Others say...

"A fascinating read!"
I carried this wonderful tome along on my last backpacking trip in the Sierra. Boy, was I glad I had brought it! We got stuck in snow in one of those trailside shelter thingys for three days. My significant porter and I took turns bashing each other all over with it, not for any kind of kinky thrill, mind you, simply just to fend off cold and boredom. After we had done with breaking it in, we opened it to the letter M and used it as a pillow-for-two! It was really just serendipity that I brought it along in the first place--we had decided to leave the gaz backpacking stoves at home in order to practice our foraging skills. Since I had a little extra space I tucked it under the rubber chicken and ankle weights.
On the third day, we decided to use some of the grammar appendix to kindle a little warm-up flame. During snowbound days, we read definitions to each other. I recommend this book for any serious camper.

"Dictionary review"
I bought this unabridged dictionary for my grandson who is going into high school. I knew about the product before I purchased it on Amazon. Amazon's price was the best, service great as usual, and delivery arrived when they said it would.

The whole transaction gets 5 starts *****!

"Webster Dictionary"
I have had the second edition of Webster's International Dictionary for some 45 years and thought it was time to update to the relative new third edition. The new edition is a little smaller and lighter mainly due to the type of paper. Also there are mores entries in it. A great buy for all the wordsmiths out there.

"Having a Webster's Dictionary Easily Accessible"
I had been using the online Webster's but I found the listings incomplete and it was a bit of a nuisance to have to go online to get a listing. It is nice having the dictionary resident in my various computers. On the down side, I guess I expected to see more visuals, more graphics, more bells and whistles with every entry but perhaps it is the words I am requesting that are not conducive to such listings. I doubt if I would have purchased it without getting it back from my university professional fund since it is a bit pricey at roughly $50.

"Don't be too literal-minded: Reason for THIS dictionary is a great one, but is not to be found by doing accounting"
This is the ONLY dictionary that has satisfied me. Don't get literal-minded here. Word counts sell dictionaries to the overly-literal-minded American. More words --> better dictionary? Not really. In case after case after case even other biggish Websters (big because they ramped up word count) seem to never capture the IDEA of the word. In fact, the dictionaries almost admit it in their preferatory material (a dictionary is about definition, not connotation). If you have NO idea what a word means, MAYBE the definition will help. What all the other dictionaries FAIL to do is answer this: "you know, I wonder why I picked that word?" This big Webster's Third New International is GUARANTEED TO TELL YOU WHY YOU INSTINCTIVELY PICKED THAT WORD THAT YOU DID. (Obviously I am adressing a native English speaker in this review; non-native speakers: if the weight of this book is not unweildly for you, sure you should get it too.) Today's example: revelatory. I said MathCAD (math software) is motivated by its revelatory aspect. In an Excel spreadsheet all your crazy numbers and formulas can be any kind of stuff -- and noone would be the wiser, but in MathCAD all your computations are made manifest and explicitly disclosed. But the examples are numerous. Just time after time after time I find all other dictionaries dissappointing. It's like I want to add to the entry -- "see one uses this word to make a distinction or in these sorts of uses; if you want to emphasize THAT notion instead, this is not the word, THIS is the word." This big Websters International Unabridged has all that stuff that I would add to the entry already there.