OEDear ...

[blamebrampton]

I accidentally attended a book sale today, but was very restrained and only purchased language books that I actually need for my appalling French and Italian, and a couple of history tomes, which are [Poll #1580212]And lil, thank you for your comment! I had to delete and start again because the poll was not working for me, hope it does this time!

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[glorafin.livejournal.com]

Now that's a neat thing to possess. I had no idea that such a dictionary existed in English. I wish it was (were?) possible to browse some pages online, just to have an idea of how long I'll be able to resist its lure. :/

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's basically nine pages of the original, squished and tiled onto one large page (pretty much A3 sized).

I nearly bought one when I first moved to Aus, but I was not staying. It was only $200, damnation! Now I am wondering if I perhaps should not buy the CD-ROM version as it will take up less space and is cheaper ...

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit old-fashioned. I don't like CD-ROMs. Nothing will ever replace for me the pleasure of browsing through the pages of a book. No hard disk crashing, no windows freezing.. Just plain old paper and leather... Yummy. :)

Still, I hadn't looked properly at the price it was sold for, which is indeed insane. You can buy it new for much less than that on Amazon for instance.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0198612583/

And it looks like at first view that the shipping costs aren't that outrageous either.

[glorafin.livejournal.com]

And it looks like at first view that the shipping costs aren't that outrageous either.

Jesus.... I really need that dictionary. :/