Editorial Review:Product Description:Britannica Concise Encyclopedia offers more than 25,000 entries prepared by the editors of Encyclopedia Britannica. The encyclopedia provides quick answers to everyday questions about history, science, business, politics, people, literature and the arts, popular culture, geography, and much more. The new edition of the Concise Oxford Thesaurus provides comprehensive, reliable assistance for letter writing, business writing, studying, creative writing, or solving crosswords. Included are more than 400 lists with additional information on a wide range of subjects. More than 333,000 alternative words along with over 4,000,000 synonyms links cover everyday vocabulary, as well as more unusual and specialist words. The new edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary provides description of the English language. It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including 1,700 new words. The dictionary offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, and scientific and technical vocabulary, as well as providing hundreds of helpful notes on grammar and usage. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Quotations maintains its extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations. It contains over 9,000 quotations from more than 2,500 authors, and with both author names and quotations keywords searchable, offers the best possible access to this rich and fascinating material. Spellchecker: 130,000 word phonetic spellchecker. Crossword solvers: 7 indispensable solvers to help you with crosswords, anagrams, abbreviations, letter changes, finding phrases, searching definitions, and encyclopedia searches. 11 great vocabulary-building word games to challenge your command of the English language. Calculator and Converters: A full function calculator with Memory and % commands is included, together with over 190 invaluable metric/imperial & currency converters. 2 AAA batteries included.
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Great, But Expensive
I've had my Seiko ER8000 for 1.5 years now, and I love it! It's the first electronic dictionary I ever had, but I find myself using the electronic encyclopedia and thesaurus almost as much as the dictionary. It's extremely easy to use, and I think students would find it invaluable.
I actually came online today to buy another one so I could have one at work and one at home. Wow, it sure is expensive! I bought mine on-sale last year from Sharper Image for less than $100. I guess that was quite a sale! Maybe I'll shop around a little for a better price, otherwise, I'll be spending a bunch of money on my second ER8000 at Amazon.com.
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great buy
I've had mine for 4 yrs. still works like new.I am a voracious reader and I have never had any problem finding the information that I was looking for.That's my read.I have no clue what the other reviewer is talking about?Bumpkin.That's a rather odd choice.The definitions are essentially the same from both products.You see one has to look futher before assuming anything.Bumpkin>Thesaurus>Yokel,peasant,provincial,rustic,country cousin,countryman/woman;Irish informal culchie;N.American informal hayseed,hillbilly,hick;Austral. informal bushy.So what's the rub?
Choice is a wonderful thing.Just wanted to clarify this product is superb and I believe cheaper now than when I bought it.All the best.In all fairness I like accurate information.That's the core of the matter.
Brian D. Fitzpatrick
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DO NOT GET THIS ONE!
If You're looking to buy a handheld Encyclopdia and Dictionary, DO NOT get this one. This model from Seiko not only has less dictionary definitiions, it also has less entry's (compared that to of the Sharp handheld E550 OXFORD Dictionary).
For example, SHARP's word:
"Bumpkin: N. An unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside: She thought Tom a bit of a country bumpkin. -Derritives Bumpkinish -ADJ. -Origin late 16th cent.: perhaps from Dutch boomken 'little tree' or Middle Dutch bommekijn 'little barell' used to denote a dumpy person."
and Seiko has:
"Bumpkin N. An unsophisticated country person. -Derrivitives -Bumpkinish -Adjective -Origin c16: Perh. from Du. bookmen 'little tree' or MDu. bommekijn 'little barrell', denoting a dumpy person."
That's it! As you can see the Seiko's Oxford definitions as it is stated are hard to read and misunderstandingly short as well as the definitions of "Encyclopdia Brittanica" in the which that I looked up, could not comprehend anything! The aaa battery operation and consumption of Seiko is good and easy like that of the Sharp. But as for the whole part, I only use and am gracefull for the Oxford's Sharp E550.
