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Title: ...but the very worst thing about it is...
Review: Thinking about this dictionary again after several years, the most basic objection to it suddenly occurs to me: you can't lay it open on a desk! It is a huge book (with huge type, and yawning white spaces) so it's useless as a portable dictionary. But say you want to sit down and do translation with it: the cheap and stiff binding forces you have to hold the book open with both hands...and then let it flop closed while you turn back to the book you were reading or the paper you were writing...then turn away from that and prize open the dictionary again... *OR* you can cut this Gordian knot by breaking the spine in as many places as possible and, in the time between this and when all the pages fall out, special order the Gyldendal or Hippocrene dictionaries. That's the most gratifying option.
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