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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by wiredfool on Friday June 09, 2023 @01:00PM (#36260729)
That's not how you use them. (at least not in my family). It was a read the whole thing deal. So much random knowledge.

We had the WorldBooks, but ran across Encyclopedia Britannica in the school libraries. The Macropaedia was _far_ more in depth than the Micropeadia, or WorldBook at its best.

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Re:I bought the only physical encyclopedia still in print, a... by JohnFen on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:55PM (#36263295)
> It was a read the whole thing deal. So much random knowledge.

Me too. And it taught me a skill that I think was the key to my professional success: learning how apparently unrelated things can give you the key to solving problems or understanding things that are important to you.

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