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No longer is the iPod for just listening to audio, viewing photos or watching videos. Now it can be used as a dictionary as well. That’s right – Merriam-Webster today introduced a version of their dictionary for Apple’s extremely popular digital audio player.

The Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, which was developed in conjunction with iPod-formatted reading material publisher iPREPpress, is being called the first all text brand-named dictionary for the iPod. This dictionary, which generally costs $14.95, includes 40,000 words and their definitions, a pronunciation guide, abbreviation guide and a “Handbook of Style”.

After purchasing and downloading the dictionary from the iPREPpress Web site, users load into onto their iPod and can search for words through a hierarchical menu and hyperlinked structure. One can listen to their favorite tunes in the background while viewing dictionary entries on- screen.

Other Merriam-Webster iPod formatted titles will also soon be appearing on the iPREPpress site. These include Merriam- Webster’s Pocket Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster’s Rhyming Dictionary for song and hip-hop writers, Merriam-Webster’s Pocket Atlas, and The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations.