For Sale by Owner:

Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes.

Excellent Condition. $200 obo.

No longer needed, got married, spouse knows everything.

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Originally posted by h2oys:
No longer needed, have internet, information can be accessed more efficiently and for free

FIFY

I had a set of those on my garage shelf up until a couple years ago!! Sometimes fun to look at because they were so outdated (inherited them from my grandmother many years before)

My go to for high school research.

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One thing that the encyclopedia has over "the Internet" is that you can read the volumes cover-to-cover and learn stuff that you never suspected existed. I did just that in my teens (the Encyclopedia Americana, my folks couldn't afford the Britannica set), hopefully I retained a little of it, might be useful for my next stint on Jeopardy!

We had the Britannica. All the other kids had the World Book. The World Book had lots of pictures and was on elementary grade level. I think the Britannica was written for college professors. No pictures and impossible explanations. My Dad would not spring for the World Book so I went to the library to do my homework or called friends.

My favorite in that genre is

For Sale: Suzuki GSXR. Less than 100 miles on the clock. Apparently, "Do whatever the hell you want!" doesn't mean what I thought it did...

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
My favorite in that genre is

For Sale: Suzuki GSXR. Less than 100 miles on the clock. Apparently, "Do whatever the hell you want!" doesn't mean what I thought it did...

Love it and I can relate as I came home with a Black Corvette after a similar comment by my wife. She HATED that car.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
My favorite in that genre is

For Sale: Suzuki GSXR. Less than 100 miles on the clock. Apparently, "Do whatever the hell you want!" doesn't mean what I thought it did...

First thing I thought of when I read the title to this thread.

I have a vintage dictionary on the shelf.

How old?

It defines 'computer' as an occupation.

I have a complete Collier's Encyclopedia with many yearbooks on a shelf in my garage.

flashguy

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Originally posted by h2oys:
No longer needed, have internet, information can be accessed more efficiently and for free


I think the time is near where it might be nice to have an old set on hand to know what history used to be.

We had an encyclopedia set at home when I was a kid. I didn't read cover to cover, but I usually found several other interesting topics before I got to what I was looking for.

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Originally posted by h2oys:
For Sale by Owner:

Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes.

Excellent Condition. $200 obo.

No longer needed, got married, spouse knows everything.

My parents bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica as well. High level of information. I don’t know how that they afforded it. However they did all that they could to help me get through college. We were not wealthy by any monetary definition.

Parents bought the Brittanica set, after they both left this world nobody wanted it, so off it went to resale.

Now I have a mahoghany cabinet for an encyclopedia set - wonderful craftsmanship - filled with trashy CD's. Gotta wonder what was the better choice?

Considering Google alters research results and science continues to take the highest bidders grants to prove pet theories, we had a much better grasp of the absolutes of scientific research when bound volumes were a standard reference. Now? Searching the internet for the facts about Covid should be a major indicator of how worthless it can be. Funny how printed volumes of Pfizers research were being suppressed to hide 9 pages with 1,291 vaxx reactions. It took a court action to pry that out of their hand.

Documentation is more often factual in the era of the internet dominated by drive by news media postings about current events. We know this.

I have an old set of World Books too. I plan to hang on to them for the reason Tirod mentioned. They are NOT politically corrected, washed down garbage.

I often thought about doing an AMA and getting the answer from the books just for fun. It would be interesting to compare it to the web results I think.