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One thing that I’ve noticed while using the iBooks app is that the built in dictionary is impressively useful just by the sheer force of the fact that it’s in the right place when you need it. Turns out context is everything. How useful when you don’t know a word and there’s a dictionary right there if you just hold your finger on that word.

This is the kind of book I wish I’d had when I was a kid still in school. How much greater a vocabulary it’d have been possible to acquire had I had this tool then ;)

However… Changing the language to French or some other language illustrates that the iBooks dictionary is not multilingual or polylingual. The project gutenburg books that come for free wit the iBook store are in different languages than English as well as English and I’ve studied a couple of these so imagine what a language learning tool it could be if the iBooks app allowed multiple language dictionaries right there in the app.