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  • Page 1 Electronic Publishers IC-107 DIGITAL BOOK Personal ORGANIZER User’ s Manual For Use with the Franklin Digital Book System S C H E D U L E JUNE ÷...

  • 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

    Contents Getting Started ... 5 Install the Digital Book ... 6 Select the Organizer ... 7 Move Between Topics ... 8 Learn About Special Menus ... 11 Learn About Searches ... 12 Explore the Tutorials ... 14 Clock ... 16 Setting the Clock ...
  • Page 4 Contents Changing Phone Book Entries ... 43 World Time ... 45 Finding Locations ... 46 Adding Locations ... 48 Changing Locations ... 50 Calculator ... 53 Making Calculations ... 54 Saving Results ... 56 Using Previous Results ... 57 Other Functions ... 59 Gauging Memory ...
  • Page 5 Congratulations. You now have a powerful, portable new way to be organized. The Franklin Personal Organizer has six main functions, or topics: Clock, Schedule, Calendar, Phone Book, World Time, Calculator. The Organizer can store up to 128 kilobytes of information that you enter. And its built-in, on-card battery protects your entries between sessions.

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    Getting Started If you’re using the Organizer for the first time, read this section.

  • Page 7: Install The Digital Book

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

  • Page 8: Select The Organizer

    Select the Organizer Once it’s installed, you can select and start using the Organizer. 1. Press CARD 2. Press 3. Press ENTER 4. If you see the above message, press If you’ve never used this Organizer before, the Clock appears. See “Setting the Clock,” p. 17. Resuming Where You Left Off After your first session, you go to the last screen that you saw when you start using the Organizer...

  • Page 9: Move Between Topics

    Move Between Topics You can move between main functions, or topics, in the Organizer by selecting them from the Topic menu. Except for the first time, when you select a topic you go to the last screen that you saw in that topic. 1.

  • Page 10: Follow The Arrows

    Move Between Topics Follow the Arrows The blinking arrows at the bottom of the screen show which arrow keys you can press to move around menus and other screens. Zooming Between Topics You can move more quickly between topics by pressing these Gold key combinations at any screen except a help message.
  • Page 11 Move Between Topics Viewing Full Menu Items Some menu items are too long to be fully displayed on a menu. In that case, the item is followed by ellipses, like this: To view a full menu item, first press to highlight the item, as above. Then press To return to the menu, press BACK...

  • Page 12: Learn About Special Menus

    Learn About Special Menus All six topics have special menus. Special menus let you perform special tasks in a topic. You can view a special menu, if available, by pressing This is a special menu. Later in this User’s Manual, you’ll learn how to use every special menu.

  • Page 13: Learn About Searches

    Learn About Searches All topics except the Clock and Calculator have search screens. At search screens, you can enter searches to find information in a topic. You can go to a search screen, if available, by pressing This is a search screen. At any search screen, use these keys to enter searches.
  • Page 14 Learn About Searches Typing Punctuation Marks At search screens and other screens at which you can type characters, press to view MORE special punctuation marks not appearing on the keyboard. Next, press the arrow keys to highlight a punctuation mark. Then press to type it.

  • Page 15: Explore The Tutorials

    Explore the Tutorials For convenient instruction, the Organizer has a built- in tutorial for each topic as well as a general tutorial. 1. Press MENU 2. Press 3. If needed, press Tutorial. 4. With Tutorial highlighted, press 5. To view a tutorial, press and then To move down, press 6.

  • Page 16: Help Is Always At Hand

    Explore the Tutorials Help is Always at Hand At any screen, you can view a help message appropriate to your situation. To... view a help message move down the message exit the message To zoom to the top or bottom of a help message, press NOTE: To view a help message about all the Gold key combinations in the Organizer, press...

  • Page 17: Clock

    Clock This section shows you how to use the Clock. The Clock can be set to any U.S. time zone, standard or daylight savings time, or any time zone used in a World Time location. The Organizer’s on-card battery keeps the Clock running when the Organizer is removed from the Digital Book System.

  • Page 18: Setting The Clock

    Setting the Clock You should set the Clock before using other topics, following these steps. You can change Clock settings later, in any order, from the Clock special menu. 1. If the Clock is not in view, Select the Clock from the Topic menu. Or press 2.
  • Page 19 8. Press Summer Time or Standard Time. 9. Press SPEC 10. Press 11. Type a month, day, year, and time. To type numbers, press the numbered keys. To change a line, press 12. Press ENTER plus Setting the Clock to World Times You can also set the Clock to any time zone in a World Time location.

  • Page 20: Schedule

    Schedule This section shows you how to use the Schedule. The Schedule is an electronic date book. Using the Schedule, you can enter and find meetings, things to do, annual events, and more.

