Definitely worth the money

This is one of the best things I have ever purchased. I was hesitant for a long time because I thought it was too expensive for what it is; especially when I already own the large hard copies of the Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

How wrong I was.

The reasons that this is amazing are as follows:

1: When I am lying on the sofa reading a book and a word crops up that I can't quite get my head round ('fecundity', for example) I can simply reach over to my dictionary and tap in the word, without having to put my book down and pick up and leaf through a huge great dictionary.

This may seem lazy, but the point is this: with a hard back dictionary, a lot of the time I simply wouldn't bother looking things up at all, but would guess (and probably misinterpret) the meaning of the word and possibly the whole section of the book.

2: I read a lot on the Underground on the way to work. There is absolutely no way I would consider taking a huge great book version, therefore this is hugely useful.

So why buy this one as opposed to any other? Because this one has a larger screen, fuller entries and - most importantly - a super-jump function.

This means that you can select words from one entry and automatically jump to the entry for that word. I cannot express the usefulness of this enough.

Plus - it also holds both encyclopaedic references and the etymological/historical origins of the word entries. I'm not sure whether other models do this or not, but both things come in extremely handy.

In conclusion: yes, it IS worth the money. Buy it!