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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can understand Bookeen's commercial decision to only include a French-language dictionary in the Odyssey, given that their primary market is the French-speaking countries of Europe.
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How is having a dictionary in your own language preferable? Most French people will know most French words (it's useful for rare words, but not so essential), but they will definitely need an English dictionary to look up English words in English books - correct me if I'm wrong.... Especially given the French people's generally poor performance in foreign languages in general.
(Of course what would be even more useful for them is an English-French-English dictionary, but an English-English could also be useful)
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because far more people read books in their own language than in a foreign language. I make frequent use of the dictionary on my Kindle.
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But really: when you get engrossed in a book and there's a word you don't understand, do you really stop reading and look up the word? I never ever ever do that. It would destroy the joy of reading. I just guess from the context and go on. I tried that once, in my teens, when I was trying to read "Moby Dick" and it had all those nautical words. Needless to say, I never went past chapter one, it was so boring, like a school assignment. Reading is supposed to be pleasure, rapture, ecstasy and totally being carried away. Even with non-fiction. Searching for words and annotating is only good for study purposes, cannot think of any other use!