  • Page 21: Making Schedule Entries

    Making Schedule Entries Schedule entries are events—appointments, meet- ings, things to do—scheduled on a particular day. The first time that you use the Schedule, you must make a Schedule entry. In each Schedule entry, you must type an event description of up to 99 characters. 1.
  • Page 22 Making Schedule Entries 6. Type a time. Or press Type for a.m. or 7. Type an event description. To change a line, press 8. To add the entry to the Schedule, press at the last line. Or press ENTER at any line. ENTER This is a sample Schedule entry.
  • Page 23 Making Schedule Entries Making Annual Entries You can add birthdays, anniversaries, and other annually recurring events to the Schedule. First, with the Schedule selected, press press SPEC highlight New Annual Entry. Press ENTER Saving or Discarding Changes At any Schedule entry screen, you can save or discard your most recent changes.

  • Page 24: Finding Schedule Entries

    Finding Schedule Entries Once you’ve made Schedule entries, you can find them using the Schedule search screen, the Locate menu in the Schedule, or by scanning the Schedule or Matches menus. Searching for Entries At the Schedule search screen, you can find Schedule entries by date or other searches (see p.
  • Page 25 Finding Schedule Entries To view a list of all matching entries, press 5. To clear your search, press Other Schedule Searches Here are the other searches that you can enter at the Schedule search screen. Search By days months years a next or previous time period the first words in...
  • Page 26 Finding Schedule Entries Locating Entries You can also find Schedule entries by entering a date at the Locate menu in the Schedule. The current date is pre-entered. 1. With the Schedule selected, press 2. Press to highlight the Locate menu. 3.
  • Page 27 Finding Schedule Entries Scanning Entries You can scan matching Schedule entries after searching for or locating them. Or you can scan all your Schedule entries by selecting the Schedule, pressing CLEAR 1. With the Schedule selected, press After searching for or locating entries, the Matches menu appears.
  • Page 28 Finding Schedule Entries Viewing Your Next Appointment You can view your next appointment, the next Schedule entry from the current time, by pressing plus at any screen except a menu or help message. To exit the appointment, press BACK You can also view your next appointment by pressing at the Schedule search screen.

  • Page 29: Changing Schedule Entries

    Changing Schedule Entries Using the Schedule entry special menu, you can change, delete, undelete, or make new Schedule entries. You can also make annual entries or delete a range of old entries. These steps show how to change entries. To learn about your other options, see p. 29. 1.
  • Page 30 Changing Schedule Entries Other Schedule Changes Here are the other items on the Schedule entry special menu. To select an item, press then . To exit the menu, press ENTER Delete Entry from the Schedule. If you have only one entry and delete it, you must make a new Schedule...

  • Page 31: Calendar

    Calendar This section shows you how to use the Calendar. The Calendar covers every month from 1990 to 2052. The Calendar also marks the days and months with Schedule entries, so you can instantly view them.

  • Page 32: Finding Calendars

    Finding Calendars You can find monthly calendars using the Calendar search screen or the Locate menu in the Calendar. Searching for Calendars At the Calendar search screen, you can find calen- dars by month, year, or other searches (see p. 32). If you search for only a month, you go to the next occurrence of that month.
  • Page 33 5. To view the next or previous month, press 6. To view the next or previous year, press 7. To clear to the Calendar search screen, press CLEAR Other Calendar Searches Here are other searches that you can enter at the Calendar search screen.
  • Page 34 Locating Calendars You can also find calendars using the Locate menu in the Calendar. Simply select a month or year. If you select a month, you go to that month in the selected year. If you select a year, you go to that year. 1.

  • Page 35: Viewing Schedule Entries

    Viewing Schedule Entries In calendars, days and months that have Schedule entries are marked with a dot. You can view the entries for a marked day by highlighting it and then pressing ENTER you go to the Schedule search screen. 1.
  • Page 36 Viewing Schedule Entries Making Schedule Entries From Calendars At any monthly calendar, you can make new Schedule entries without selecting the Sched- ule. First, highlight any day in a calendar. Next, press to view the Calendar special SPEC menu. Then press to highlight New Schedule Entry.

  • Page 37: Phone Book

    Phone Book This section shows you how to use the Phone Book. The Phone Book is an electronic phone and address book. Using the Phone Book, you can save home and business phone numbers and addresses. Then you can find your Phone Book entries by any entered item.

  • Page 38: Making Phone Book Entries

    Making Phone Book Entries Phone Book entries may contain names, addresses, phone numbers, and notes. The first time that you use the Phone Book you must make a Phone Book entry. In each Phone Book entry, you must type a last name.
  • Page 39 Making Phone Book Entries Or press plus at any line. ENTER This is a sample Phone Book entry. 8. To return to the menu, press BACK The entry is listed alphabetically by last name.

