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BOOKMAN
EXPANDABLE ELECTRONIC BOOK

New International Version

HOLY BIBLE
and Complete Concordance
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Electronic Publishers

USER’S GUIDE
NIV-440

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!
BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable electronic reference with a built-in book and
a slot in the back for more books.
With this New International Version of
the Holy Bible, you can quickly find any

Bible verse, as well as the occurrences
of any word and phrase in the Bible. You
can also place bookmarks for personalized reference.
To learn how to use other BOOKMAN
books, read their User’s Guides.

Key Guide ...................................................................................... 3
Installing Batteries ......................................................................... 4
Installing Book Cards ..................................................................... 4
Selecting Books ............................................................................. 5
Using the Color Keys ..................................................................... 5
Changing Settings .......................................................................... 6
Viewing a Demonstration ............................................................... 6
Reading the Bible ........................................................................... 7
Finding Bible Verses ...................................................................... 8
Finding Words ................................................................................ 9
Finding Phrases ........................................................................... 10
Highlighting Search Words ........................................................... 11
Expanding Your Searches ............................................................. 11
Viewing Footnotes ....................................................................... 12
Using Bookmarks ......................................................................... 13
Resetting BOOKMAN ................................................................... 15
Specifications .............................................................................. 15
Index ............................................................................................ 17

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Key Guide
Function Keys
CLEAR

Clears a request.

BACK

MENU

Shows the main menus.

CAP

MORE

(red) Expands a search.

MARK

(green) Places a bookmark.

NOT E

(yellow) Shows a footnote.

HELP

(blue) Shows bookmark list.

SPACE

LIST
CARD
ON/OFF

ENTER

✻

Exits the book you are reading.

?

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

.‘

Other Keys
Backs up (e.g., erases letters).
Shifts . ‘ to type an
apostrophe.
Enters a request or
selects a menu item.
Shows help messages.
Types a space or pages down.
Shows the verse number.
Types a colon or apostrophe.

Direction Keys
Move in indicated direction.
UP/DN Page up or down.

␣ ➤ Understanding Color Keys

Star Key Combinations*
Sends a word between books.
✩ + UP Show the next or
or DN
previous chapter or match.
✩ +
Go to start or end of a menu
chapter, or help message.
or
✩ + Q... Shifts the top row of letters
to type numbers.
✩ + S Shows section titles.

The color keys (red, green, yellow,
and blue) perform the functions
listed above only for the BOOKMAN book described in this User’s
Guide.
Other books have their own color
key functions, which are labelled on
their book cards and listed in their
User’s Guides. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”

✩ +

CARD

* Hold ✩ while pressing the other key.

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Installing Batteries

Installing Book Cards

Your BOOKMAN model NIV-640 uses
four AAA batteries. Here is how to install or replace them.
Warning: When the batteries lose
power or are removed from your
BOOKMAN, information that you entered in its built-in book and in an installed book card will be erased.

Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turned on. If you do, information that
you entered in its built-in book as well
as in any other installed book cards,
will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book card
with the notches in the slot.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
2. Slide off its battery cover in
the direction of the triangle.
3. Install the batteries as shown
on the diagram in the battery compartment.
4. Replace the battery cover.

4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off

➤ Removing Book Cards

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

Warning: When you remove a
book card to install another, information that you entered in the removed
book card will be erased.

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Selecting Books

Using the Color Keys

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

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys
on the top row of your BOOKMAN
change their functions according to
which book you have selected.
If you have selected the built-in book,
the color keys function as labeled on
the BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have
selected a book card, the color keys
function as labeled on that card.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.
2. Press CARD .

These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight
the book you want.

4. Press

ENTER

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to select it.

➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on screen. This does not
mean that your BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

Remember, when you’ve selected a
book card, the color keys function as
labeled on that card, not as on the
keyboard.

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Changing Settings

Viewing a Demonstration

You can adjust the type size, shutoff
time, and screen contrast. The type size
changes the number of lines of text appearing on screen. The shutoff time is
how long BOOKMAN stays on if you
forget to turn it off.

