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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I'd say that if dictionary look up is that important to you then you should probably be heading back to school.
Seriously, if you really enjoy reading enough to consider shelling out serious money on a dedicated reading device then I would expect you would have read enough to not be stumped by words often enough to justify needing a dictionary by your side.
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Rather arrogant, that remark.
I wasn't impressed by the Kindles built in dictionary until I started reading more. Thought I knew just about every word or could infer their meanings by use in a sentence.
Read many pd books lately? From Doyle to Christie to Wells, there are many words that haven't been used for decades. Even before my time.
Even in contemporary reading, most of us occasionally run across words we aren't familiar with.
Instead of just ignoring them, we like to know their meanings.