  • Page 40: Finding Phone Book Entries

    Finding Phone Book Entries Once you’ve made Phone Book entries, you can find them using the Phone Book search screen, the Locate menu in the Phone Book, or by scanning the Phone or Matches menus. Searching for Entries At the Phone Book search screen, you can find Phone Book entries by first name, last name, or any line in an entry (see p.
  • Page 41 Finding Phone Book Entries Other Phone Book Searches Here are the other searches that you can enter at the Phone Book search screen. Search By company city state country area code first words in notes Whatever your search, it must exactly match the first letters or numbers of an item in a Phone Book entry, except for case.
  • Page 42 Finding Phone Book Entries Locating Entries You can also find Phone Book entries by first name, city, and state by selecting items from the Locate menu in the Phone Book. You can select up to 10 items in each category or items from more than one category. 1.
  • Page 43 Finding Phone Book Entries Scanning Entries You can scan matching Phone Book entries after searching for or locating them. Or you can scan all your Phone Book entries by selecting the Phone Book, pressing CLEAR 1. With the Phone Book, press After searching for or locating entries, the Matches menu appears.

  • Page 44: Changing Phone Book Entries

    Changing Phone Book Entries Using the Phone Book entry special menu, you can change, delete, undelete, or make new Phone Book entries. This example shows how to change a Phone Book entry. To learn about the other options, see p. 44. 1.
  • Page 45 Changing Phone Book Entries Other Phone Book Changes Here are your other items on the Phone Book entry special menu. To select an item, press and then ENTER Delete Entry in the Phone Book. If you have only one Phone Book entry and delete it, you must make a new entry before continuing in the Phone Book.

  • Page 46: World Time

    World Time This section shows you how to use the World Time. The World Time lets you find the current time and date in more than 270 pre-entered locations around the world. You can also add your own locations for customized reference.

  • Page 47: Finding Locations

    Finding Locations You can find the times and dates of locations using the World Time search screen or scanning the Locations or Matches menus. The Clock must be set for world times and dates to be current (see p. 17). Searching For Locations At the World Time search screen, you can find world- wide times and dates by location.
  • Page 48 Scanning Locations You can scan matching locations after searching for them. Or you can scan all the locations by selecting World Time, pressing 1. With World Time selected, press After searching, the Matches menu appears. Otherwise, the Locations menu does. 2.

  • Page 49: Adding Locations

    Adding Locations You can add your own locations to the World Time. Times at new locations must be set relative to Green- wich Mean Time (GMT). The names of your locations (city, country, etc.) can be up to 99 characters. 1.
  • Page 50 Adding Locations Understanding GMT Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the time at Greenwich, England, the site of the prime meridian (0 longitude). By convention, the 24 world time zones are calculated from Greenwich Mean Time. To find how many hours a time zone is from GMT, see an atlas, almanac, or encyclopedia.

  • Page 51: Changing Locations

    Changing Locations Using the Location special menu, you can change, delete, undelete, and add new locations. You can also set the Clock to any World Time Zone. This example shows you how change World Time locations. To learn about your other options, see p. 52. 1.
  • Page 52 5. Type your changes. See “Adding Locations,” p. 48. 6. To update the location, press line. Or press Or press CLEAR and press Changes 7. To return to the main menus, press Saving or Discarding Changes At any Location entry screen, you can save or discard your most recent changes.
  • Page 53 Other Location Changes Here are the other items on the Location special menu. To select an item, press . To exit the menu, press ENTER Delete Entry location from the World Time list. Undelete Entry recently deleted location, even if you deleted it during a previous session.

  • Page 54: Calculator

    Calculator This section shows you how to use the Calculator. The Calculator performs basic math operations, squares, square roots, and reciprocals. You can also save your results and use them in later calculations.

  • Page 55: Making Calculations

    Making Calculations Using the Calculator, you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers of up to 10 digits. You can also calculate squares, square roots, and reciprocals. 1. Select the Calculator from the Topic menu. Or press This is the Calculator screen. 2.
  • Page 56 6. To repeat a previous operation, press Or type more numbers and do more calculations. 7. To clear the current calculations, press CLEAR Squares, Square Roots, Reciprocals To. . . square a number find a square root find a reciprocal Scanning Calculations To.

  • Page 57: Saving Results

    Saving Results Using the Calculator special menu, you can save the result of any calculation and use it in later calculations. You should name each result before you save it. 1. Make a calculation. See “Making Calculations,” p. 54. 2. Press SPEC 3.

  • Page 58: Using Previous Results

    Using Previous Results Using the Calculator special menu, you can use previously saved results in your current calculations. 1. At the Calculator screen, press 2. Press to highlight Use Previous Result. 3. Press ENTER 4. Press to highlight a result. 5.
  • Page 59 Using Previous Results A Quick Way to Use Saved Results Simply type the name of a saved result directly at the Calculator screen. For example, if you had saved a result named “subtotal,” you would type at the subtotal Calculator screen. Then press to use it in your calculations.