Before you start using your BOOKMAN, you can view a brief demonstration of what it can do.
When no book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, a demonstration automatically appears once you turn it on. To stop
the demonstration, press CLEAR . To disable it, press MENU and then select Disable Demo from the Other menu. To
re-enable it, select Enable Demo.
When a book card is installed in your
BOOKMAN, select View Demo from
the Other menu to view the demo.

1. Press MENU .
2. Press the arrow keys to
highlight the Other menu.

3. Highlight Set Type Size, Set
Shutoff, or Set Contrast.
4. Press ENTER .
5. Highlight a setting.
6. Press ENTER to select it.

➤ Help is Always at Hand

➤ A Quick Contrast Change

➤ Just Follow the Arrows

You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing
or SPACE to read
HELP . Press
it. To exit help, press BACK .
To read a tutorial about this book,
select Tutorial under Other.
The flashing arrows at the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move through
menus or view more text.

When the NIV-640 is the selected
book, you can also change the screen
contrast by pressing CLEAR and then
or .
repeatedly pressing

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Reading the Bible

Reading the Bible

The simplest way to use this Bible is to
select a book from the Old or New
Testament and then read its text.
Each book has sections with titles. You
can view section titles from the Old or
New menu or directly from verses.

➤ Understanding Text Markings

1. Press MENU .
2. Press the arrow keys to a
book title under Old or New.
(e.g., Romans under New).

➤ Where in the Bible Am I?

• A ¶ indicates a new paragraph.
• Italics indicate section titles.
• Verse numbers are boldfaced at
the start of verses.

At any Bible verse, you can view its
book, chapter, and verse number by
pressing ? ✻ .

3. Hold ✩ and press S to view
its section titles.
4. Highlight a section title.

➤ From Verses to Sections
When Bible verses are in view, you
can view a book’s section titles by
holding ✩ and pressing S.

5. Press ENTER to view the section.
6. Press the direction keys to read.
7. Press MENU to return to the
menus or press CLEAR to clear
your selection.

Then highlight the section that you
want and press ENTER to view it.

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Finding Bible Verses

Finding Bible Verses
To go directly to a specific Bible verse,
enter its book title, chapter number, and
verse number.
If you enter only a book title and chapter
number, you go to the start of the chapter. If you enter only a book title, you go
to the start of that book.

➤ Verse Finding Tips
• Type abbreviations instead of
complete book titles (e.g., PS for
Psalms or EPH for Ephesians ).
• Type an Arabic or Roman numeral
before books of more than one
volume (e.g., 1 Samuel or
II Kings ). To type a number, hold
✩ and press a numbered key.
• Some book titles, such as Numbers and John , are also valid
search words. When you search
for one of these ambiguous
words, a menu like this appears:

1. Press CLEAR .
2. Type a book title, chapter
number, and verse number.

To type a number, hold ✩ and press
a numbered key. Type a colon or a
space between the chapter and verse
number. To type a colon, press . ‘ .
To erase a character, press BACK .
3. Press ENTER .

Then select the item that you want.
➤ Searching for Sections
You can search for a section by entering one or more words from a
section title of a book. For example,
enter beatitudes and you find the
start of the Sermon on the Mount.

4. Press the direction keys to read.
5. Press CLEAR to clear your request.

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Finding Words

Finding Words

6. Select a book under Old or
New to view matches in it.
7. Press CLEAR to clear your
request.

Just as if you were using a concordance,
you can search for almost any word in
this Bible. Simply enter search words to
find their occurrences, or matches. After
a word search, only those books with
matches are listed under Old and New.
1. Press CLEAR .
2. Type up to five words.

3. Press

ENTER

➤ If You Misspell a Word
If you enter a misspelled word, or
enter a word not in this Bible, spelling corrections appear. Select a correction from the list. Or press
BACK to change your request.

to view the first match.

➤ If You Do Not Find Words
If you enter two or more words not
in this Bible, you see this menu:

Bullets mark the matches.
4. Hold ✩ and repeatedly press
DN to view the next matches.
To view a previous match, hold ✩
and press the UP key.
5. Press MENU .

