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Originally Posted by pgilster
True. And if you don't have a good library available, you'll wind up paying Oxford through the nose for access to the digital OED. I've always been struck by how inept Oxford has been in handling its texts in digital format. I own the crazy, micro-OED with the magnifier, but will someday buy the set in hardcover because I can't use the blasted thing.
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I have the ‘shorter'
Oxford English Dictionary iPad app with over 600,000 words! It is excellent, and contains everything in the one with the magnifying glass. I remember my mother used to have that, and it had a little drawer for the rectangular magnifying glass.
I don’t know if you have an iPad, but the app might be easier than using the hardcover version - these books are super heavy and the paper is thin like cigarette paper. Probably an iPad plus the app would be cheaper than the hardcover as well.
ETA: And the Kobo English dictionary is very good, as is the French, and the French to English. And I’m a dictionary fiend, so am very hard to please that way.