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Originally Posted by Sirtel
You wouldn't, but that doesn't mean no one else would. While I don't highlight or annotate, I use the dictionary occasionally when there's some rarely used or obscure word. I read fiction mostly in English, but English is not my native language. Hence the need for dictionary.
Many people read for research or academic purposes and they certainly highlight or annotate, or both.
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I noted when in Holland years ago, circa 1972, that book stores seemed to have books in 4 languages. Languages were Dutch, English, French and German. The Dutch are highly multilingual and Holland is a small enough country that apparently relatively few books are published in Dutch. The same true in Estonia? Anything specialized or most fiction is going to only be available in Russian or English?