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Chopping up books when they're physically too big

229 points · 211 comments · matt_kirkland

  1. goda90 · · focus · HN ↗
    I split a Spanish-English dictionary in half so I could carry around just the English to Spanish part to look up the right words while living in a Spanish-speaking country. In the other direction, I got pretty good at guesstimating the meaning of unfamiliar words based on context and cognate roots, or at least I could get the vibes of what the person was telling me.
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