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Something just reminded me of encyclopedias, and I was surprised to see the Brittanica still sells bound print ones (for a whopping $1400).

Did you ever own a set of encyclopedias? Do you now own encyclopedias?

We owned Funk & Wagnells, which we bought copy by copy at safeway or something. They were lame. But, I always liked big heavy encyclopedia volumes in the library, and would almost like to have a set now, even though they are outdated artifacts of olde

― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 21 December 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Britannica

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

brown.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I've got a Children's Britannica that my dad bought when we were kids. My dad's still got the grown-ups' Britannica, he's offered them to me but I've got nowhere to keep them at the moment. They're beautiful books, even if their intended function has been more or less superseded.

― Fat Lady Wrestler (Modal Fugue), Thursday, 21 December 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I somehow inherited the World Book set that my parents provided for my brothers and me back in the day. Being the youngest, it was pretty dated by the time I got to high school, but I used it to no end. The books are still good for historical references and look nice and all on the shelf - most definitely used though - probably the one possession from childhood that's still around. Many texts have come and gone, but these books, worthless to most, are keepers to me.

― Wench (jim wentworth), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Britannica, wonderful.

― editio princeps (pato.g27), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://blogs.citypages.com/jwalsh/images/TX539_Sobol_Encyclopedia%5B1%5D.jpg

― ian (orion), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

We had a very nice set of Collier's Encyclopedia when I was a kid, but they got ruined by water damage in the 80s. A couple of years ago when I was buying up old books to make a fortune on the internets, I wound up with three crappy old sets. One, incomplete, got tossed. The other two got donated to the Salvation Army.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Friday, 22 December 2006 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm more apt to associate the word "encyclopedia" with Encyclopedia Brown these days than the real definition

― akm (akmonday), Friday, 22 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I believe the thread title should be "Encyclopediae"

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 22 December 2006 04:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Encyclopaediae

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 December 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

In Cyclops' beady eye

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 22 December 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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