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Old 04-21-2011, 08:13 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Papi View Post
I just checked the dictionaries available for the Kindle on amazon.com...God, why is the selection so poor ? I was tempted to switch from Sony to Kindle due to the ability of the latter to add dictionary, only to discover there is no French dictionary, no German dictionary, no French to German etc. Almost everything is from or to English translation dictionary, plus OED, etc. Basically what I already have with my Sony eReader. It seems to me dictionary lookup is one of the most obvious advantage of eReading, but I guess publishers don't get it, or the market is too small.
Amazon includes an American dictionary on Amazon.com, a British Dictionary on Amazon.co.uk and now the "Duden Universalwörterbuch" on Amazon.de
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