Palm Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus (P10935U)

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• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000DK69M
• Item model number: P10935U
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #48 in Software > Education & Reference > Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
  • #56 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > Foreign Language Dictionaries
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 29, 2003

Product Description

Write a lot? Write it right! Keep the complete new Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary the bigger, better, new 11th Edition plus the comprehensive Franklin Thesaurus at your fingertips. When you need to craft the perfect memo, winning presentation, or definitive report when traveling on the road, simply slip this "plug 'n play" card into your handheld or mobile phone to find the right word, every time. Be more accurate, more persuasive, more effective.

Customer Reviews

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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good Dictionary Bad Software, January 8, 2004

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Tod Gentille (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Palm Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus (P10935U) (Office Product)

I bought this dictionary for use with a Palm T3. The dictionary is pretty good and reasonably comprehensive. However, it uses the MobiPocket 4.6 as the reader software. It never tells you that anywhere, I just happened to download this sofware earlier and recognized it. This reader is horrible for a dictionary. When you try to make the letter "t" or "i" using Grafitti it triggers the go back action. Also if you try to delete a letter it triggers the go back action. It also doesn't take advantage of the full screen. These shortcomings seem to all be addressed in the new 4.7 reader but it is not clear yet if I have to buy the new reader (which costs just about as much as this card) and if I do if I can even use the new reader with the card's databases. It was inexcusable to marry this dictionary to an inappropriate reader and furthermore to not disclose that anywhere.

22 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What is a MobiReader?, April 19, 2004

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jlusa (Glastonbury, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Palm Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus (P10935U) (Office Product)

Sure, the dictionary has a lot of words, but the problem is finding them. The search screen is extremely jumpy when using the graffiti interface. I can rarely get more than a couple letters in the search box before the program jumps off to the wrong word.

Now my graffiti skills are pretty good; I don't have this kind of problem with other Palm programs. The dictionary's search program (MobiReader?) doesn't want to wait for t's to be crossed and i's to be dotted. So a search for 'tea' and you'll end up with the first word starting with 'L'. I've resorted to using the popup keyboard screen to enter words. Not what I've come to expect from Palm-based programs.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, but inconvenient, February 15, 2006

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Mr. Dayton Livingston "- Dayton" (Phoenix, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Palm Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Franklin Thesaurus (P10935U) (Office Product)

-- This dictionary & thesaurus is actually pretty good, and has features that others seem to lack. Very handy is the fact that once you look up a word, you can tap any word in that definiton, and look up THAT word in the dictionary or thesaurus as well. That's wonderful stuff! Plus there's other options on that pop-up menu that I haven't fully explored.
-- HOWEVER! For quick look-ups, it's a bit of a hassle. You have to go through multiple screens. And as has been said in other reviews, the graffitti interface is pretty touchy.
-- MY MAIN GRIPE however, has nothing to do with that. I generally keep a large memory card in my Palm. So every time I have to look something up, I have to pull that card, and put in this one. Not only is that a real hassle, it also invites mishaps such as dropping cards (into soup, for instance), and causes excessive wear and tear on the card mechanism if you use it a lot, which I do.
-- I have therefore gone to the Oxford dictionary, which while lacking in some features and having a smaller word list, is much quicker and easier to use for fast look-ups, and resides comfortably on the memory card so I don't have to swap. I keep this one on had for deeper researches, but it's fairly rare that I use it anymore.