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Old 04-22-2008, 06:37 PM   #19
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I could see that. My love is pulp so I generally enjoy authors from about mid-century onwards (eg Edgar Allen Poe, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, "Doc" Smith) and I occasionally find words that I don't understand, especially, as you point out, with Haggard where I am displaced in geography as well as in time.

But I think I would prefer on-line searching to just dictionary lookup. For example, eReader Pro gives you Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary and I have to wonder if they have a definition for "belcher" there. They don't seem to in the on-line version.

I guess the dictionary for the Cybook is more comprehensive.
I think eReader allows you to purchase any of several dictionaries.

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