My favorite app, except for the latest version

I love this app. I dont begrudge a penny that I spent on it, and Im rating it five stars because its simply amazing to have the Oxford Shorter in a handheld form.

But that said… the latest update is terrible! It slows down searching considerably, and though the app still does eventually find the word-entry youre searching for, it is now nearly impossible to look at the word-entries that would be adjacent to it in a physical dictionary. As another reviewer noticed, it is also now very difficult to flip back to the list of search results once youve elected to see a particular word-entry.

I wish the programmers would go back to the old search function, and if they feel the need to improve, they might consider adding a separate "advanced search" function that allows the user to search inside the text of definitions—that would be very useful, and it would make sense if that kind of search function were slower. In the meantime, Ive rescued the deleted previous version of this app from my Trash folder, and Ive restored it to my Ipod Touch.

C. Crain about Shorter Oxford English