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  2. List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary

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    The following writers contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary. Chief editors. Chief editors of the OED [1] Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge:

  3. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English. Special edition in two volumes (USSR, 1982). 7th, 8th and 10th editions of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948.

  4. Digital textbook - Wikipedia

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    A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts . Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform.

  5. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]

  6. Book - Wikipedia

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    A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover; they were preceded by several earlier formats, including the scroll and the tablet.

  7. Textbook - Wikipedia

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    The report called on all parties within the industry to work together to find productive solutions, which included a movement toward open textbooks and other lower-cost digital solutions. Textbook prices are considerably higher in law school. Students ordinarily pay close to $200 for case books consisting of cases available free online.

  8. Advanced learner's dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The advanced learner's dictionary is the most common type of monolingual learner's dictionary, that is, a dictionary written in one language only, for someone who is learning a foreign language. It differs from a bilingual or translation dictionary, a standard dictionary written for native speakers , or a children's dictionary.

  9. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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    The digital book format originally used by Sony Corporation. It is a proprietary format, but some reader software for general-purpose computers, particularly under Linux (for example, Calibre's internal viewer [2]), have the capability to read it. The LRX file extension represents a DRM-encrypted e-book. More recently, Sony has converted its ...