re: Encyclopædia Britannica

I have a 1959 set of World Book encyclopedia and every World Book Annual since 1959.

I don't plan to rid myself if them for this one simple reason. History. These are chock full of history, with recitations, unfiltered through the minds of the woke virus. Simplistic maybe, but the accounting of events and topics is very straightforward and generally w/o political biases, so they make great references to world events that shaped the politics of today.

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chock full of history, with recitations, unfiltered through the minds of the woke virus

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as it should be

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Simplistic maybe

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it's history, not an Op Ed

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he accounting of events and topics is very straightforward and generally w/o political biases,

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as it should be, I've got some old textbooks from a relative that went to hs towards the end of WWII, you'd expect the history, particularly of Pearl Harbor, to be pretty heated and biased, as well as a lot of major events of that war, but it's pleasant to see that the stories were written to report history, not comment or give the writer's opinion of it

We had Worldbook.

I have a set of my Grandparents encyclopedias from the late 1940's. They are pretty cool.

We had World Book because my mom sold them in the 60's.

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Encyclopedia Britannica (or any in-print comprehensive reference work) could/would technically be outdated on multiple subjects the very same day you spent multiple $100s or multiple $1000s on the latest version, that takes up half your bookcase.

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I bought an early 80's Mapsco street atlas when I moved to Dallas. When I found mistakes in it two years later, I took it to the store where i bought it. The guy working there gave me a year newer one at no charge, but told me they had over a 1000 changes in them every year. The one he gave me was already outdated when he gave it to me. It still felt like a win.

I had the Houston and Austin Mapsco's too.

I still look at it online here and there but they frick around with that too.


I was doing some tariff research, and Britannica had an article that said updated 3 days ago, so I read it.



By the end of it they were saying tariffs are why Hitler came into power.


So, everything is corrupted.