Franklin GDS-2026R, GDS-2026 User Manual

BOOKMANâ

E L E C T R O N I C B O O K C A R D

Great Documents

of American History

USER’S GUIDE

GDS-2026

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN®! With this compilation of great documents, you can read over 60 of the most important documents and speeches to have shaped America. In addition, most have background information on topics such as the causes, provisions, results, dates, and people related to the documents. You can locate a document from the list or cus-

tomize your searches to find documents by subject, people, year, or the type of document. You can also find facts about U.S. presidents at the touch of a key. There are also two quiz games that test your knowledge of America’s history.

Use your BOOKMAN to read this book card. See “Installing Book Cards” to learn how.

Installing Book Cards and Selecting Books ........................	3
Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings ......................	4
A Note From the Editors .....................................................	5
Viewing a Demonstration ...................................................	5
Finding a Document ...........................................................	6
Reading the Document .......................................................	6
Viewing the Notes ..............................................................	7
Using the Locate Menu .......................................................	8
Using the Search Screen ....................................................	9
Finding Parts of Words .......................................................	10
Reading About Presidents ..................................................	11
Playing the Games..............................................................	12
Sending a Word Between Books .........................................	13
Resetting BOOKMAN .........................................................	13

Key Guide

Function Keys

CLEAR Clears to the main menus.

MENU Shows the main menus.

PRES (red) Goes to the Facts about the presidents list.

TEXT (green) Skips background information and goes directly to the text of the document.

GAMES (yellow) Shows the games list.

LIST (blue) Key has no function.

CARD Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

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 labelled on their book cards or on the keyboard. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”

	Other Keys
BACK	Backs up a step or erases a letter.
CAP	Shifts keys to type punctuation
	at the search screen.
ENTER	Enters a search, selects a
	menu item, or starts a highlight.
HELP	Shows help messages.
?	Expands a menu name; shifted,
	types an at the search screen.

Direction Keys

Moves down one line; in games, gives a hint.

Moves up one line; in games, shows the score.

Move left or right.

SPACE Types a space or pages down.

Star Key Combinations

+ CARD

+ ENTER

+ DN

+ UP

Sends a word between books.

Goes to background text from the list of documents or highlights showing icons.

Shows next entry or match. Showspreviousentryormatch.

Franklin GDS-2026R, GDS-2026 User Manual

Installing Book Cards		Selecting Books

Warning: Never install or remove a book card when BOOKMAN is on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book and in an installed book card will be erased.

1.Turn BOOKMAN off.

2.Turn BOOKMAN over.

3.Align the tabs on the book card with the notches in the slot.

Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use.

1.Turn 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 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.

Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at any screen. When you turn BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed appears.

Using the Color Keys		Changing Settings

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on your BOOKMAN change functions according to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the color keys function as labelled on the BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book card is selected, the color keys function as labelled on that book card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOKMAN books in book cards function as labelled on their book cards, not as on the keyboard.

You can adjust the type size, shutoff time, and screen contrast. The type 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.Press CLEAR .

2.Press the arrow keys to highlight the Setup menu.

3.Highlight Set Type Size, Set Shutoff, or Set Contrast.

4.Press ENTER .

5.Highlight a setting.

Or press or if you selected

Set Contrast.

6.Press ENTER to select it.

To exit without changing settings, press BACK .

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