04-22-2003, 03:52 PM | #1 |
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Oxford Dictionary?
This is something I've been looking for, and it would be interesting to see whether anyone else has found it. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language in eBook format. I have seen it in the book store a few times, but it's in twenty volumes, and costs a hideous amount, so I'm not interested on two fronts. I've also seen it on CD, and it's still got a rather ugly price tag. I keep thinking that someone will eventually put it on a handheld and make the price reasonable.
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04-24-2003, 02:31 PM | #3 |
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Anyone who would like to share? I have other dictionaries, but none as good as the Oxford (Noah Pro, Pocket Lingo, Dictionary To Go, MS Dictionary and others). Anyone interested?
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The best and largest (160,000 words) dictionary I know (and own and use) is the Webster's New World College. It can be used with PalmReaderPro only and is available at the Palm Digital webiste. In addition to pronunciation, it gives etymologies, which I consider a terrific mnemonic device. It has one serious drawback, namely that it cannot be used in any other application. This means that every time you need to use it, you must open up PalmReaderPro. radleyp
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04-26-2003, 08:24 PM | #6 |
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The Oxford Dictionary available from MobiPocket is nothing like the full Oxford Dictionary of the English Language. It has fewer words and less detail on each word.
I use the A-Lex dictionary, which seems pretty good lexically and has very good functionality - it can be run as a DA and can find synonyms and cross references very easily. It can be downloaded from http://abstractrd.home.attbi.com |
04-28-2003, 04:24 PM | #7 |
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I currently use Merriam Webster's Collegiate through Palm Reader Pro, both because of the detail, and because of the integration with Palm Reader Pro. It's nice to be reading a book and be able to tap and hold a word to look it up in the dictionary.
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I too use the PRP merriam-webster collegiate dictionary, probably the best $25 i've spent on palm software.
of course, i bought it with the PDM gift certificate my parents bought me for christmas last year but, whatever. Anyway, it's awesome. it has every word i've ever needed to look up, and it's faster than i'd expected. I'm thinking that PDM sped up the PRP dictionary engine altogether, simply because the mid-sized dictionary i had when PRP came out was a little slower than i liked, but now lookups are speedy enough for me (i'm running a 33mhz clie), so that makes me happy. but, yeah, it's great. highly recommended all around. |
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Hi all,
With the Oxford English Dictionary weighing in at 1.7 GB I don’t think we will see it in eBook format anytime soon. |
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1.7GB what? Text file?
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In fact it mainly depends on the picture size (pictures cannot be compressed as text).
I assume this 1.7 GB file contains pictures, or it will be compressed efficiently with the new compression algorithm (29.4 MB for the Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary gives a 4 MB eBook). We already published a 240 MB (XHTML size) eBook. The result was 22 MB (including few icons/pictures). Therefore, such an eBook could be sold on a card like the Griffith's, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, or the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Quote:
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I made a very solemn promise to a family friend not to use Websters [long story] but do like Random House. As a still-learnint etemologist, what's good now?
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07-13-2012, 09:42 AM | #15 |
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Perhaps you overlooked the fact when replying, but this thread is almost 10 years old. There would seem little to be gained in dragging it up from the dead.
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