On 18/01/2011 9:14 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>> dictionary is handy - just double tap on a word and it pulls it up.
>>
>> I find myself reading comments in net news or blogs, and missing the
>> ability to just point at a questionable word and pull up the dictionary.
>
> Surely the vast, vast majority of words you'd actually want to look up
> aren't even in the dictionary?
>
> Obviously I can't find an example now that I want one, but Thunderbird's
> dictionary is missing huge numbers of really quite common words - and it
> isn't even a real "dictionary", it's just a word list. Similarly, when I
> was at school I tried to look up "indefatigable" in the school's (paper)
> dictionary, and it didn't exist. What on Earth makes you think that an
> e-reader would have a more complete dictionary?

Because it has!
The Sony has both the Oxford Dictionary of English and the New Oxford 
American Dictionary.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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