PalmOne PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus Card (m125, m130, i705 & m500 Series)

Throwback to yesteryear.

Sorry I bought it, it didn't load or play !!!!!

Works as advertised

I have been using Franklin-Bookman Power Dictionaries with Thesaurus and several Bookman Cards for foreign languages for years, and I was very excited to buy this card.The product is good, but I have to admit somehow a little be my disappointment.1) There is no way to jump directly from the Dictionary Entry to the Thesaurus entry and vice versa.2) The Dictionary&Thesaurus load slowly, but you get use to it.3) In case of verbs, the third person singular in present is not available, which is very important for someone who has to struggle with verbs ending.4) Also is missing, the plural form.5) It will be nice if as soon as you begin to enter a word in a text input field, you receive a list of suggested words. From these you can then select the desired word.6) When searching for a word, the spell correction can take over a minute.7) Once you have the definition of a word, but do not understand the meaning of an other word within that definition, you cannot select that word to look at the definition.8) The Palm PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus Card is "read only", so there is no way to add or customize your entry.9) It will nice to know how many words, definitions and thesaurus entries are accessible.Did I scare you? I hope not.Would I buy the card anyway? Of course, I bought it already.If you don't care about what I said, the Palm PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus is otherwise excellent.

This thing is AWEASOME! I alwyas am in situations where people want to know how to define a word. This thing works PERFECTLY! It's also brand new so all the words I know are in it. Nothing is left out. It includes all of those dirty words for you people who have to have a dictionary w/them :-p.For it's size and content i rate this thing 4 stars. Unfortunetly it could do w/some color for you people who have to have Color in everything, like me. It also includes no pictures but thats ok. It loads a little slow like all cards you slip into the expansion slot but yoru talking maybe 5 seconds to open the dic. or thes. which isn't really a big deal.I highly recommend this thing, though if palm wanted it to get 5 stars, they have to work on color.

There are a lot of words listed and it's a handy assortment. The definitions are short and to the point, with pronunciation and a few bits about the roots of the words. Most importantly it has dirty words. Dictionaries that lack dirty words are a pet peeve, pointing to a prudishness that likely affects the overall quality of the dictionary's editing: if they can't trust us to restrain ourselves from drooling and writhing over the excitement of reading poo-poo words, can we trust the editing in other matters?There are some helpful Appendices/Tables for general knowledge (Zodiac signs, metric system, Morse code, and about two dozen others) that can be handy for bar bets or if stranded on an island with a meter stick and an astrologer.The Thesaurus is similarly sleek in content. There aren't any cross-links between words that I could find, but that's a nicety, not a necessity. Overall I'm pleased with the purchase. Alas, there's no color, and no illustrations, so if you need to insult someone with: "In the dictionary next to 'stupid' there's a picture of you!" carry around a regular book to point at.

Palm is now selling the 11th edition of Merriam Webster dictionary, and with rebate, the cost is less than this one. It might even be in color.

It's slow to use, but is miles ahead of any alternative I've found. If it's thorough content you're after, it's hard to beat ~500,000 headwords (if I remember correctly) with complete definitions, pronunciations & etymologies. I got it on a lark & have been amazed at how handy it is to always have the complete M-W Collegiate dictionary in my pocket -- I use it constantly.Other than a 15 second start-up time, and an interface designed more for a novel than a dictionary/thesaurus (though still full-featured), the only other complaint I have is an undocumented (as fas as I've found) requirement that there be somewhere around 600K of free memory in the device. Otherwise it dumps you unceremoniously back into whatever app you used last.I'm planning to get a Sony Clie, and the only thing holding me back is the lack of dictionaries as thorough as this one that don't require SD/MMC slots.