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Old 05-20-2009, 03:59 PM   #43
Alisa
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And how strong must a need be to vote yes?

Surely, we've lived tens of years without dictionaries in our readers, so we don't really need them...
I agree. I answered yes because I require one. I think if you're going to bring computing power and documents together, dictionary lookup and search are baseline features that you should include.

Yes, I can get up and grab my paper dictionary but part of the reason I'm spending hundreds of dollars on a device is to meaningfully improve my reading experience. I buy plenty of things I don't need. I don't even need an ebook reader. I may not need a built in dictionary but in my opinion, a reader without one is not worth my money.
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