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Originally Posted by karunaji
But currently there are more speakers with English as a second language than there are native English speakers in the world. And even if they rarely use paper dictionaries, they would surely appreciate an e-reader with a dictionary function enabled.
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Quite so. English is not my first language, and although I only very seldom need a dictionary (I'm at the stage where anything less than a Concise Oxford or Chambers is pretty much useless to me, and I would kill for something like a Websters Unabridged or Shorter Oxford, or, dream of dreams, the OED itself, as a Kindle dictionary...), I certainly find the dictionary of my Kindle very useful when I do use it. Which is often just to check whether I inferred the meaning of a word correctly from context, exactly *because* it's so easy to use. I have replaced the standard Oxford American Dictionary by the Chambers Dictionary, which is the best I have found.
And I have found my thumb twitching on occasion when reading a pbook
