Will electronic dictionaries kill printed dictionaries?(2) Thirdly, using the electronic dictionary is one of the methods to protect environment. As we all know, environmental pollution is rather serious at present, which is including air pollution, water pollution and so on. Overcutting trees are harmful to environmental protection. The printed dictionary which is made of wood is consuming the wood. Generally speaking, a ton of paper needs to consume seventeen trees. Besides, the printed dictionaries can’t be used once they have got wet. What’s more, this material which the printed dictionary is made of creases easily, and then the content in the dictionary can’t be identified easily. On the contrary, the electronic dictionary solves these disadvantages to a certain extent. What’s the most important point is that the electronic dictionary can be recycled. Fourthly, not only does the electronic dictionary save time, but also it can save place. When you look up in the traditional dictionary, at first, you have to find which part the first letter is in. And then, you continually find the rest of letters page by page, word by word. It’s waste a lot of time. But if you check the word in electronic dictionary, you only have to type the every letters. And the screen will show up the information of the word you checked. So it can save you much time and have much time to check another word. In addition, a traditional dictionary such as Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary takes up much of place. However, the electronic dictionary just needs a small room. Most important of all, most entries of an electronic dictionary are comparatively updated. The social updates every day and many new words are appeared. And it’s necessary add up the new words. But it’s impossible to add up the new words into the printed dictionary. We can’t wash out the whole dictionary for adding up a few words. It will waste a large number of paper. But it’s easy to add up the new words into the electronic dictionary by updating the software version. From above, we can predict that the electronic dictionary will be instead of the printed dictionary in the future. I think the electronic dictionary companies will improve their technology to appeal to more and more people. For the convenience and usefulness of the electronic dictionary, the electronic dictionary will kill the printed dictionary.