An online dictionary is (IMHO) something else, different from a "real", paper one. I use maybe 95% of the times an online one (as I need it while reading onlin

An online dictionary is (IMHO) something else, different from a "real", paper one. I use maybe 95% of the times an online one (as I need it while reading online), as it is fast, handy and what not, but flipping the pages, interrupting/delaying the search because while flipping you spotted an unusual word that you want to look at, seeing which words are right before and right after the one you were looking for, to me remains a pleasure. I would also say that the online/digital one while definitely faster and more efficient if you want to look at a given word is somehow less "persistent", I mean (not being a native English speaker) that for some reasons when I learn a new word and look for it online I tend to forget it sooner then when I am reading a (paper) book, find a new word and look it on the (paper) dictionary, maybe it is just me or it is the increased time needed to get up, get the dictionary, look for the word, but I tend to better retain it.