  • Page 60: Other Functions

    Other Functions This section shows you how to use the functions under the Other menu. Using the Other menu, You can gauge the memory, name and copy your Organizer, set the shutoff timing, and reset the Organizer.

  • Page 61: Gauging Memory

    Gauging Memory Using the Memory Gauge, you can check how much of the Organizer’s 128 kilobytes of memory is available for more entries. 1. Press MENU 2. Press 3. Press 4. Press ENTER 1 1 1 1 1 5. To return to menus, press About the Organizer’s Memory The Organizer’s memory is dynamically allocated.

  • Page 62: Naming Cards

    Naming Cards You must name an Organizer digital book, or card, before copying to or from it. To learn how to copy Organizer cards, see p. 62. 1. Press MENU 2. Press to highlight the Other menu. 3. Press 4. Press ENTER 5.

  • Page 63: Copying Cards

    Copying Cards To share information or provide extra protection, you can copy all the entries from one Organizer card to another. Before you copy, you must have two named Organizers installed in your Digital Book System (see p. 61). WARNING: When you copy to an Organizer card, all previous entries on that card are overwritten.

  • Page 64: More Functions

    More Functions Using the Other menu, you can also set the auto- matic shutoff timing, view the copyright, do a factory reset, and verify the Phone Book. First, press and then MENU Next, press Set Shutoff Time long the Digital Book System stays on when you forget to turn it off.
  • Page 65 More Functions About the On-Card Battery The Organizer has its own built-in, 3-volt, CR1220 lithium battery. This means that you can remove an Organizer from the Digital Book System without fear of losing any information that you entered in it. This on-card battery uses little power, so you rarely, if ever, need to change it.

  • Page 66: Appendixes

    Appendixes This section reviews how to use the Digital Book System and the Organizer.

  • Page 67: 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 68: Switching Between Digital Books

    Digital Book System 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 69: Replacing The Batteries

    Replacing the Batteries Your Digital Book System uses CR2032 lithium batteries. Have four new batteries ready before following these steps. 1. Turn the Digital Book System off. 2. Press and slide the battery cover off the back of the unit. Then remove all batteries. 3.

  • Page 70: Protecting The Digital Book System

    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 71: Specifications

    • On-card 3-volt, CR1220 lithium battery • On-card RAM: 128 kilobytes • Size: 58 x 31 x 7 (2-1/4” x 1-1/4” x 1/4”) • ROM size: 2 megabits Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents © 1993 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.. Patents Pending. ISBN 1-56712-025-3...
  • Page 72 Limited Warranty (U.S. 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 73: Key Guide

    Function Keys Start a search. Or clear current calculations. CLEAR Go to main menus. MENU At search and entry screens, type special MORE punctuation marks. At some help messages, view more help. Exit the Organizer. CARD Select an item. Search. Or calculate. ENTER View a special menu.
  • Page 74 ENTER SHIFT In the Calculator SHIFT Other Keys SHIFT SPACE Key Guide Go to the Phone Book. Go to the Clock. Go to the Calendar (dates). Go to World Time (foreign). Go to the Calculator (math). View the next appointment. Go to the Schedule.

  • Page 75: Index

    Annual Schedule entries 22, 29 Arrow keys, using 9 Auto-resume feature 7 Batteries replacing Digital Book Sys- tem 68 Organizer cards 64 Calculator clearing calculations 55 deleting results 57 making calculations 54 reciprocals 55 saving results 56 scanning calcula- tions 55 squares/square roots 55 typing...
  • Page 76 Finding calendars 31 Phone Book entries 39 Schedule entries 23 world times by loca- tion 46 Gold key combinations making calcula- tions 55, 58 typing numbers at search screens 12 typing special punctua- tion 13 zooming between topics 9 Help messages 15 Installing digital books 6 Key Guide 72...
  • Page 77 locating entries 41 making entries 37, 44 saving changes 38 scanning entries 42 searching by last name 39 by other items 40 selecting 37 verifying entries 63 Product specifica- tions 70 Punctuation marks 13 Reciprocals 55 Resetting Organizer cards 63 Schedule annual entries 22, 29 changing entries 28...
  • Page 78 Time zones in Clock 17 Topic menu 8 Topics moving between 8 overview 4 zooming between 9 Tutorials 14 Typing decimals 54 letters at search screens 12 in the Calculator negative numbers 54 numbers at search screens 12 in the Calculator 58 punctuation 13 Verifying Phone Book 63...
  • Page 79 Electronic Publishers Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 FCR-28007-00 A PN 7201665 Printed in China...

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