I just dropped 26,000 yen on a shiny new Casio Ex-Word XD-SW6400 , just in time for me to return to Canada for this year's hackathon . So now I can study in style during my trip.
I've just spent a bit of time playing around with it and exploring its features, challenging as I can't read the instructions properly. Luckily I came across a free English quick reference guide made by the nice people over at White Rabbit Press . This makes life a little easier. Kudos to them for making that document free online.
One of the nice things about this dictionary is that I can load new dictionaries onto it. Some much larger Japanese-English dictionaries are available as well as the Kanji Learners dictionary, although they are quite pricey. The only downside to this is that you currently need windoze to load the new files onto the dictionary, which I find somewhat less than thrilling, as I tend try to avoid windows like the plague. It's dissapointing that Casio doesn't support MacOSX at all, at least then I could use Tomoe's laptop to load the dictionaries.
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