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Difference between digital dictionaries and hardbound dictionaries.
2 min readDec 6, 2020
Well, Digital dictionaries and hard bind dictionaries are types of dictionaries. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Digital dictionaries (Advantages)
- Digital dictionaries are very helpful when you need to find a meaning of word in a fast way.
- Many digital dictionaries have an artificial assistant which can tell you how pronounce a word correctly. This feature makes digital dictionaries more select-able than hard bind dictionaries.
- Digital dictionaries cover very less space because you can use them in your smart phone.
- Any person can use digital dictionaries. Weakness of sight is not an issue if your using digital dictionary because you can simply zoom in any word to read that.
- In digital dictionaries, you can mark or save any word without pen.
Digital dictionaries (Disadvantages)
- You can’t use digital dictionaries without electricity.
- Whenever you use digital dictionary you have interact with your device screen which can effect your eye sight.
- Digital dictionaries can decrease your effort to do work which can make you lazy.
hardbound dictionaries (Advantages)
- Hardbound dictionaries can we very helpful. You can take them with you and then you can use them anywhere.
- You don’t need electricity to use them.
- Using hardbound dictionaries improve your searching techniques.
- Your eye sight doesn’t effect by using hardbound dictionaries.
Hardbound dictionaries (Disadvantages)
- You require pen to mark any word in hardbound dictionaries.
- It take a lot more time then digital dictionaries to find a meaning of word in hardbound dictionaries.
- Hardbound dictionaries covers a lot of space than digital dictionaries.
I personal prefer to use digital dictionaries. As the era is modern, we have adopt modern techniques so we can stand in this modern era.