Franklin IC-133 User Manual

License Agreement

READ THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE DIGITAL BOOK. YOUR USE OF THE DIGITAL BOOK DEEMS THAT YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE

TERMS, YOU MAY RETURN THIS PACKAGE WITH

PURCHASE RECEIPT TO THE DEALER FROM WHICH

YOU PURCHASED THE DIGITAL BOOK AND YOUR PURCHASE PRICE WILL BE REFUNDED. DIGITAL

BOOK means the software product and documentation found in this package and FRANKLIN means Franklin

Electronic Publishers, Inc.

LIMITED USE LICENSE

All rights in the DIGITAL BOOK remain the property of 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. Such copying would be in violation of applicable copyright laws. Further, you may not modify, adapt, disassemble, decompile, translate, create derivative works of, or in any way reverse engineer the DIGITAL BOOK. You may not export or re-export, directly or indirectly, the

DIGITAL BOOK without compliance with appropriate governmental regulations. The DIGITAL BOOK contains

Franklin’s confidential and propriety information which you agree to take adequate steps to protect from unauthorized disclosure or use. This license is effective until terminated.

This license terminates immediately without notice from FRANKLIN if you fail to comply with any provision of this license.

1

Contents
Installing the Digital Book ..........................	4
Viewing a Demonstration ...........................	5
Finding Definitions ......................................	6
Using the Entries Menu ..............................	8
Finding Letters in Words ............................	9
Viewing Inflections ......................................	10
Viewing Phrases ..........................................	11
Highlighting Words in Definitions .............	12
Looking Up Words in Other Books ...........	13
Playing the Games ......................................	14
Digital Book System® ..................................	16
Abbreviations Used ....................................	18
Specifications ..............................................	19
Limited Warranty (U.S. only) ......................	20
Index .............................................................	21

About the Illustrations

Some screen shots in this User’s Manual may vary slightly from what you see on screen. These variations do not mean that this digital book or your Digital Book System is malfunctioning.

2

Key Guide

BACK

CARD

CLEAR

ENTER

HELP

GAMES

LIST

MENU

MORE

ON/OFF

SHIFT

SPACE

SPEC

Backs up; erase a letter; stops highlight. Exits the digital book.

Clears a search.

Enters a word, selects a menu item, or turns on the highlight in entries. Shows a help message.

Shows games menu. Shows inflections. Shows menus. Shows phrases.

Turns the Digital Book System on or off. Shifts keys to type capital letters, etc. Types a space or pages down.

No effect.

CARD

DN

UP

DN

UP

?*

SHIFT ?*

Sends a word to another digital book. Scroll through menus or entries. (At the Entry screen, accents a letter.) Page up or down.

Zoom up or down.

Shows the next or previous listed item.

Shows a headword. (At the Entry screen, types a ? to stand for a letter in word). At the Entry screen, types a to stand for a series of letters in a word.

3

Installing the Digital Book

You must install this digital book before you can use it. Warning: Never install a digital book when the Digital Book System is on. If you do, information entered in any other installed digital book(s) may be permanently erased.

1.Turn off the Digital Book System.

2.Install the digital book into a slot on the back.

3.Press ON/OFF .

4.Turn the wheel on the side of the Digital Book System to adjust its screen contrast.

If the screen is still blank, check the batteries.

5.Press CARD .

6.Press or to highlight the appropriate digital book symbol.

7.Press ENTER .

Resuming Where You Left Off

While using this digital book, you can turn off the Digital Book System at any time. When you turn the Digital Book System on again, you return to the screen that you last viewed.

4

Viewing a Demonstration

Before you start using this digital book, you may want to view a brief demonstration of what it can do.

1.Press

2.Press

CLEAR

MENU

.

to view the main menus.

3.Press the arrow keys to highlight Demo under the Other menu.

4.Press

5.Press

ENTER

CLEAR

to start the demonstration.

to stop the demonstration.

Setting the Shutoff Time

The Shutoff Time is how long the Digital Book System stays on if you forget to turn it off. To change the time, highlight Set Shutoff under the Other menu and press ENTER . Then select a new time or press BACK to keep the current time.

Help is at Hand

You can view a help message at virtually any

screen by pressing HELP . Press	or the DN
key to read the message. Press BACK	to exit it.

To read a summary of how to use this digital book, select Overview under the Other menu.

5

Finding Definitions

The simplest way to find definitions is to enter a word at the Entry screen. At the Entry screen you do not need to type capital letters or accents.

1.Press CLEAR .

2.Type a word (e.g., double).

To erase a letter, press BACK . To type a space, press SPACE .

3. Press ENTER to view its definition(s).

4. Press	, the DN key, or SPACE to read.
5. Press	BACK to go back to the Entry screen.
6. Press	CLEAR to clear the Entry screen.

If You Misspell a Word

Do not worry if you enter a misspelled word at the Entry screen. A list of spelling corrections automatically appears. Highlight a correction and then press ENTER to view its definition.

6

Finding Definitions

Viewing Headwords

Headwords are the main words in dictionary entries. When you are reading an entry, you can view its headword(s) by pressing ? * . Note: You can view a complete menu item by pressing ? * at a menu.

Viewing Next and Previous Items

Some words function as more than one part of speech. When you enter such a word, a message shows how many items (i.e., headwords) the word has in the dictionary. To view the next item, hold and press the DN key. To view a previous item, hold and press the UP key. Note: At other entries, the next and previous items are the next and previous entries, listed alphabetically.

Understanding Dictionary Entries

Each dictionary entry contains a wealth of information. The headword is in bold type, with a superscript number if it has more than one entry in the dictionary. The phonetic spelling of the headword is given in slashes. Then its part of speech is listed, followed by a list of definitions with usage examples in italics and phrases in bold italics.

Note: For a guide to phonetic spellings, select Pron info under the Other menu. For explanations of the abbreviations used in this dictionary, refer to “Abbreviations Used” in this User’s Manual.

7