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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Kindle sells a zillion dictionaries and you get choose freely.
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I stand corrected, although there doesn't seem to be that many of the big English dictionaries. Quick search found Oxford Dictionary of English, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary and WordNet3.
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As to the legality of the other dicts floating around, most seem to be PD. Others seem to be screenscraped from commercial products and their legality will vary by country. Dictionaries are essentially databases of facts and in many countries you can't copyright facts. In others you can only copyright the arrangement/organization of data.
Pretty much a gray area.
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It's black enough for this forum to forbid direct links and attachments of said dictionaries. I'd also say that the effort to explain a word in a useful way (to a student, for example) constitutes original work. It's not just a fact you discover if you hear/read a word. However, as said, laws vary country by country. And a man's ethics are his own.