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I bought the Casio Ex-word XD-GP9700 from Max and Tomoko of White Rabbit Press. I bought it in Japan, but they ship to the United States. I also bought Casio's Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary CD-ROM to add an additional dictionary to it. The combination is pretty excellent. I use the dictionary everyday in class and I take it with me everywhere I go. You can write in any unfamiliar kanji you want to look up with the pen stylus. And this model is fairly forgiving if you use incorrect stroke order.

If you do purchase an Ex-word model, I highly recommend the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary add-on for the simple fact that when you look up a word in English, most of the time you're going to get some Kanji back instead of all hiragana. But if you have the Kanji Learner's Dictionary installed, you can highlight, jump, and lookup the readings of any Kanji you don't recognize in the definition.