If this were a poll,

[--Pete]

Hi,

@Pete, I imagine space is much less limited in electronic form as opposed to the printed dictionaries I consulted. Though I will Google definitions when time is of the essence, I often prefer to look in the physical books because I am likely to run across other intriguing words in the process.

I often do that, myself. Indeed, I've just opened dictionaries at random just to see what interesting words I could stumble upon. But when I need a definition, then I use those on my PDA. It's always with me, the paper dictionaries aren't.

Ok, guilty pleasure when I was younger was the Piers Anthony Apprentice Adept series.

For me it was his Xanth series.

Whoops. If Pier-XANTH-ony is bad, then I'm evil indeed. From my Book Collector db, in alphabetical order (too lazy to sort by series):

Battle Circle
Bearing an Hourglass (Incarnations of Immortality, Book Two)
Centaur Aisle
Chaining the Lady
Chthon
Cluster
Dragon on a Pedestal Mag
Dragon's Gold
Executive (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 4)
Faith of Tarot
For Love of Evil
God of Tarot
Hasan
Heaven Cent
Incarnations of Immortality #7: And Eternity
Incarnations of Immortality, 5: Being a Green Mother
Kirlian Quest
Macroscope
Man from Mundania (Xanth Trilogy, No 3)
Mercenary (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 2)
Mute
Night Mare
Ogre, Ogre
Omnivore
On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality, Bk. 1)
Orn (Of Man and Manta #2)
Ox
Phthor
Piers Anthony: Three Complete Xanth Novels/a Spell for Chameleon/the Source of Magic/Castle Roogna
Politician (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 3)
Pretender
Race Against Time
Refugee: 1 (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 1)
Shade of the Tree
Statesman (Bio of a Space Tyrant, Vol 5)
The Ring ®
Thousandstar
Total Recall
Vale of the Vole (Xanth)
Viscous Circle
Vision of Tarot
Wielding a Red Sword (Incarnations of Immortality/Piers Anthony, Bk 4)
With a Tangled Skein (Incarnations of Immortality (Paperback))


What's scary is that's not even a third of his output -- and he's still going strong.

--Pete