I absolutely welcome this new Kindle version of the 2007 edition of a familiar dictionary which will be of great benefit whether you are a student, traveller or in a German speaking country on business. I finally decided on 5 stars but only after much thought particularly taking into account the price and that it is only a "one way" dictionary but recognising its outstanding utility and of course the essential portability of the Kindle.
The underlying Collins dictionary is itself an invaluable resource for contemporary idiomatic German with numerous examples and usages that will cover many situations. It is "Concise" only in the overly modest terminology of British lexicography. It is still a great guide for the novice in dealing with tricky problems of plurals and the "strong" verb forms and beginners who use it regularly will find themselves gradually and painlessly learning new phrases and meanings. The Kindle edition is a model of clarity and spacing, improved on the print version and with added very useful hyperlinks for longer entries on common verbs with transitive, intransitive, and reflexive forms etc.
This Kindle edition is fully integrated with the Kindle and can be set to look up words directly from a text. "Kindleising" a German dictionary is an extraordinary challenge because of the structure of the language. I found the Kindle version unerringly reliable with case endings and plural forms. It manages most common compound nouns pretty well because of the coverage of the underlying dictionary but given the infinite variety of the language there will inevitably be words where the constituent parts must be looked up separately. The Kindle dictionary will not, however, recognise simple separable verbs but will mostly, but not always, pick them up when recombined at the end of a subordinate clause or in past participles or infinitives with -zu- .
Intangible Press are to be congratulated on the considerable achievement in Kindleising this dictionary to such a high standard with such complex material. Further in the tradition of British lexicography Harper Collins could be expected to recognise its status as a true new edition by including an additional Kindle preface setting out the principles of the edition. The Kindle edition of the Collins Concise German-English Dictionary is currently by far the best translation e-dictionary available in the language and probably in any language. It represents a major step forward in the publication not only of e-dictionaries but of e-reference works in general.
**Update June 2012** Just seen that Intelligible Press have considerably reduced the price of this dictionary so I now have absolutely no reservation about the 5 stars. Not just outstanding quality, a bargain as well.
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