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> Why is there no OED app (just the Shorter one ... which is awful)? It's some combination of OUP wanting to push the Oxford Dictionary of English and OUP want

by leoc 4y ago

> Why is there no OED app (just the Shorter one ... which is awful)? It's some combination of OUP wanting to push the Oxford Dictionary of English and OUP wanting to go on charging $100 a year for individual OED access https://public.oed.com/help/how-to-subscribe/ https://public.oed.com/help/how-to-subscribe/ . Though indeed for that kind of money you might think you were owed an app instead of just a web interface. There can't yet be a free version because no edition of the OED is fully out of copyright yet ... not just yet, at least.

mdaniel 4y ago
From the linked page, they allege the data itself would be 540M, plus another 60M or so for app-framework (and 300M for social media trackers) so that'd likely be bigger than one might wish for an app > Number of megabytes of electronic storage required for text: 540 It's likely they're using "pdf scan size" or such, because I find their number suspicious
- Bud 4y ago
  On the contrary, if the OED were available as an app for any reasonable price, or even a somewhat-unreasonable price, I would download it instantly for my phone and tablet. 600MB or even 900MB of storage would be well-spent.
  - leoc 4y ago
    GTA: San Andreas or Genshin Impact will consume several times that space on iOS, indeed.
- dredmorbius 4y ago
  At 8 characters per word, plus a space, and 59 million words, 540 MB checks out: You have: 540 MB / 59 million You want: bytes * 9.1525424 / 0.10925926 I have a considerable collection of digital books, many in PDF form. A typical book tends to run 1--5 MB in straight text. Scanned pages or image-heavy content can run to 30--300 MB for 200--1500 pages or so.
linguae 4y ago
At one point it was possible to purchase the OED on a CD-ROM (https://www.oed.com/page/buy/loginpage https://www.oed.com/page/buy/loginpage), though in recent years the CD-ROM version has been discontinued in favor of subscriptions to the Web version. Every now and then I search eBay to see if anybody is selling their copy of the OED on CD-ROM. For now I have the Shorter OED app for Windows 10, which suffices for me.

by leoc 4y ago

mdaniel 4y ago

From the linked page, they allege the data itself would be 540M, plus another 60M or so for app-framework (and 300M for social media trackers) so that'd likely be bigger than one might wish for an app > Number of megabytes of electronic storage required for text: 540 It's likely they're using "pdf scan size" or such, because I find their number suspicious

Bud 4y ago
On the contrary, if the OED were available as an app for any reasonable price, or even a somewhat-unreasonable price, I would download it instantly for my phone and tablet. 600MB or even 900MB of storage would be well-spent.
- leoc 4y ago
  GTA: San Andreas or Genshin Impact will consume several times that space on iOS, indeed.
dredmorbius 4y ago
At 8 characters per word, plus a space, and 59 million words, 540 MB checks out: You have: 540 MB / 59 million You want: bytes * 9.1525424 / 0.10925926 I have a considerable collection of digital books, many in PDF form. A typical book tends to run 1--5 MB in straight text. Scanned pages or image-heavy content can run to 30--300 MB for 200--1500 pages or so.

linguae 4y ago

At one point it was possible to purchase the OED on a CD-ROM (https://www.oed.com/page/buy/loginpage https://www.oed.com/page/buy/loginpage), though in recent years the CD-ROM version has been discontinued in favor of subscriptions to the Web version. Every now and then I search eBay to see if anybody is selling their copy of the OED on CD-ROM. For now I have the Shorter OED app for Windows 10, which suffices for me.