If you think it's a slog to read a dictionary, imagine writing one.

Often she would retreat to the house and read a dictionary, emerging to recite definitions in her measured tones.

I read that dictionary like it was a novel, he says.

He likes to read the dictionary for fun, and tends to be cowardly.

He learnt how to play from a hand-book he found at home when he was 14 and trains by reading the dictionary for up to six hours a day.