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DiscountDelight - Franklin Speaking 11th Collegiate Dictionary
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List Price: $99.99
Our Price: $84.95
Your Save: $ 15.04 ( 15% )
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Manufacturer: Franklin Electronics
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Batteries Included: 1
Batteries: 2
Battery Description: 2 AAA
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Franklin Electronics
EAN: 0084793994593
Feature: 260,000 words, 500,000 definitions
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Franklin Electronics
Manufacturer: Franklin Electronics
Model: SCD-1870
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Franklin Electronics
Release Date: 2003-07-15
Studio: Franklin Electronics
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Features
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260,000 words, 500,000 definitions
500,000 word Thesaurus
ClariSpeech pronounces every word and definition
Large Screen, portrait & landscape
Compatible with eBooks, and eNews
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Summary: Brilliant Little Device
Comment: The Merriam Webster SCD-1870 is a great portable dictionary for many reasons:
1) It is quick and easy to use.
2) Its games are great pastimes and are very educational.
3) Its LCD screen is visible and easy to read.
4) Its buttons are big, but slightly hard to press.
5) Its dictionary and thesaurus are very informable and not skimpy on information.
6) The Columbia Concise Encyclopedia is a very useful feature. Buy it as an accessory!
Final remark: Highly reccommended!! Franklin really outdid themselves! If you want the ULTIMATE Reference Suite, get the Franklin SCG-1870
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but there's better
Comment: I'm a big electronic dictionary geek - I own four of them. Two of them for languages (Japanese and Chinese) and two for English. I'm a writer and I am constantly reading and looking up words, and I like to be able to do away from my computer because honestly, who wants to lug around a laptop when they just want to take a book out to a coffee shop?
I own both the Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate Speaking Dictionary (with a Concise Columbia Encyclopedia card) and the Sharp PW-E550. I owned the Merriam-Webster first, then got the Sharp, and actually bought the Seiko Concise Encyclopedia Britannica for a while before I returned that one. Here's a comparison between the MW and the Sharp, with a brief mention of the Seiko:
- Both the MW and the Sharp have a similar range of definitions. There are some words I could find in the MW I couldn't in the Sharp (McGuffin), and there are some I could find in the Sharp but not the MW (phylogenic, the Bowery). I find that the MW tends to have slightly more in-depth definitions and the Sharp one reads a bit more concise and colloquial. The Sharp provides examples of usage while the MW doesn't. Both have good etymologies.
- The MW doesn't have a visual pronounciation key, while the Sharp does. That's because the MW speaks out the words. This to me is kind of silly because you don't always want to hear the words out loud (like, in a library, or just about anywhere public), even if there's a headphone jack. What became problematic was that the speaking gizmo on my MW broke after a few months, and now I can't even hear the pronounciation even if I want to. I just hear a bunch of static when I hit the "pronounce" button.
- The Sharp will list all the words possible with each input of a letter (i.e., if you punch in "a" it'll list all the words that begin with "a," then if you punch in "b" it'll list all the words that begin with "ab" until you get to the word you want. The MW waits until you input all the letters and hit "enter," then it searches until it finds something. It takes about a second or two for it to find something that is in its dictionary, but if you punch in something with the wrong spelling or it just doesn't know, it'll take a while, maybe five seconds, which gets kind of exasperating, especially once you get used to the Sharp.
- The Sharp, when you turn it on, displays exactly what you had when you last had it on. The MW always starts with the same default screen. I love this ability, though there's one slight inconvenience - if you had entered letters before you turned off the Sharp the letters will still be there when you turn it back on, meaning you have to hit "clear" to start a new search. The Sharp has a memory feature, that goes back some forty or so of your last entries, while the MW doesn't.
- The buttons on the MW are hard and they hurt after prolonged usage. The buttons on the Sharp are pretty soft, which ends up with the opposite problem: you may not push hard enough on them at times or you may push more than one button if you do so hurriedly.
- The Concise Encyclopedia that I got with the MW is extremely painful to use. It's slower than the dictionary and when you do page up or page down it often goes straight to the previous or next entry. Otherwise it provides some decent amount of information at your fingertips. I'm just afraid of the tediousness of it all.
- The leather flip cover for the MW is really flimsy, while the Sharp is neatly self-protecting. I also like how you can open the whole thing 180 degrees, which is something the Seiko can't do. The Seiko only opens up to about 135 degrees, which might seem adequate until you get used to the Sharp.
- The games that come with the MW aren't so great. I like the idea of creating your own wordlist, but it barely takes any, maybe 20 maximum. After playing with them a bit my first week with the MW, I stopped using the game function.
- The Sharp has a grammar guide that I hardly ever use. I suppose it could be handy, but it just feels impractical.
For a long while I carried around both the MW and the Sharp, with Sharp being my first resource then, if I have to, the MW, and if I really have to, the Concise Encyclopedia in the MW. After a while I just ditched the MW and now I only use the Sharp. It is a far better experience, and it's become an indispensible tool. I was excited to check out the Seiko when it came out, but for the price I was quite disappointed. The user experience, while better than the MW, pales compared to the Sharp. The entries in the Seiko are great, a lot of information and depth, but most of the terms in there are in the Sharp anyway, just not with as much detail. For $180, I decided I could just stick with the Sharp for basic concepts on the proper nouns, and head to my laptop when I want more in-depth detail.
Overall, Sharp has converted me. The MW now sits on my bookshelf like the real, paper dictionaries it tried to replace.
Customer Rating:
Summary: An handly dictionary
Comment: It's an handly dictionary, and help a lot when English is not your first language. Since, you can hear how to pronounce the word.
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Summary: Collegiate Dictionary
Comment: I was apprehensive at first about ordering this product. I wasn't sure it would have all the words I wanted to look up. I have yet to find one not included. Works great.
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Summary: convenient dictionary
Comment: The small size and light weight of this dictionary make it easy to carry everywhere, so it is convenient to use. I particular like the feature that allows me to learn a word every time I turn the dictionary on. There are other features, such as games that I don't think are very useful for me. I like the pronunciation feature that helps me learn how to pronounce new words; unfortunately, the sound is kind of hard to discern. The sound is a little not natural and smooth. This dictionary would be better if its covering is made of some metal rather than leather and has a pocket. I have to buy my own pocket to store the dictionary and backup batteries. However, overall I like this dictionary.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Great for students and professionals, this Merriam Webster electronic dictionary provides spoken pronunciations and definitions. A quick and easy reference for over 200,000 words, it has a built-in speaker, a large screen with adjustable type sizes, plus a complete thesaurus with 500,000 synonyms. Fun and convenient, it features word games, phonetic spell correction, an interactive grammar guide and a Rolodex databank to store names and phone numbers. Imported. 5 oz. 5-1/8Lx3-1/2Wx1/2D".
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