.

  • Page 35: Product Specifications

    • Self-demonstration. • ROM size: 1 megabyte. Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents © 1993 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. This manual is copyrighted 1993 by Franklin. © 1990 by Milton Bradley Company, a division of Hasbro, Inc. All rights reserved.

  • Page 36: Index

    Adjusting screen contrast 6 Arrow keys 9 Asterisks [Index to come][ as tiles 15 for finding spellings 14 in board pat- terns 21, 22, 24 typing 14 Automatic shut-off 6 BACK key 7, 9, 11 Backing up 9 Batteries replacing 31 Blank tiles 18 Building words to fit board patterns...
  • Page 37 Index Key Guide 8 Letter scores in board patterns 24 typing 23 LIST key 17, 19, 21, 23 ™ MatchMaker keys for finding spellings 14 in board patterns 21 MORE key 7 NEXT and PREV 12 "No more" message 18 ON/OFF key 5 PREV and NEXT 12 Question marks...
  • Page 38 Electronic Publishers Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 FCR 28009-00 A Printed in China P/N 7201690...

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