Searches not only call up websites and images on the same page, but other references, such as Amazon's book search, the Internet Movie Database, and encyclopaedia and dictionary references.

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It is easy to search by word or phrase and skip around on a tablet, or pull up references such as a dictionary or thesaurus.

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