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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Great and yet, not.:
This is what I have been looking for. A travel size gadget that has encyclopedia, dictionary and thesarus. And, this has much more that I found useful and fun. Not including foreign language capabilities, which I did not want as a feature. So, why only 2 stars: there is no backlight on this. In a well lighted room, it is not easy to read. Sitting on an airplane, using a reading light, it is just to darn difficult to read. I'm sorry to say I had to return it.
An outstanding pocket resource:
Compact and well built, this unit has a wealth of information available. Very easy to use and I appreciate the option of changing character size. A back lit feature would be helpful(to me). It's a bargain considering the number of references included.
Extremely useful:
I have been looking to purchase an electronic dictionary for a long time. Initially I was considering the MW and Sharp models. The MW had a limitation that it allowed only 40 words in its list, The sharp didn't have any games or word lists. Then I stumbled onto this model. There were no reviews here, but epinion had a positive one. So I bought it. It is very good. It has a very good dictionary, thesaraus and encyclopedia. Often when I look up a word, there are definions in all the three (dictionary,... more info
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