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I too voted no, because I cannot say that I *need* a dictionary on my reader. However, what I would really really like is a dictionary and thesaurus combined.
My reservation about putting a dictionary/thesaurus on an ereader stems from my experiences of reading footnotes on my 505 - highlight the relevant footnote number, hit the button, wait, formatting, formatting, formatting, at last, footnotes page appears, read note, highlight footnote number again, hit the button, short delay, back to text again.
One of my colleagues who is from Poland has bought himself a rather nifty electronic dictionary & thesaurus based on one of the OED editions (plus crossword solver, hangman, etc), for a mere £35. I'm very tempted to follow his example. That would satisfy my wants, without too much interruption of the reading process.
On a related thought, when I was at school, we had a lot of items that were printed as parallel texts - Shakespeare/Chaucer/Beowulf/Homer etc., on the lhs with explication/translation on the rhs. Is this feasible in ebooks?
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