Are there good and extensive hand-held electronic dictionaries
available here or abroad and what is the range of price? I am not a
beginner and would like a truly comprehensive instrument.
Thank you

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Request for Question Clarification by leapinglizard-ga on 02 Dec 2004 21:07 PST

As I mentioned in my comment below, I have not found a good standalone
Italian-English electronic dictionary. However, there are BookMan
expansion cards with French-English and Italian-English dictionaries
on them. You cannot expect these cards to be quite as comprehensive as
a standalone product, but I believe they offer reasonable coverage. In
my own BookMan, which has the Merriam-Webster Collegiate built-in, I
use the German-English dictionary and King James Bible expansion
cards. Both are simple but useful.

http://www.franklin.com/estore/details.aspx?ID=BQF-2025
Franklin: French-English BookMan card

http://www.franklin.com/estore/details.aspx?ID=BQL-2066
Franklin: Italian-English BookMan card

To use the expansion cards, you would have to use a base model such as
the following.

http://www.franklin.com/estore/details.aspx?ID=MWD-1450-04

As an alternative, you could invest in a low-end PDA and buy
downloadable translating dictionaries for it.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=986537&CatId=227
TigerDirect: Palm Zire 21

Is this an adequate answer to your question?

leapinglizard

Franklin makes a French-English dictionary with definitions from
Larousse. I haven't used this particular model, but I have owned a
Franklin BookMan for several years and am very pleased with it.

  http://www.franklin.com/estore/details.aspx?ID=BFQ-450

They appears to have no similar product for Italian.

leapinglizaRd