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It's attractive enough to leave out. This was my husband's Christmas present. Now I've ordered a similar one, but a different brand, for french-english, and hope I like it as well as he likes his. I chose it because it had so many excellent reviews, and I'm adding my thumbs up. He loves it and is able to look up all those rarely used words he doesn't know, and he doesn't have to leave the comfort of his arm chair or lift a heavy cumbersome device.It's easy to use, I can even operate it. It's fast.
It is user friendly, it has the neat function of keeping a history of the words you look up (with really difficulty words I can't remember what they mean so all I have to do it go to the history to find the word in the recorded list), and other nice features. The overall package is very nice: keys on the keypad, the shell is well-made and shuts well, etc. I normally only review something if I really like it and can give it 5 stars. I am quite sure you will not be disappointed with it. I am going to get another one for my wife, and if Sharp decides to upgrade with a light for the screen and clearer font, I would gladly pay the price. I am going this 4 stars simply because Sharp could have elevated the quality of this dictionary in terms of the readability of the screen (it looks a little like the old dot matrix print) and could have put a light in the screen so you could read the dictionary in a dimly lighted area. BUT, this is a very good dictionary and as far as I know the best on the market.
I bought a second one for my son. If you are going to purchase an electronic dictionary, this is the best, most complete and most applicable to all kinds of reading material.
I would recommend if for anyone. I bought if for my daughter and she loves it.
Now I don't need to sit near a computer to use Dictionary.com or lug around a pocket dictionary that probably won't have all the complicated words I need anyway. How did I go without it before. I'm a grad student and reading is my life for the next few years, so this little gadget has been such a handy dandy tool.
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