Dear John,

On books.google.com there is probably, listed, several entries for Childer's
dictionary. Look for the one with "full view". Go to where you read it
online and near the right top of the screen you will see a link for
downloading a full pdf copy. You can also go to openlibrary.org as George
suggested but that download is actually from archive.org. The problem I have
with archive.org is that their pdf files are considerably larger than they
are on Google.

Jim

> Dear Jim,
>
> THanks for your response. However, when I go to the books.google.com
> site and locate the Childers dictionary, I don't see any link where I
> can download the entire book in pdf form. It seems to only allow me
> to browse pages online, and only partially at that. Having an offline
> resource on my laptop would be very useful. Can you send me the
> specific link you downloaded from, please?
>
> Metta,
> John