Franklin IC-101 User Manual
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For Use with the Franklin
Digital Book System
IC-101
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DIGITAL BOOK
Merriam
Webster
DICTIONARY
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User’s Manual
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Contents
Meet Dictionary Plus.....................................3
Starting Dictionary Plus ...............................5
Correcting Spellings .....................................8
Finding Spellings .........................................10
Looking up Definitions ................................13
Finding Thesaurus Meanings .....................16
Finding Synonyms .......................................18
Finding Confusable Words .........................20
Using Pick Mode ..........................................22
Reviewing Your Path List ............................24
Using With Other Books..............................26
Selecting Menu Settings..............................28
Appendixes...................................................30
Key Guide .....................................................41
Index..............................................................44
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Meet
Dictionary Plus
What
Your new
more than a dictionary. It’s a spelling corrector,
dictionary, and thesaurus combined in one powerful
and portable reference. Using
you can. . .
You can even use
from certain other digital books.
Dictionary Plus
Merriam-Webster® Dictionary Plus
• find the words you need in spelling correction
lists, dictionary definitions, thesaurus meanings,
and synonym lists.
• distinguish frequently confused words,
• pick words on screen to look up, and
• review words that you have looked up in
previous sessions.
Dictionary Plus
Can Do
Dictionary Plus
to look up words
is much
,
Your First Tip
Throughout this manual, look for gray-boxed
tips like this one. They explain how to get the
most from your
Dictionary Plus
.
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Dictionary Plus
How
Dictionary Plus
Works
Dictionary Plus
is easy to use. You simply type in
words, or pick them from on screen, and then look
them up. Here's what a typical session looks like:
The screen says "Type a word. . ."
You type a word You see the word's
ENTERENTER
ENTER
and press . dictionary definitions.
You press . You see its thesaurus
ENTERENTER
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MORE
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meanings.
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MORE
You press . You see its synonyms.
You press . And you’re back at the
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main prompt, ready to
type another word.
It’s that easy.
This User's Manual explains how to use
Plus
in detail. If you haven’t used
Dictionary
Dictionary Plus
before, read its chapters in order and try the examples. If you’re an experienced user, keep this
manual for quick reference.
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Starting
Dictionary Plus
Before you can use
installed in your Digital Book System. Here's how.
1.
Turn the Digital Book System off
WARNING If you install
while the Digital Book System is on,
information that you entered in the other
installed digital book could be erased.
2. Put
Dictionary Plus
Dictionary Plus
Dictionary Plus
in either book slot
, it must be
.
on the back of the Digital Book System.
Align its tabs with the notches in the book slot.
Make sure its metal contacts are facing down.
contrast
control
ON/OFFON/OFF
ON/OFF
ON/OFFON/OFF
3. Press .
If the screen is blank, adjust the contrast control
on the left side of the Digital Book System.
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Starting
If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.
4. Press .
CARDCARD
CARD
CARDCARD
You see the digital book symbols.
5. Highlight the
Dictionary Plus
symbol by
pressing or .
ENTERENTER
ENTER
6. Press .
This is
ENTERENTER
Dictionary Plus
's main prompt. It’s where
you type words to find spellings, dictionary
definitions, thesaurus meanings, synonyms, and
confusable words. You can get to the main prompt
at any time by pressing .
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Starting
Help is Always at Hand
If you're ever unsure about what to do next,
HELPHELP
press to see an appropriate help
HELP
HELPHELP
message. If you want to see the Gold key
combinations (the keys you can press
while holding ), just press .
To scroll through help messages, press
or . To page through them, press
BACKBACK
or . To exit them, press .
UP
BACK
BACKBACK
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How to See a Demonstration
To see a brief demonstration of
Dictionary Plus
main features, follow these steps:
• Press .
MENUMENU
MENU
MENUMENU
• Then press to highlight "Demo."
• Then press .
ENTERENTER
ENTER
ENTERENTER
You can stop the demo at any time by pressing
.
