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Posted on 4/15/20 at 12:59 am to BabyTac
Evidently they still produce the actual books 
That's the 2020 edition.....I've not seen a set in a house in a long time
That's the 2020 edition.....I've not seen a set in a house in a long time
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:16 am to BabyTac
They make them but it must only be some libraries buying a single set every couple years at this point
The entries really only average at best a paragraph of information. The entire set is like 15,000 pages. Wikipedia is hundreds of millions of pages.
Sources of that information worse than even Wikipedia today when you actually think about it and really most of it wasn't even sourced at all. You just trusted they were right because well they don't lie.
Really not useful at all. Other than old ones to go back and look at where they were actually wrong.
The entries really only average at best a paragraph of information. The entire set is like 15,000 pages. Wikipedia is hundreds of millions of pages.
Sources of that information worse than even Wikipedia today when you actually think about it and really most of it wasn't even sourced at all. You just trusted they were right because well they don't lie.
Really not useful at all. Other than old ones to go back and look at where they were actually wrong.
This post was edited on 4/15/20 at 1:20 am
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:22 am to BabyTac
I read most of the World Book before I was in HS thanks to years of boredom in study hall 
The real encyclopedia fanboys go hot for this 'un here:
The real encyclopedia fanboys go hot for this 'un here:
quote:
The Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition (1910–11), is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time.
quote:Yes, the irony of a Wikipedia link about encyclopedias
Some articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time, such as Edmund Gosse, J. B. Bury, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, Peter Kropotkin, T. H. Huxley, James Hopwood Jeans and William Michael Rossetti. Among the then lesser-known contributors were some who would later become distinguished, such as Ernest Rutherford and Bertrand Russell.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:24 am to LordSaintly
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It's $1300.00. Who the hell would buy that?
frick that noise. For that price, you can buy a nice rifle then point it at people and demand they give you the information you require.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:41 am to Kafka
quote:Now I have to know if the late editions of encyclopedias have an entry about Wikipedia.
Yes, the irony of a Wikipedia link about encyclopedias
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:43 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Is this a biggest dork competition? Because we had TV (cable even!) and I read the encyclopedia on sunny days.
On rainy days I would spend all day reading them. We didn't have TV. They were fascinating as hell to my Elementary school mind.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 6:08 am to LordSaintly
How much was a set back in the 80's?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 6:22 am to Kafka
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Yes, the irony of a Wikipedia link about encyclopedias
Posted on 4/15/20 at 6:33 am to eScott
I cut the center out of the pages in the M book to hide my weed. Try that with your fancy Wikipedia.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 6:38 am to YF12
I believe EBRPL buys a new print set for every branch each year.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:10 am to BabyTac
I have a set my parents wanted to throw away. When society collapses. I will have all the knowledge.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:16 am to BabyTac
Do you even Funk & Wagnalls, bro?
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:27 am to LordSaintly
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Brittanica
The Rolls Royce of encyclopedias.
Had a set. They were great.
Miss that they don't have physical books anymore.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:32 am to LordSaintly
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It's $1300.00. Who the hell would buy that?
You can buy prior year sets for a $2-500, but still same point. Some kids still like books and I could easily see it as a way to lessen screen time on the elementary aged kids
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:35 am to BabyTac
I recently bought a set at a library sale for $10.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 7:46 am to BabyTac
If you want to know what the temperature really was in the 30's you need to open up an old set and see the truth.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 8:05 am to LordSaintly
It may come in handy after revisionists finish editing the Internet.
Posted on 4/15/20 at 8:15 am to 200MPHCOBRA
I have a US history textbook from the 1920s. Fascinating to read their take on income tax and the Civil War.
Income tax was a new temporary measure to pay the debt from the Great War. A "man of modest means would only pay 3-7%".
Income tax was a new temporary measure to pay the debt from the Great War. A "man of modest means would only pay 3-7%".
Posted on 4/15/20 at 1:41 pm to RougeDawg
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I have a US history textbook from the 1920s. Fascinating to read their take on income tax and the Civil War.
Man...as someone who went to State to study history from the Southern perspective (grew up in the upper midwest) that would fascinate the heck out of me even now. Even in high school it was a straight/black & white (no pun intended) "civil war was fought over slavery from day 1" teaching.
To the subject, my grandma worked as an elementary school library assistant (principal was her best friend growing up so very secure job) her whole life. When it came time for them to buy an updated set, she was given the old set. She actually got a ton of stuff that would fascinate me anytime I spent the night there. They had this baby blue handheld thing where you could slide in normal sized slides...one of the first versions of what is now considered VR (despite being for just 1 eye.)
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