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ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

NO!! They can't get rid of it!
My childhood was spent looking up any question Pa couldn't answer in one of those huge books.
Pa bought the set - no doubt on the never-never - with a made-to-measure bookcase. Anything we (or he) wanted to know we would look up in the Enc. Brit. Yes, it was so much part of our lives that it had a nickname in our house. You could sit with a lovely red volume on your lap and leaf through, coming across all kinds of information you didn't know you wanted until you saw it.
I know the internet is quicker, but Google can't hope to match the Enc. Brit..

4 comments:

  1. It dies seem a shame, but I suppose that in order to hold enough information they now have to be so big and expensive they're just not practical.

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    1. I know, I know! The practicalities of it make sense - mine was just a gut reaction to the loss of a chunk of my childhood!

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  2. Quite agree Patsy. It's very sad, but they just don't belong to the modern era.

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  3. My husband clings to his Oxford English Dictiomary, which takes up yards of bookcase and has writing so tiny you need a magnifying glass. Old habits die hard...

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