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Originally Posted by MissNomer
I'm with you bwaldron. I'm currently working my way through the first S.S. van Dine Omnibus (from Mobileread--Thanks HarryT) and it seems that I'm looking up at least one word in every chapter. As you said, some of his words have never made it to my repertoire; however, a lot of them were there years ago but have fallen away from disuse. Sometimes I feel like I'm studying for my SATs all over again!
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Continuous learning keeps the brain agile!
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Originally Posted by ChaosInc
Having an option of using a dictionary I think would be good idea, if it came with one and didn't have to be bought separately.
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The Kindle2 makes it even easier to look up a word -- just put the cursor on it, and the definition appears at the bottom of the screen. I rarely used in on the K1, but this makes it more straightforward and too simple to ignore!