Encyclopædia Britannica is , after 244 years.
I spent many happy hours lost within the pages, an online or digital reference just is not the same.
The Auld Grump
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| Author: | TheAuldGrump [ 03-13-2012, 09:43 PM ] |
| Post subject: | R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
Encyclopædia Britannica is , after 244 years. I spent many happy hours lost within the pages, an online or digital reference just is not the same. The Auld Grump |
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| Author: | Haydn [ 03-13-2012, 09:52 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
got a printed version in 1976. It's still very current today except in electronics. As you say, Auld, it shall be missed. Like you I find the online version a poor substitute for the printed book. But times move on. |
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| Author: | Ghenghis_Ska [ 03-14-2012, 05:59 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | ehisey [ 03-14-2012, 06:13 AM ] |
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It was always nice to have on the shelf, I used to have a 1800 edition and it was a lovely set of books. |
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| Author: | MelEbbles [ 03-14-2012, 06:47 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
What a bummer--I grew up surrounded by those encyclopedias and I spent many hours just reading through them. I've got a lot of fond memories of those books. |
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| Author: | mproteau [ 03-14-2012, 07:04 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
I have fond memories of them too, but to be honest, my shelves are consumed by these 4th edition hardcovers! My house is only big enough for one massive volume of stuff... |
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| Author: | Talae [ 03-14-2012, 07:24 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
I have always dreamed of having an actual study, or small library. Wall to wall (floor to ceiling) books. An old edition of these plus a newer one would be right at home there. I remember reading these as a kid, but I haven't cracked one in years. |
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| Author: | TheAuldGrump [ 03-14-2012, 11:04 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | yosefbender [ 03-14-2012, 11:40 AM ] |
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| Author: | yosefbender [ 03-14-2012, 11:41 AM ] |
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| Author: | ScrubKai [ 03-14-2012, 01:20 PM ] |
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| Author: | Talae [ 03-14-2012, 02:30 PM ] |
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| Author: | greypilgrim [ 03-14-2012, 05:42 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
I actually SOLD the EB as a member of their local salesgroup back in 1982[?]. We ran on leadcards sent to us from the Chicago office who generated them from persons who had mailed in the "I'm interested - send me more information" postcards. We also ran some booths at trade shows. It was only a few summer months and I only made enough to make expenses before I had to go on to something else. But, ah, the memories... like the time a foreign student at a university wanted the $12,000 green leather ultimate limited edition - but his financial sponsor wouldn't sign off on it! (For that, if I had gotten it, my manager said he would have driven us up to Chicago and hand delivered the order! It was that big of a thing in the salesmen circle.] R.I.P. ol' girl! P.S. I have a (small) collection of encyclopedias... "Is that wierd, or what?" - Mr.Universe One never knows what data is going to be lost in subsequent editions... "Well, there is only so much room in the Book." - Ford Prefect |
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| Author: | xombygod [ 03-15-2012, 03:11 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
It is all good till a solar flare hits, And boom all the electronics are gone. Some kid says dad why do birds fly, Ummm! Paper is better. Damn wikipedia, It is not factual and full of mistakes. |
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| Author: | Skunkape [ 03-15-2012, 04:51 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
I know we're supposed to be moving toward being green and conservation, but I just prefer dead tree products over electronic versions. Now, having a tablet makes me like electronic versions a little better, but there's just something about the feel and smell of a book! |
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| Author: | DeltaIce [ 03-15-2012, 05:23 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | Skunkape [ 03-15-2012, 05:46 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
Ah yes, fire is the bane of books! I've got quite an extensive library myself, mostly sci-fi novels, but I have an old World Book Encyclopedia as part of it! Wish I had bought a Britannica, had the chance years ago, but didn't have the funds at the time! 
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| Author: | xombygod [ 03-15-2012, 12:17 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
It is wonderful to actually have a library. One thing that bothers me is that it is not something you can save if there is a fire or other disaster. Although my library was covered by my insurance, many books had passed out of print. I did have the foresight however to keep the few rare books I had at the bank. Exactly people today forget the value that was place on books, To be able to pass on knowledge, It is amazing to tell my grandson how to make something in my fashion by my hand, As if I am there. Amazing. But today with the internet and the press and mass literacy people do not appreciate how well we have it. 
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| Author: | Haydn [ 03-15-2012, 08:55 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | Talae [ 03-15-2012, 09:50 PM ] |
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| Author: | greyhaze [ 03-16-2012, 01:36 PM ] |
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| Author: | DeltaIce [ 03-17-2012, 10:03 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
[/quote]While I didn't say that origianlly, I will say that I personally have not read every page of my dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias and textbooks. I have read all of the novels but a select few though (the ones in queue to be read).[/quote] ::grinning:: Reference books are of course a different matter. My sister told me I might buy a Kindle and start the process of making my library as much as I can an electronic one instead of one of square footage and walls of bookcases. I could re-purpose a huge room ( don't know what I'd use that space for) but if fire or flood should strike I could just carry out my library in my purse. I like that idea! |
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| Author: | greypilgrim [ 03-18-2012, 04:49 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
@ Talae: My queue of books [and vids] is humongous - it would take me being laid up in the hospital have a year to catch up! (And then everyone here were being so *helpful* by adding a combined treasury of Steampunk novels in another thread...) @ DeltaIce: You'll have to wait for the future technology of eScratchNSniff to get that wonderful real-book smell - but then think of what it would do to the inside of your purse  After using my Britannica last night (first time in a while) to research historical background for a new RPG character, I checked my print date: 1986! Dang! Now I'm wanting to break down and buy this last print edition - only in part to say "I have the LAST Britannica in my collection..." [And for some reason I always want to spell it 'Brittanica'.] |
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| Author: | DeltaIce [ 03-20-2012, 07:59 AM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
To have that leather smell of a book binding I'll just make a leather case for the kindle. 
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| Author: | joydyhee [ 03-21-2012, 01:30 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | DougT [ 03-21-2012, 02:26 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
I have a set of Britannicas that were bought back in 1980. Really like them. Did not keep up the yearbooks, though, so they became more and more outdated as the decades rolled by. A good source of copyright free novels and such is Project Gutenberg. Lots of Wells, Verne, Burroughs, Dickens, Twain, &ca offered. There is a Project Gutenberg Australia that has some books not available elsewhere. The vast majority of the books in electronic form that I have downloaded from Project Gutenberg I already have in paperback and/or hard cover . It is kind of convenient to be able to load them on the Kindle or into some e-reader program and search for specific phrases or names.
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| Author: | DeltaIce [ 03-21-2012, 08:21 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
| Author: | joydyhee [ 03-21-2012, 08:52 PM ] |
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| Author: | SHADOWLORD [ 04-09-2012, 06:48 PM ] |
| Post subject: | Re: R.I.P. Encyclopædia Britannica 1768 - 2012. |
A say day indeed. Another tolling of the death knell for the intelligence and education of Americans. Both my grandparents had sets of encyclopedias. Okay not Britannica, but they were frugal and made due. I remember spending time paging through them. Even learned how to play chess because of them (surprised my father to no end ). *moment of silence*
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