Franklin IC-121 User Manual

Electronic Publishers

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For Use with the Franklin

Digital Book System

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IC-121

DIGITAL BOOK

HOLY BIBLE

NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION

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User’s Manual

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Contents

Getting Started ............................................... 4

Viewing a Demo.............................................. 6

Using the Menus ............................................ 7

Finding Book, Chapter, Verse....................... 9

Reading the Bible.......................................... 11

Searching For Words.................................... 13

Searching for Phrases .................................. 16

Expanding Searches..................................... 18

Expanding Search Words ............................ 20

Picking Search Words .................................. 23

Viewing Footnotes ........................................ 25

Using Bookmarks.......................................... 27

Changing Settings ........................................ 29

Sending Words.............................................. 31

Digital Book System®................................... 33

Specifications................................................ 36

Warranty ........................................................ 37

Key Guide ...................................................... 38

Index............................................................... 39

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Introduction

Congratulations! Your new Bible combines the
modern language of the New International Version
(NIV) with the latest technology from Franklin
Electronic Publishers.

Using this Bible, you can. . .

• read any verse of the Old or New Testament,

• scan and read surrounding verses,

• search for words or phrases as you would in
a concordance,

• pick and search for words from any verse,

• expand your searches,

• view footnotes and word counts,

• place up to 30 bookmarks,

• change type size and other settings, and

• look up Bible words in other digital books.

This User’s Manual shows you how. You can use it
as a tutorial or as a reference.

✓ Your First Tip

Throughout this User’s Manual, you’ll see tips
about how to get the most from your new Bible.
Look for them.

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Getting Started

You must install the Bible digital book before you
can use it. WARNING: Never install a digital book
when the Digital Book System is on.

1. Turn the Digital Book System off.

2. Install the Bible in a slot on the back.

3. Press .

ON/OFF

4. To adjust the contrast, turn the wheel
on the side of the Digital Book System.

If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.

✓ Protect Your Digital Books

If you install or remove digital books while the
Digital Book System is on, information that you
entered in any installed digital book may be
erased.

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Getting Started

Once the Bible is installed, here is how to select and
start using it.

1. Press .

2. Press

CARD

or to highlight the NIV

Bible symbol.

3. Press .

ENTER

This is the Request Line of the Bible. You can
always go to the Request Line by pressing

✓ Resuming Where You Left Off

When using the Bible, you can turn off the
Digital Book System at any time. When you turn
the Digital Book System on again, you’ll return
to the screen that you last saw.

CLEAR

.

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Viewing a Demo

Before using the Bible, you may want to view a
demonstration of what it can do.

1. Press .

2. Press to highlight
under

3. Press .

4. To stop the demo, press .

MENU

OtherOther

Other.

OtherOther

ENTER

ViewView

View

ViewView

CLEAR

DemoDemo

Demo

DemoDemo

✓ Help is at Hand

Except while viewing the demo, you can view
help messages at any screen by pressing

HELP

.

To scroll up or down, press or .
To page down, press or .
To go to the start or end of a message,
hold and press or .
To exit a help message, press .

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DN

SPACE

BACK

Using the Menus

Using the Old and New menus, you can select and
view any book or section of the Bible. Try this
example.

1. If you’re not at the menus, press .

NewNew

2. Press to highlight

New.

NewNew

MENU

The flashing arrows show which arrow keys
you can press at any screen.

SPEC

RomansRomans

Romans.

RomansRomans

3. Press to highlight

4. Press or .

ENTER

5. Press to highlight a section.

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Using the Menus

6. Press .

7. Press to return to the menus.

ENTER

MENU

A check marks the book that you last read.

✓ Tips for Using Menus

• To go to the top or bottom of a menu, hold the

gold key, , while pressing or .
For example, hold and press under
the Old menu to highlight Malachi .

• To go directly to the first verse of a book,

highlight the book under the Old or New menu
and then press plus .

• To view the sections of the current book when

you’re viewing verses, press . Then
you can select and view another section.

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ENTER

SPEC

Finding Book, Chapter , V erse

You can find any verse of the Bible by entering a
book title, chapter number, and verse number at the
Request Line. You should type a space or colon
between the chapter and verse numbers. You don’t
need to type capital letters.

1. At the Request Line, type a book title,
chapter number, and verse number.

To type numbers, press plus the numbered
keys.* To type a space, press .To type a
colon, press plus . To erase
characters, press .

SHIFT

BACK

SPACE

; :

2. Press .

3. Press or to move down.

4. When you’re done, press .

*If you’re using a DBS-2D, simply press the number keys.

ENTER

DN

CLEAR

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Finding Book, Chapter, Verse

✓ Tips for Finding Verses

• Type only a book title to find the first verse in a
book. Type a book and chapter number to find
the first verse in a chapter.

• Type abbreviations rather than full book titles

ps for Psalms or eph for Ephesians).

(e.g.,

• Type an Arabic or Roman numeral before
books of more than one volume
(e.g., 1 samuel or II kings ).

• Type words from section titles to find sections
(e.g., magi for the Visit of the Magi, Mt. 2:1).

✓ Ambiguous Requests

Some book titles, such as John and Numbers ,
are also words in the Bible. When you request
one of them without a chapter or verse number,
you see a menu like this:

To read the book, press . To search for
the word, press and then .

ENTER

ENTER

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Reading the Bible

Once you’ve found a Bible verse, you can scan and
view surrounding verses. The following example
starts at Genesis 1:1.

1. Press .

2. Press .

CLEAR

ENTER

3. Press or to scroll.

4. Press or to page down or up.

Or press to page down.

DN

UP

SPACE

5. Press plus or to go to
the end or start of the chapter.

6. Press plus or to go to

DN

UP

the next or previous chapter.

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Reading the Bible

✓ Where in the Bible Are You?

Once at a verse, you can view its book,
chapter, and verse number by pressing .

? *

✓ Viewing Word Counts

Once at a verse, you can view the number of
times a word occurs in the Bible.

First, press to start the highlight.
Then press the arrow keys to highlight a word.
Then press plus .

You cannot view the counts of the short,
common words listed on p. 24.

ENTER

SPEC

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