It’s still ‘online’ even if you need a subscription!
And you probably have a full access subscription anyway, through your local public library, or maybe your alma mater if you have one, or maybe your employer if it’s a large knowledge organisation.
And you probably have a full access subscription anyway, through your local public library, or maybe your alma mater if you have one, or maybe your employer if it’s a large knowledge organisation.
pull out dictionarybout of shelf, look up word
Vs
Find out which institution I belong to has access to oed (which you’re bound to forget unless you’re in the word smithing business and use oed every day) .
Figure out what contorted method this institution used to log in
Remember your usr / password
Reset usr/ password
Figure out what combination of special characters your institution requires for your password
Look up word
Doesn’t support Firefox/ safari!
Fire up chrome
What are the special characters for the password again?
Reset password, etc
I just went on vacation. As I’m heading out I grab my mirrorless digital camera. Then I remember I’ll need the charger. And the SD card is in the card reader upstairs.
So I said, “f*it”, grabbed a handful film and my OM-1.
I said it was a deeper resource available online. And it is!
You can go into a public library in most western countries and access it for free.
Much as I might like access to the full thing, the book might last me in the home 10-30 years, or life. Now were the sub £20-£30 a year I may well have, while the kids were at school...
It's a great resource to have handy. Personally I set Firefox up with a search bookmark so I can just type 'oed wombat' to look up 'wombat'; if you're not signed in it goes through a quick fill-in-the-library-card-number interstitial and then you're straight at the definition.
Something to look into, soon. Thanks!