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Harry C (harryjc) wrote: And the thing is it would be legal too.
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Sean Mc Kibbon (sean_mckibbon) wrote: Exactly. And neither does the print edition. Just exchange the words Oxford English Dictionary in this article with Internet Access and all of a sudden you are...
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Whydoncha (getoffmylawn) wrote: Amazon says that the compact edition, the one Cory linked to, has ~2400 pages. Thats the one with the microfiche sized text. I don't think it would scan well ;)
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Ersatz Soubriquet (ersatz_soubriqu) wrote: My solution is to buy the print version, cheaply, at a second-hand bookstore. And my preference would not be the artificially condensed, (comes with a...
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Margaret Horrall (PeggyH) wrote: I'm not in to renting books, even a constantly updated dictionary. While I can see how a kindle, etc would be useful for travel, I don't like the idea of publishers...
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Edward Ripley-Duggan (erduggan) wrote: I do see your point, but the Oxford University Press is not Adobe, Time-Warner, or the gym; it is considered a charitable institution, and is exempt from...
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jemida wrote: here is digital version :- http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/5128182 FREE
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Cynical wrote: What a double-plus good idea!
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TJ Sellari (tjs) wrote: The caption under the photo gets Cory's argument completely wrong: "archiving is incompatible with a world of digital scholarship." It leaves out the most important phrase:...
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Kaleberg (kaleberg7) wrote: I bought a copy of version two on CD from Amazon and it runs fine under Mountain Lion. It isn't particularly Macky, but it seems to have all the important stuff including...
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technogeek (technogeekagain) wrote: erduggan said: When the OUP's fees for access to the standard and definitive English lexicographic work start to become onerous on institutions of learning (and...
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He who must not be named (danegeld) wrote: That's interesting :) It calls for an Araon Schwartz to download the entire thing, reformat it to remove any vestigial copyright in the layout produced by...
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Jorpho wrote: As a writer, my print copies of the OED and HTOED are to me what an anvil is to a blacksmith Really now, I find it questionable that 98% of the 22,000 pages of the OED will ever be of...
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Jeremy Erwin (jerwin) wrote: Some weeks, ago, I was arguing with a particularly silly "sovereign law" advocate who advanced the claim that the "civil rights" protected by the 14th amendment...
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Bill Blank (Kernos) wrote: I have to compact version too. It is outdated and the text too small for my aging eyes even with magnification. It also takes forever to find something. I had a years...
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Bill Blank (Kernos) wrote: Where?
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technogeek (technogeekagain) wrote: Jorpho said: And if one is using language in such a way that a reader would need the OED to make proper sense of it, one must have a very narrow audience indeed....
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technogeek (technogeekagain) wrote: Actually, no, scanning the book wouldn't be legal. While individual facts are not copyrightable, collections of facts are. While the information contained in the...
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Randy Fritz (wrf1984) wrote: You CAN own a marked-down electronic version of the OED: every Mac computer comes with it natively. It is a great thing. You may use the same resource to look up stuff on...
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William_Holz wrote: I've been learning to scowl on win/lose, blast through the framing limits of win/win, an play in the big field of awesome^3 beyond. (I like exponentials) ;) And thanks! I'm digging...
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