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One thing I've certainly found is that having a good dictionary instantly available on my CyBook makes me look up the meaning of all sorts of words that I otherwise wouldn't have bothered doing, which is very useful when reading older books, which have a lot of "technical vocabulary" to do with areas like horse-drawn transport which have fallen out of use. Eg, previously I would have just accepted that a "Chaise" and a "Phaeton" were both types of horse-drawn carriage - now I'd look them up to find out what the difference actually is.
[In case you were wondering, a "chaise" is a light-weight 2-wheel open carriage for one or two people, drawn by 1 horse (the kind of thing you drove around the park in on a Sunday afternoon; a "phaeton" is a larger 4-wheel open carriage drawn by a pair of horses.]
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