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(More customer reviews)I am off to Africa, the Taita foothills below Kilimanjaro, where I plan to spend a year or two working on a novel. Can't be lugging my Bartlett's, so I opted for Oxford Quotations on CD. Install it to the hard drive, or onto a flash drive, along with Mr. Webster and the Rand McNally World Atlas and a few other choice references.
Then I discover that Oxford Quotations must be online. Online? I won't even have electricity. I'll be recharging spare laptop batteries by solar panel. Transferring the reference CDs to a flash drive was intended to minimize battery consumption. If there was anything in the marketing material about the quotations being online only, I certainly didn't see it. I thought I was buying a CD of Oxford Quotations, not a CD that simply installs a program for searching for quotes online. I already have an online quote reference, and it is called Google.
This CD is worthless to me.
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Platform:Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XPPublisher:OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESSPackaging:jewel caseThe Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is as impressive erudite enjoyable and educational a tome as you might expect from Oxford. It's the sort of undertaking the press does very well. The first such dictionary as compiled by Oxford was published in 1953 and it's been tweaking modifying and updating it ever since. This new edition the fifth offers well over 20000 quotations from more than 3000 authors. Responding to correspondence from their readers Oxford has restored some material from past editions such as the proverbs and nursery-rhymes section. There's a much more inclusive attention to sacred texts of world religions and 2000 quotations are brand new. Search through all the quotes with this CD.System Requirements:Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP
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