However, although hand-held dictionaries have limitations, many students still prefer to use them. A survey of 495 students in Hong Kong by Taylor & Chan (1994, cited in Nesi, p. 4)shows that most of them preferred hand-held dictionaries to dictionaries in book form because of the ease and speed of electronic look-up even though they also believed that paper-based dictionaries were more detailed and accurate. This evidently shows that educationalists and lexicographers, who support the development of collocation and pragmatic information in paper-based learners’ dictionaries, seem to have no influence over the design, marketing and purchase of hand-held devices.