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Correcting Spellings
You don't have to be a perfect speller to look up
words using
example shows, when you enter a misspelled word,
Dictionary Plus
correction list.
1. At the main prompt, type "kawphy".
If you're not at the main prompt, first press
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2. Press .
Dictionary Plus
. As the following
automatically displays a spelling
BACKBACK
BACK
. To erase letters, press .
ENTERENTER
ENTER
ENTERENTER
BACKBACK
This is a spelling correction list.
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Correcting Spellings
3. Press .
You scroll down the list.
Here's what you can do now:
To . . . Press . . .
Define a word Highlight it.
Then
Go back to the list
BACKBACK
BACK
from a definition
4. When you're done, press .
BACKBACK
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Follow the Arrows
In
Dictionary Plus
blinking arrow at the upper right of
the screen, like this:
This arrow shows that more information is in the
display than appears on screen now. To see
more of the display, simply press .
, you'll often see a
ENTERENTER
ENTER
ENTERENTER
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Finding Spellings
Dictionary Plus
you find spellings when you don't know all the letters in
a word. You can use it to solve crossword puzzles, too.
’s MatchMaker™ key-- --helps
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Using the Letter Detective™
The question mark is called the Letter Detective
because it finds missing letters in words. Type a
question mark for every letter that you don't know.
1. At the main prompt, type a "conc??ve".
ENTERENTER
ENTER
2. Press .
This is a MatchMaker list.
3. Press to highlight a word. Then press
ENTERENTER
.
ENTER
ENTERENTER
You see its definitions. When you're at long
MatchMaker lists, you may want to page up and
ENTERENTER
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Finding Spellings
down the list. Just press or . To go to the
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end of the list, hold and press .
4. When you're done, press .
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Using the Fragment Finder™
The asterisk is called the Fragment Finder because it
finds words containing the word fragment that you type.
SHIFTSHIFT
SHIFT
To type an asterisk, hold and press .
1. At the main prompt, type " abund*".
ENTERENTER
ENTER
2. Press .
ENTERENTER
3. Press to highlight a word . Then press
ENTERENTER
ENTER
ENTERENTER
.
4. When you're done, press .
SHIFTSHIFT
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? *? *
? *
? *? *
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Finding Spellings
MatchMaker Tips
You can type question marks and asterisks in
the same word; for example, “pers?ver*”.
But avoid typing question marks and asterisks in
place of a word’s first letters. If type them there,
the search for a MatchMaker list may take a
while.
Solving Crossword Puzzles
You can use the MatchMaker key to help solve
crossword puzzles.
For example, let's say your crossword clue is
"To lessen." You know its five-letter answer
starts with an A and ends with TE.
Simply type "a??te" at
prompt. Then press . You'll see a
MatchMaker list including "abate," the answer.
Dictionary Plus
ENTERENTER
ENTER
ENTERENTER
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's main
Looking up Definitions
Dictionary Plus
nary definitions. You can find them in two ways:
• by typing words at the main prompt,
• or by picking words on screen.
The following example shows how to define words by
typing them. To learn how to define words by picking
them, read "Using the Pick Mode."
1. At the main prompt, type "run".
2. Press .
Or you can hold and press .
This is a dictionary definition. Dictionary definitions
start with the word you entered, with its
hyphenation points and part of speech shown.
3. Press to scroll down the definition.
contains more than 270,000 dictio-
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ENTER
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Looking up Definitions
You see inflections of the main word (unless you
turned off the inflections at the Setup menu), one
or more meanings, plus related words and
phrases.
Here's what you can do now:
To . . . Press . . .
Page through the definition or
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Zoom to the end or start +
of the definition or
See thesaurus meanings
and synonyms for the main word
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Browsing Through Definitions
With
Dictionary Plus
dictionary entries as you would in a book.
, you can flip through
UP
When you're at a definition, hold while
pressing to see the next dictionary entry.
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To return to previous entries, hold and
press .
UP
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