"I'm not sure which one to order. If you want to send me a portal link to a recommended version, I would both appreciate and use it."
A reader writes. There's no Kindle version, but if you buy the full-scale 20-volume print set, you get a CD ROM, which would give you the ability to do searches.
ADDED: Here's the CD-ROM version alone... and much cheaper. And there's this "upgrade" to it. (Thanks to the reader who pointed that out.)
AND: A reader writes: "And, the OED online people are very comfortable to deal with — I pay the thirty bucks a month for two or three months and then cancel because I need the money elsewhere and then start up again when I can afford to. Always a simple process, cancelling and then beginning again."