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Originally Posted by Jellby
Surely, we've lived tens of years without dictionaries in our readers, so we don't really need them...
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. We haven't really had ebook readers for tens of years so that doesn't really apply.
I had many a school book with a glossary in the back as a short cut dictionary (somebody thought we needed them). As far as pleasure reading goes, it's been traditional to go get a dictionary to look up words you don't know. eBook readers are not traditional (but can be close if one chooses), so why not have built in dictionaries.