# I'm looking for a good electronic pocket dictionary

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 16, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-electronic-pocket-dictionary/219375 "2003-12-16T19:36:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-looking-for-a-good-electronic-pocket-dictionary/219375/1 "2003-12-16T19:36:41Z")

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I’m spending the year in Austria, and I’m finding that I have to look up an awful lot of words in my dictionary. This presents two problems:

1.) Looking up words in dictionaries takes time and is boring.  
2.) The only dictionary I took with me is a smallish one that hasn’t got nearly as many words as I’d like.

I checked around on the internet and found some little electronic poclet translators that look really good, but I have no idea how good they really are because no one has really reviewed them (that I’ve seen).

What I’m mainly looking for is something with a huge vocabulary that’s easy to use. Something inexpensive would be nice as well. Anyone out there actually use these things?