Hello Everyone,
I'm hoping that someone can provide a recommendation for a comprehensive electronic dictionary that is not reliant on internet access. I own an android smart phone and a nook color. The nook's embedded dictionary is terrible! Android Market and Amazon Apps offer quite a few free and paid for dictionaries. Most free ones have been insufficient and I'm leery of paying 30.00 for OED from a third party software company, especially when the reviews have been poor.
I frequently don't have access to the web, so I need something that I can reference off line. Tap and hold on the word would be grand but not essential. I'm happy to work between the two devices since I carry both of them regularly. Additionally, I'm happy to pay a goodly amount of money for the dictionary so long as I'm assured it is comprehensive. Goodly meaning anywhere from zero to about seventy US dollars.
I've done some extensive google, yahoo and mobileread searches and I've come up with only complaints about dictionaries and no real solution.
The funny thing is I don't claim to have that great of a vocabulary or need for definitions of strange words. I do require that the dictionary goes beyond a third grade comprehension and isn't redundant. In example, I recently downloaded Mantano reader, which claims the ability to load multiple dictionaries. When I went to their settings I was able to download an English dictionary. I did and I pulled up a book and randomly clicked on the word "willows." The definition I was provided was the closest match "willowy" and the definitions provided were "1. having or bordered by willows. 2. lithe and slender." Neither were informative (especially considering the original context).
Sorry for the long message but I'm just hoping against hope that I don't have lug around a paper copy dictionary everywhere I go.
Thanks for any recommendations.
Dawn