To expand the search to include inflections and synonyms of your
words, press ENTER .
To change your search word(s),
select Change Your Request.

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Finding Phrases

Finding Phrases
You can search for phrases—adjacent
or nearly adjacent words in a particular
order—by selecting an ordered search
and a narrow search width.

➤ About Ordered Searches
When you select Ordered Search,
you find words only in the order that
you enter them. For example, an ordered search for holy spirit does
not find spirit holy.

1. Press MENU .
2. Select Ordered Search from
the Search menu.

➤ About Search Widths
The search widths set how far apart
search words can be in matches.
Search Width Distance
Close Together nearly adjacent
Not as Close
a few words apart
Far Apart
many words apart
Very Far Apart
up to a few verses

3. Press MENU .
4. Select Set Search Width from
the Search menu.

➤ Unsearchable Words

5. Select Close Together.
6. Enter a phrase (e.g., holy
spirit).
7. Hold ✩ and press the DN key
repeatedly to view the next
matches. To view previous
ones, hold ✩ and press UP.
8. Press CLEAR when done.

These words are too common to
search for, either by entering them
or by highlighting them in verses: a,
an, and, are, as, be, but, by, for,
from, he, her, him, his, I, in, is, it, me,
my, not, O, of, our, out, shall, she,
that, the, their, them, they, to, up,
upon, us, was, we, were, with, you.

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Highlighting Search Words
You can also search for a word by highlighting it in a verse. Try this example.
1. Go to Romans 3:5.
To learn how, see “Finding Bible Verses.”
2. Press ENTER to start the
highlight.

To turn the highlight off, press BACK .
3. Press the arrow keys to
highlight righteousness.

Expanding Your Searches
You can expand your word searches
up to three times to find inflections,
synonyms, and similar words.
1. Press CLEAR .
2. Enter a word (e.g., belief).

3. Press MORE to expand the
search.

4. Press MORE twice to fully
expand the search.
4. Press ENTER to search for the
highlighted word.
5. Hold ✩ and repeatedly press
the DN key to view the next
matches.
6. Press MENU to view those
books with matches.
7. Press CLEAR when done.

5. Press MENU to view the
menus.
6. Select a book to view
matches in it.
7. Press CLEAR when done.

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Expanding Your Searches

Viewing Footnotes
Whenever you see a after a word,
that word has a footnote. Try this example.

➤ Understanding Expansions
Each time that you expand a search,
similar words are added to your
search and more matches are found.
The first time that you press
MORE , inflections are added (e.g.,
believe and believed to belief).
The second time that you press
MORE , compound and related
words are added (e.g., believer and
unbelief to belief).
The third time that you press
MORE , synonyms are added (e.g.,
understand and surely to belief).
When you search for a phrase,
words similar to any or all your
search words are found.
Sometimes pressing MORE only
once does not expand a search because your search word(s) have no
inflections in this Bible. In that case,
press MORE a second and a third
time to expand your search.

1. Go to 2 Kings 7:3.
To learn how, see “Finding Bible Verses.”

Notice the footnote marker.
2. Press NOTE .

3. Press the direction keys to
read the footnote.
4. Press BACK to go back to the
verse.
➤ Understanding Footnotes
The footnotes in this Bible were
written by the translators of the
NIV. These footnotes provide alternative translations, describe textual
variants, and define obscure words.

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Viewing Footnotes
➤ When More Than One
Footnote Marker Appears
Sometimes more than one appears on screen. In that case,
pressing NOTE displays the footnote of the first .
To view footnotes of subsequent
markers, press ENTER and then the
arrow keys to highlight a .

Press ENTER to view its footnote.
Then press BACK to go back to
the verse.

Using Bookmarks
It’s easy to place up to 30 bookmarks at
verses for quick reference.
1. Press MARK at any verse
to place a bookmark.

The
marks its placement.
2. Press LIST to view your
bookmark list.
3. Press
to highlight a verse.

This is a sample bookmark list.
4. Press ENTER to view it.

