I feel your pain. :-) One good news item is Amazon has been really good about returning an ebook if I have a problem with it or not what I expected. The included Oxford 3rd ed is very, VERY good---as a 1 volume dictionary. Problem is any time you need more information, or you hit a weird word say in Shakespeare, it's never quite comprehensive enough. I would seriously pay a moderately hefty price for a nice OED app. But given it has 20+ volumes, and the Kindle has limited processing power, not sure how they'd deal with the problem of looking up words if they have to chop up the dictionary content into multiple files. It could be done, but they'd have to do fancy indexing, preloading of files, blah blah blah, in order to keep the definitions ready-at-hand and coming up quickly when you select a word. Doable, but hard. And maybe not much demand, only from word nerds like us. :-) Which is probably why they haven't done it yet.