5 of 6 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very Slow, 2002-09-27
The content is good, but the programming is sloppy.
It is unacceptably slow and there is no link from the Dictonary Side to the Thesaurus side.
28 of 29 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your money on this product!, 2002-08-20
I bought this product because it has Palm name on the product. What a mistake. It takes 12-16 seconds to just open up the application! Out of curiousity, I tried other dictionary software on a memory card and most of them don't take more than 5 seconds to open up. Also, searching for word in this product is a major problem. You need to know the exact spelling of the word. And, it takes another five seconds for the software to find each word. Maybe my Palm M505 is too slow for this software, but I doubt that's the reason. The only good thing about this product is that the content is from Merriam-Webster, if you can stand the wait time!If you are ever thinking about buying this product, I urge you to reconsider. There are other products that you can get, and Palm should be ashamed to put out a product with such poor performance. Since there is no way to try the product out before buying and it's hard to return the product once you have opened the package, I feel that most customers will be fooled by the sweet little Palm logo. But, please do reconsider.
3 of 8 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very functional and informative, 2002-02-21
this is the main reason why I went with a Palm handheld rather than with the Sony models, which have palpably better picture.The only idiosyncrasy preventing me from awarding this little pack a five star rating is that it's rather slow, but this is expected. Overall this is a fine product and it sure beats carrying an incomplete little pocket dictionary or a prodigious, bulky, complete edition of Merriam-Webster's tome. Oh, and there's also a thesaurus too, but I never use it, so it would have been better for users like myself if there were a separate card option that contained the dictionary only.
1 of 58 customers found the following review helpful:
 purchased, 2002-02-09
I can't do an honest review. I have purchased not received as of yet. All cards thus far have been a five,no problems.
But its not fair to the public.
Asking for a review from somebody whom hasn't used it yet.
I have been asked to do this in the pass. I wished I hadn't.
Do you think its fair to the public?
Like selling a car,knowing there may be some problems.
If you sell as is,you're in the clear. By doing this,they can't come back on you. Nor take you to court.
20 of 26 customers found the following review helpful:
Good for your personal library. It can be better., 2002-01-13
I have been using Franklin-Bookman Power Dictionaries with Thesaurus and several Bookman Cards for foreign languages for years, and I was very excited to buy this card.
The product is good, but I have to admit somehow a little be my disappointment.1) There is no way to jump directly from the Dictionary Entry to the Thesaurus entry and vice versa.
2) The Dictionary&Thesaurus load slowly, but you get use to it.
3) In case of verbs, the third person singular in present is not available, which is very important for someone who has to struggle with verbs ending.
4) Also is missing, the plural form.
5) It will be nice if as soon as you begin to enter a word in a text input field, you receive a list of suggested words. From these you can then select the desired word.
6) When searching for a word, the spell correction can take over a minute.
7) Once you have the definition of a word, but do not understand the meaning of an other word within that definition, you cannot select that word to look at the definition.
8) The Palm PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus Card is "read only", so there is no way to add or customize your entry.
9) It will nice to know how many words, definitions and thesaurus entries are accessible.
Did I scare you? I hope not. Would I buy the card anyway? Of course, I bought it already. If you don't care about what I said, the Palm PalmPak Dictionary/Thesaurus is otherwise excellent.
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