>> 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.

Obviously I can't remember exactly which dictionary we had at school, 
but it was a big thick thing from either Oxford or Cambridge or what 
have you. And, as I said, it failed to contain the word I wanted. And 
that was a proper reference dictionary, which cost *money*. It seems 
highly implausible to me that a freebie dictionary would be more 
comprehensive.

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