I had to take a college course for work, and one of the required books was a physical copy of the dictionary. Since it was required (and since work was paying for it), I begrudgingly bought a copy of it
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Maybe there's a school you can donate it to? I'm thinking elementary school especially, since those kids would likely be too young to have smartphones they can just look stuff up on, and I think I remember some dictionary-using assignments when the rodents were at that level.
lol *I* look things up in a physical dictionary. I've a few specialized dictionaries I use when translating technical/medical/accounting/law stuff. It's not that easy to find those on the internet, there are a few glossaries here and there, but not as complete.
Also, if power goes out, printed stuff is useful to keep on working!
I think it's about keeping certain skills. Nowadays there are children who don't know how to look up a word in a printed dictionary or research stuff in actual books in a library because they find everything online. It's part of the whole "this-younger-generation-is-becoming-lazy-less-skilled-and-impatient-because-they-are-becoming-too-dependant-on-technology" thing older folk are constantly griping about. When I was at Uni we were taught to research online, but we were also made to buy spanish and english dictionaries even though there were online versions of them, simply because they expected us to do the actual work of looking up the words instead of just googling them (and because there are times when you can't use the internet; for instance, when I first started working at one of the studios, I wasn't allowed on the internet for security reasons so I had to bring my printed thesaurus with me until we found a way to let me use the internet without compromising the materials).
Yeah, I agree - donate it to a school! School library budgets are a JOKE and they actually use dictionaries. (Though oddly enough I had TWO requests for a physical dictionary this month while I was at work. I think the tutors made them use them)
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Also, if power goes out, printed stuff is useful to keep on working!
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Good point about if the power goes out though.
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