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Using Bookmarks

Sending Words Between Books
This BOOKMAN can send words between certain books.
To send a word, you must first install a
book card in your BOOKMAN, and that
book card must be able to send or receive
words. To learn if a book card can send or
receive words, read its User’s Guide.

➤ Deleting a Bookmark
To delete a bookmark, first press
LIST . Then highlight a verse on
your bookmark list. Then press D to
delete it.
➤ Deleting All Bookmarks
Caution: When you delete all your
bookmarks as described below, the
menus are reset to their original
settings: Ordered Search off, Close
Together search width, 9 screen
contrast, Medium type size, and 2
Minutes shutoff time.
To delete all your bookmarks at one
time, first turn off BOOKMAN.
Then hold ON/OFF and press CLEAR
to reset it.

1. Highlight a word in this book.

To highlight a word in text, press
ENTER and then press the arrow keys.
To highlight a word in a list, press
the arrow keys.
2. Hold ✩ and press CARD .
3. Highlight the other book.
4. Press ENTER .
The word that you highlighted appears in the other book.
5. Press ENTER to look up the word.

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Specifications

Resetting BOOKMAN
If the BOOKMAN keyboard fails to respond, or if its screen performs erratically, first press CLEAR and then press
ON/OFF twice. If nothing happens, follow
the steps below to reset it.
Warning: Pressing the reset button with
more than very light pressure may permanently disable your BOOKMAN. In addition, resetting your BOOKMAN unit
erases settings and information entered
into its built-in book, and in any installed
books.

Model NIV-640
• Batteries: 4 AAA 1.5-volt
• Size: 14 x 2.5 x 10.3 cm.
• Weight: 6 oz. without batteries
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the following two conditions: (1) This device may
not cause harmful interference; and (2) This device
must accept any interference received, including
interference that may cause undesired operation.
ISBN 1-56712-139-X

1. Hold CLEAR and press ON/OFF .
If nothing happens, try Step 2.
2. Use a paper clip to gently press
BOOKMAN’s reset button.
The reset button is recessed in a pinsized hole on the back of your
BOOKMAN. Look for it on the battery
cover or near the book card slot.
➤ Troubleshooting Tips
• Make sure your book card, if any,
is installed correctly.
• Check that the book card’s metal
contacts are dirt- and dust-free.

This unit may change operating modes due to
Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this
unit can be re-established by pressing the reset
key, ON/OFF , or by removing/replacing batteries.

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Limited Warranty (U.S. only)
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Index
? key 7
¶ 7
Arrow keys 6
Auto-resume feature 4
Batteries, installing 4
Book Cards
care of 15
installing 4
removing 4
selecting in BOOKMAN 5
viewing demonstration in 6
Bookmarks
deleting 14
placing 13
Colons, typing 3, 8
Color keys
functions of 3
general use of 3, 5
Contrast, changing 6, 7
Copyrights 16
Deleting bookmarks 14
Direction keys 3
End of chapter markers 7
Expanding searches
after no matches found 9
levels of 12

FCC notice 16
Footnotes 12
Function keys 3
Help messages, viewing 6
Italics, meaning of 7
Keys
color (red, green, yellow, blue)
3, 5
Direction keys 3
Function keys 3
Star key combinations 3
Misspellings, correcting 9
MORE key 11, 12
New menu 7
Numbers, typing 3
Old menu 7
Ordered search 10
Other menu 6
Patents 16
Phrases, finding 10
Resetting 15
Screen contrast 6, 7
Search widths 10
Searching for
phrases 10
verses 8

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Index
Typing
colons 3, 8
numbers 3, 8
Viewing
Bible verses 8
footnotes 12
help messages 6
menus 7
section titles 7
Warranty 16
Word Searches
expansions 11, 12
ordered searches 10
search widths 10
unsearchable words 10

words
by entering them 9
by highlighting them 11
in other books 14
Section titles
searching for words in 8
viewing from menus and verses 7
Sending words 14
Shutoff time, changing 6
Specifications 16
Spelling correction 9
Star key, use of 3
Text markings, understanding 7
Trademarks 16
Troubleshooting tips 15
Type size, changing 6

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